Bloggers Face-Off: Anita vs. Juergen

It was about time to bring some comedy-entertainment bloggers inside the face-offs. The humor-comedy niche is an interesting one, while some popular blogs like Boing Boing do bring entertainment stuff into their content there are few blogs focused exclusively on that.

Anita is the founder of Say No To Crack, a humor blog that is growing very fast. It was created in 2006 and it won the 2007 Weblog Awards under the category “Best New Blog”. Juergen is the author of Random Good Stuff, another very popular blog that talks about gadgets, games and weird things. Check it out!

	Anita	Juergen
1. How long have you been blogging?	Since October 2006. Before that, I didn’t even know what a blog was	I started blogging one and a half years ago but refused to call it “blogging” back then
2. How many hours do you dedicate to your blog daily?	Up until the end of March, I’d spend about 4 hours, seven days a week. Now I spend 1-2 hours daily	Way too much time - let’s say 3-4 hours a day, so people don’t think I’m crazy
3. Do you make money from it?	We’ve been experimenting with a few different ad vehicles but we are still in the early stages of testing	Yes, it’s mostly generated by affiliate sales
4. How many page views the blog generates daily?	In March, the site averaged about 15,000 pageviews per day	The last couple of days have been pretty good, around 7000
5. What is the best promotion technique you have used?	Commenting on savvy bloggers’ blogs. This ensures my interesting posts get submitted to the social networks	I run competitions from time to time but building up a network to other bloggers really helps
6. How many RSS feeds do you read daily?	About 20 daily, 200 weekly	It’s well over 200
7. What is your favorite social bookmarking site?	StumbleUpon	Stumble, because they have the most link love for RGS
8. If you could give an advice for a novice blogger, what would it be?	First focus on building a loyal community, then on building traffic, and finally on monetizing your site	Don’t give up. If you really want to make it, you can. Look at RGS: I’m German, and my English spelling and grammar is a nightmare, but people love it
9. How important is the “fun” factor for a blog? (0 to 10)	6 - It really depends on the purpose of the blog. I think any successful blogger has a sense of humor though	If it’s not fun it’s not RGS, so I’d say “11″
10. Do you think there is an ideal posting frequency?	At least once per day, but posting should be limited to 1,000 words per day	I try to post 4-5 stories a day
11. If you could read only one blog, which one would you pick?	Neatorama.com	Notcot.org
12. What is the secret of your success, expressed in one word?	Content	“Blogging addiction”

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Daniel Scocco on April 24, 2007 | Filed Under Bloggers Face-Off

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21 Responses to “Bloggers Face-Off: Anita vs. Juergen”

Rishi on April 24th, 2007 6:57 am

My vote for Anita. Say No To Crack is something very innovative.
Busy Mom on April 24th, 2007 8:39 am

I love both of those sites, but, I’ll vote for Anita.
Daniel on April 24th, 2007 2:48 pm

Rishi, that is true, sites that bring something new into a segment usually have success, that was the case with Say No To Crack. They already have 1300 subscribers also.
Chris on April 25th, 2007 1:44 am

I’d have voted for Anita anyway, but after seeing her photo…..Can I vote twice?
T4td on April 25th, 2007 1:49 am

I vote for RGS - it has a much greater variety of content than say no to crack.
Daniel on April 25th, 2007 2:04 am

Chris, I was expecting that she would earn lots of votes for the photo alone…

I read both sites and I think they are great, but any weapon goes!
Nandini on April 25th, 2007 2:35 am

This face off is really heated up, but it would be really tough for Anita to beat Jurgen (surprisingly she is leading at the moment). Jurgen has a great sense of humour and it reflects in his posts. Go Jurgen Go!
yash on April 25th, 2007 3:00 am

voted for Juergen……..coz RGS has a bit wider range of coverage as compared to Say No To Crack….however, Anita with pretty good photo but won’t work here coz it’s Juergen who’ll lead the way…get goinnnn Juergen….
Daniel on April 25th, 2007 3:01 am

Looks like Juergen is making a come back actually, I guess his supporters are starting to vote hehe.
Rhea on April 25th, 2007 5:24 am

I enjoy both sites, but I read Anita’s regularly these days.
DeputyDog on April 25th, 2007 6:12 am

It’s gotta be Jeurgen, great site and really welcoming.
Just a shame he doesn’t look like Anita.
RGS on April 25th, 2007 6:38 am

Thank you all for who voted for RGS and also a thank you for the SNTC readers who might have subscribed to my site..

Deputy Dog … I am working on the looks .. got couple of sharp knifes and found this great site ” Look better in just 10 cuts”
Maki :: Dosh Dosh on April 25th, 2007 12:45 pm

Anyone else think Anita look like Scarlett Johansson?
Anita on April 25th, 2007 1:41 pm

Haha, I wish Maki. Maybe I’ll post a newer picture sometime and see if you think the same thing
tanguy on April 26th, 2007 2:40 pm

RGS… not as good-looking as Anita, but his content is more appealing to me.
drew on April 29th, 2007 7:28 pm

they’re both really good quality sites, but say no to crack is just really wordy, so my vote goes to rgs