A Blog Pirate: Someone who tries to steal the spotlight from a more successful blog in order to make their blog noticed and to increase their traffic stats.
This is usually done by pointlessly criticizing posts in order to drive traffic to their blog. Most blog pirates surf the “What’s Hot” on the front page of blog hosts (I.E. WordPress.com) hunting their next victim. They also search through the tags pages to see what blogs have the most comments (thus a high level of traffic) and rips into the author of the blog and/or their content. If you have ever crossed a Blog Pirate you will see why they have to steal the spotlight, its usually because their content is not good enough to draw their own crowd and keep them.
Blog Pirates know that most authors will defend their content thus linking to the pirate and driving their readers (traffic) to the pirate’s site, they also know that when people search for key words pertaining to the victim’s blog in Google the searcher will be driven to the pirate’s blog as well, thus attracting extra traffic. Blog Pirates are interested in one thing, signing on to WordPress and immediately going to their daily stats and seeing how many hits they had that day…nothing more, nothing less.
Watch it! You may be hijacked by a Blog Pirate today 🙂
Join the Conversation! Have you ever been attacked by a Blog Pirate? Know anyone else that has? I’ve been attacked and I know others that have been attacked as well.
I think anyone the writes a post about anything to do with Christ is going to get attacked, but sad thing is they are going to be attacked by other Christains. Legalism at its finest. My worship leader and I were talking about legalistic Christains the other day and was wondering why they are so legalistic about every law and commandment in the scripture except the most important one, love your neighbor as you would yourself. Sad. Oh and I’ve never been attacked, my blog is to new, to small, and I’m really a nobody in the grand scheme of things. Peace.
@ Jason, if you put a great article out there that gets attention whether it is “Christian” or not, you will 🙂
I totally agree about the legalism and the loving of the neighbor, its really kind of sad.
I don’t get those, but my husband seems to get quite a few! Must be because his content rocks!
🙂 Just teasing!
Those darn pirates! Argghhh!!
By the way, I love that you filed this post under every tag you had! lol
@ Brad – I thought it was appropriate 🙂
and here I thought this blogging phenom was all about sharing one’s feelings and “keeping a diary” as it were…
Can I rip the fact that you are ripping people who rip on other blogs? What is that called?
Hi Nick,
I was wondering if you could shoot me an email with your contact info that doesn’t apply to events, etc. I wanted to share with you an opportunity with writing and ministry.
Thanks.
what about people who leave comments that are a sales pitch…is that also a pirate?
Nick, I personally havent had any pirate bloggers.. but i have seen enough that its gotten me just a tad frustrated. Especially today on Pete’s blog.
I haven’t had any, but I’ve seen it happen to other people. Lame, lame, lame.
@kb – It is for us innocent bloggers, but the pirates just want the spotlight.
@ CJ – That would make you a Blog Pirate 🙂
@ Samantha – Sure thing!
@ Neely – Yes I think that would qualify them to be a pirate, because they are trying to get traffic to their blog from your blog
@ Adam – I agree, there are certain people on Pete’s blog that are pointless to even talk to, but the one yesterday on the lottery ticket was definitely a Pirate
@ Claire – Yep!
I know what you mean ever since that Pastor Steve Anderson posted a comment on my blog a while back, I started losing my readers:) (all 2 of them) I don’t know if I am one or not though…all I can say is check out http://www.trevorkerr.blogspot.com and check out:)
I try and steal from Brandiandboys all the time, but all her minions are to loyal
I’m glad someone finally came up with a name for these suckers!
HAHA, I have had folks post my stuff (which to me is cool) but never heard the term “Blog Pirate”. Will be coining that word quite a bit.
I love that you have people posting about there blog in your blog pirate post. Interesting.