Sunday thoughts……
I have read many blogs, especially new bloggers, that ask the same question time after time…..”why is no one reading my blog”?
Some want their thoughts to be instantly accepted by all people…..or they cannot understand why others do not enjoy the same things that the author likes?
I wish I had good advice on how to make your blog more popular but as one can see I am not tearing up the blogsophere with my blogs…..so I will bow to more experienced bloggers…..
I did find an interesting article that answered some of the questions that bloggers have abodut the popularity of their blogs….
Some excellent thoughts……
Online traffic is one of those things you’re not supposed to talk about.
But anyone who writes online and proclaims, “I don’t care if anyone reads me,” is a liar.
If you didn’t care if anyone read you, you wouldn’t write online. In fact, you wouldn’t write at all.
1. You’re boring.
One thing that’s remarkable is how many people think they are writing about something interesting when they are not. How many times have you lost track of what someone is saying when they are talking to you in person? Unfortunately, you can’t just walk away in real life if you want to be polite. On the internet, you can walk away with a click if someone fails to interest you. This happens all the time.
If your idea of being interesting is writing about complex tax codes, what your cat ate for breakfast (unless it’s Maru), or how much you bench pressed, you may be boring. It all depends. The fact of the matter is that it’s not the thing, it’s the relationship to the thing, and when it comes to writing, it’s not the subject, it’s your relationship to it.
It’s hard to say what my most popular post is thus far at this blog because Forbes has changed the way things are calculated, but currently the post at the most-read spot is: “9/11 Stories: ‘No One Talks About That.‘”
Like I said…I am NO expert so I have to bow to others that are mo better at writing a blog than me…..
I Read, I Wrote, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
People need time to find one’s blog. I knows this from my own experience. Yeah, it can be frustrating to find readers but blogging is not for instant satisfaction. However, if one has a good message to tell and one has patience and the drive to continue, even without anyone reading, one will find its audience.
I used to wonder the same thing about my own blog. My vanity told me that I wrote so that others would like me and think how great I am. Reality cured that misconception, but it took me awhile to realize that I was writing for my own therapy, and that I had no ability to “make” other people read or like what I wrote. Once I accepted that fact, I never wondered about how my blog was perceived again.
A healthy outlook toward blogging….chuq
As I often assert on my own blog, good blogging is all about engagement. You have to reply to comments, comment on other blogs that interest you, and hope to build a community, or to become part of one.
Arguing with people who don’t agree with what you write is pointless, but reasoned debate can attract others to comment.
Sticking to one theme, and only writing about one point of view can actually be useful. But you will only attract like-minded bloggers who agree with you.
Above all, new bloggers should know it will take time. Years, not days. If you don’t have the patience to put the work into blogging, then don’t start a blog and expect everyone to love it.
Best wishes, Pete.
Exactly…..patience is the key word….blogging is not for those searching for instant gratification chuq
I think a majority of their problem is that they don’t want to do the work. Time has to be invested for a blog to be recognized. Just because someone publishes a post, doesn’t mean that out of the billions of sites online – the Universe is going to land on theirs.
So true…..chuq
I have the same frustrations as many others but for some strange reason I find myself blogging on anyway. I think it must be a mental thing. One good thing about it all is that while I am in the process of writing blog posts, I am not stuffing my gut with fattening crap.
As a weight control…I like it….chuq
“9/11 Stories: ‘No One Talks About That.‘” Promises to let you in about a secret and it was in Forbes – Forbes show up big on search engines and the “secret” follows the elevator rule. If you overhear a conversation on an elevator that talks about something little known and/or about something big that is going to happen soon – chances are you cannot help but listen and as soon as you get off the elevator, you tell someone about the conversation you overheard. JFK used this angle to get people to come out and see him in LA in an appearance in front of LA city hall. A bunch of volunteers were given a script and instructed to ride the elevators in the buildings nearby as people were going to work in the morning and say they had heard from someone in the know that that the up and coming Kennedy was going to be there at noon.. By noon there were about 5,000 people gathered to see and hear Kennedy at the unannounced event.