Mr. Anonymous
An anonymous blogger is one who blogs under a pen name. He doesn’t reveal his identity to the readers, doesn’t matter what the reason is. Since I started blogging I have seen quite an increasing trend to this.
Conventional blogging is, well, just normal blogging where you don’t hide your identity from the readers. There may be a million and one ways why people choose the anonymity way to blogging, I will not be getting into that. But I will just be analyzing the merits and demerits of choosing to blog anonymously.
Instead of having you read through a huge pile of text, I’ll take the privilege to present it to you in form of a table. 
| # | Anonymous Blogging | Conventional Blogging |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not suitable if you want to build a community on your blog and increase interaction from the users who visit your website. | Much more suitable and reader-friendly in terms of receiving feedback from the visitors and creating interaction on your blog. |
| 2 | Hardly any chances of becoming some kind of an authority blogger or a ‘mover’ in your niche due to your anonymity. | Since you’re giving users a much better way to get to know you, a ‘real’ person’s opinion would also matter to them and you have a much better chance of having some importance in your niche.  |
| 3 | Quite odd chances of making blogging friends unless you reveal your identity. I mean, you can’t be anonymous and a friend at the same time! |
If you’re a friendly kind of a person and allow your readers access to your profiles on social networks, you might as well make some very helpful blogging friends. |
| 4 | Much harder to build user trust. This is very important if you’re trying to sell something on your blog or are trying to collect your reader’s email addresses. People are becoming more concerned about spam and scams. | When you get personal with your readers, your trust builds automatically. The problogger’s successful launch of his ‘31 Days to better blogging’ is a good example of the trust and authority factor on the success of an e-book launch. |
| 5 | You’re in a much safer position to try something shady.So, you can go ahead and try those traffic logs and other shady traffic ideas because even if you get caught you’re not losing reputation. | This is a big NO for the not-so-anonymous bloggers. Your reputation count goes to negative if you try something shady, others will think of your website as spammy and you have almost to recover from that. |
| 6 | There are times when you just want to go too controversial and expose some bad side of a kind of a big blogger. When you’re blogging anonymously, you are in the most safe position because any flaming from them would just be hitting a blank face. | You have to watch your mouth. The blogosphere is a big community you might not want to trash-talk and seem like the rude and arrogant blogger in the community and turn your blogging experience into a hell. |
| 7 | Better for MFA website. If your website is one of those throw-away websites that you make just for adsense then I would advise you to go for anonymous blogging. You can simply put up any type of content and make money. No worries about that. | Not to mention, the nonsense content we marketers put up there. You don’t want to lose your reputation again and get flamed by people accusing you of trying to ‘make monies’ and providing them low-quality content. |
| 8 | Just not suitable for branding, in most cases. | Perfect for branding. Provided that you choose a good domain name, make yourself and your blog brand-able. |
That’s it for this little comparison between the two blogging ways that you could adopt. Now while I provided you with a more obvious side of the anonymous blogging thing.
For a new blogger wanting to achieve success, I would definitely recommend conventional blogging. There are many, many, many bloggers on the internet which may be a million times better than me at blogging and making money, and they are blogging anonymously.
My comparison was for the average start-up blogger because everybody does not have terrific humor like Internet marketing sucks or mastermind seo ideas like Slightly Shady SEO which cut out the anonymity part for the average reader.
So, go through this list again if you’re one of the double-minded people who just can’t decide which one is better.
P.S. You would NEVER want to reveal your identity on an money making auto blog. Take my word on this one. *gulps*
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 17 years old, and live in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I'm in Grade 11 studying in Saint Mary's Academy. I started this blog to share my money making experiences with others through the internet.
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