{"id":379,"date":"2010-03-31T07:26:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-11-09T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T23:08:12","slug":"beware-of-bogus-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/beware-of-bogus-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Of Bogus Tips!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-9055632105156461\";\n\/* Half Banner for Blogs *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8550216682\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nAs part of my ongoing search for songwriting websites and blogs, I have a Google Alert for &#8220;songwriting tips&#8221;.\u00a0 Whenever anything is posted whether it&#8217;s news or a new blog post, I get an email with a link to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7550732@N07\/4414328293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Songwriting contest\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2759\/4414328293_e54833f9ef_m.jpg\" alt=\"Songwriting contest\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7550732@N07\/4414328293\">ici et ailleurs<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It struck me recently that I might be reading the same thing over and over again, but I couldn&#8217;t remember where.\u00a0 The only clue I had was that there was always a link to a website selling a Takamine guitar and another one called Solobis which is about making money blogging.<\/p>\n<p>So I did a Google search using one phrase from the article and found that there were 69 blogs with the same article!\u00a0 You can check for yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=%22Despite+the+fact+that+songwriting+is+often,+if+not+always%22&amp;hl=en&amp;filter=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The web has always been a place where you have to take what you find and what you read with a grain of salt, but this new way of making money blogging just disappoints me.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the article is fine.\u00a0 But the whole idea is to get you to buy something, not to help you write better songs.<\/p>\n<p>You can count on this website to always have original articles that you will find nowhere else, and the websites that I recommend in my <a href=\"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?page_id=13\">links<\/a> section are the same.\u00a0 There are no duplicate articles with a hidden agenda to &#8220;make money blogging&#8221;.\u00a0 So what I recommend to you is to subscribe to your favourite blogs (including mine!) and support the people who really are trying to help you along your songwriting path.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/40f910ba-d06c-4a26-9572-c149d51e9275\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=40f910ba-d06c-4a26-9572-c149d51e9275\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my ongoing search for songwriting websites and blogs, I have a Google Alert for &#8220;songwriting tips&#8221;.\u00a0 Whenever anything is posted whether it&#8217;s news or a new blog post, I get an email with a link to it. 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