The Most Haunting and Profound Blogging Advice Series: An Introduction

I'm launching a 10-part series on the most haunting and profound blogging advice that I've picked up on from fellow, more established bloggers in my five months or so of blogging.

This won't be your typical blogging advice series--"how to use Digg" or "this affiliate marketer is the best" or "how to increase your Adsense revenue"--because it's a much more philosophical, yet highly practical, look at ten powerful insights on blogging that we should all probably keep in mind constantly and should inevitably elevate our blogging to a higher level if heeded.

I chose to call it "haunting" and "profound" because this is the advice that regularly crops up in my mind whenever I'm about to write a post or thinking about how to maximize my blog's purpose.

According to Dictionary.com,

Haunting means: remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten.

and

Profound means: originating in or penetrating to the depths of one's being.

Thus, I'm calling it The Most Haunting and Profound Blogging Advice Series because, as I thought about it, these are probably the 10 bits of advice that have affected me the most profoundly, that have haunted me continually, that have stayed with me ever since I came across them--and they're the ones that I feel a need to implement.

I'm styling this series similar to my Writing Advice From the Greats Series--I'm going to feature a quote or idea from an individual blogger or bloggers and then explore that advice, examining what the advice means at its fundamental level and then how to use it practically so that you can become a more effective blogger.

I'm not much on blogging about blogging--it gets quite boring quite fast for me--but I realized that I'm constantly referring to these bits of blogging advice whenever I'm thinking about a post or my blog itself, so I thought it would make for an interesting series. Plus, you'll get to see what bloggers have most influenced me so far.

I'll let you in on this much: the bloggers I'm featuring are Tim Ferriss, James Chartrand, Harrison McLeod, Skellie, Dosh Dosh, Michael Masterson, Matthew Keegan, and perhaps a few others. We'll see how it goes. There might even be an eleventh bonus article.