Are You A Trusted Blogger?

Great post!! Yes, I think I would say I'm a trusted blogger. When I'm reporting facts I always link my readers to the original article. If there are several opinions I try to link readers to a variety of articles so they get a rounded view of it. If it's my opinion and another article can back me up I will link to that. I think it comes from needing to back up things for graduate papers.

I agree that I wouldn't feel comfortable reading a blog where there were no links to back up new information. Opinion, though, is a little different. I think if the blogger comes across as honestly talking about their life that is important! People will respnd to the truth no matter how awful it might seem to you:) I am constantly surprised by how many people will send good wishes and prayers if you need them. The Internet has some very good-hearted people!
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I believe its a matter of opinion, what people read and believe is not so much about trust but interest. I have people who may have confidence in me, but sometimes things happen and you have to start over which makes it hard to trust a great blogger when they change their life for others anyways im blaing this morning...but hopefully the people who have come to realize who you really are will continue to follow and help along the way. Like you. thanks

That's a very important phrase: "credible source references". I (almost) always link to my sources of information - and identify my opinions with phrases like "I think". No great virtue: I was a scholar before I was a blogger, and citing your sources is 'term paper 101.' Or should be.

As for consistency - that's why I've got (so far) 11 blogs. One blog/topic. Although one's topic could be described as 'life, the universe, and everything.

Thanks for bringing this topic up. I hope more bloggers will start saying where they get their facts. (And, perhaps in some cases, *getting* facts.)

Very good topic and points you made here. I always check, re-check and re-verify everything and take great care to give my readers proper and accurate information, I think it is crucial for success in any flagship blog.

Along the same lines, I think it is important to provide useable info and data as well, that really keeps this coming back.
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Citing sources when blogging is essential for establishing trust with your readers. We always ask that our bloggers go back and edit any articles that don't refer to studies or data that they are referring to. Of course, pointing to other authority blogs on a topic are also important for building that sense of trust.

This is surely one thing many don't get.

Linking to OTHER sites only makes YOU look better, not loss of readers as most fear.
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Without the trust factor we or our blogs are nowhere. This goes to the heart of your credibility and when that takes a hit it is an awful thing from which to recover.

Being up front and honest with your readers is not only great blogging etiquette, but something we should be about anyway. If you are going to be a trusted source of information, it's something that has to be earned through full disclosure.
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Yup, I do my best to be trustworthy. I wouldn't blog anything not true and that's also why I disclose when I do paid posts and make sure to let people know - in the first paragraph - that all views are 100% mine.

Too bad there's not a "trust scale" website we can login to and see how trustworthy we are at the moment :D
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Im a blog reader and subscriber and i agree that every person has to give resources we can trust. We visit blogs to get knowledge and we want accurate information, and know that we can rely on that.