That original famous saying about imitation being flattery were words written by Charles Caleb Colton.  If I believe those words then I guess I should be flattered by today’s events.

As I am trying to build some buzz for this site I have been making the usual rounds of self-promotion (how NOT to self-promote is a different post still in queue) I have made a couple of posts on some of the forums that I visit on the web. One of these was the forum at EasyWordpress.com. That site is run by Gobala. He is better known as “The Wordpress Guy” He has a lot of great material available on Wordpress on how to develop a successful Wordpress blog. In fact, the current theme for this site was created by him. I made a post on his forum (where I am a paid member) directed toward users who might be new to blogging and might appreciate a site where people tell them what NOT to do, like this site does.

Anyhow, this morning I get a bulk email from Gobala asking me to come see his recent post on his blog about his blogging mistakes and how it almost cost him a fortune. So I visited this post:

http://www.gobalakrishnan.com/10-silly-mistakes-even-internet-marketing-experts-make.php

Now, it might be purely coincidental, but a part of me thinks that Gobala saw my post on his forum, visited this site, saw all of your great comments and thought, not a bad idea Papa Bear!

Not that there is anything wrong with that. As they say, “There is nothing new under the sun” especially true when talking about the internet. I am not the first to discuss my blogging mistakes or the last. It was just the way things transpired made me say (out loud) “Huh”. Maybe a little credit would be nice. You can at least publish my comments that I have tried to leave (twice). Here’s the thing Gobala, you have 10 items on 1 post about your blogging mistakes, I have a whole website for my mine! (not sure I should be bragging about that)

By the way, for the record, I have a sinking feeling my next post about blogging mistakes will be how you shouldn’t upset people in internet marketing who are widely more successful and popular than you are (like Gobala) but we’ll see where this goes.