It is a fact that there are more bloggers then readers, but dammit I am proud to be a blogger. I have something on my mind and I want to published it to the world for everyone to see even if they could care less! My blog does have a small, but growing audience. I get around 9 to 50 unique visitors a day and my blog is only for a local audenice (the city of Indianapolis). Also the blog is only 2 months old. Do you have a blog and is there someone actually reading it? Is blog only for SEO or are you trying to building a readership also? Do you update your blog often? One last comment, READ MY BLOG!!! Someome has too..
This should probably be over in the blogging forum but hey, this will do. Alot of blogs are just for SEO which is bulls***. Mine started as a way to showcase examples of scripts and tutorials I hadn't seen elsewhere and kindof grew into a monster! Take a look at my blogger template tweak!
I just started setting up one of those LENS things. I don't really care for blogs too much. Some people have good ones but it seems like most of them are built in order to aid in SEO support for a website or to generate clicks for ad $$. Borrrrrring!
Hi marques, I have a real blog that's meant to inform my readers. It's #1 in all the search engines for "Affiliate Blogs" so the SEO aspect is great. I try to post at least once a day and the posts are designed for real eye balls not just for spiders. I would not put in the time and effort I do to write good posts unless I thought real people would want to read it. The real value of a blog IMO is getting lots of readers, subscribers and having others syndicate the blog which creates more traffic and links. That only happens if you provide real content. (I do occasional blogging designed purely for traffic on some other sites though - not my main site.)
Kewl, I did not know that DP had a blog forum. Typically I hang out in the Google, Directory, SEO and general chat forums. Looks like I can add this one to my lists. 5starAffiliates, I agree with everyting you said. If the blog is good, seo will be awarded with little effort. I have posts in my queue but I try not to post everyday, but every 2 to 3 days. I have been on blogs where the guy is posting 1 to 2 times a day and I can not keep up and only read the most current.
Aside from my business blogs I have one for just my friends to talk trash back and forth. I find it's way better than email or IM.
That sounds like fun! That would reduce the number of emails I get daily by about 50%. Damn trash-talkin' friends!
I have no idea why I blog..I put google on the side to justify them... but heck I think I help people out with them!
have a few 1 for SEO, hardly updated. 1 for personal info, updated when I feel like it 1 for network marketing news (worked out better than a full CMS) updated daily I dislike about 99% of the blogs out there, people should really just have summaries, not the entire post on the homepage.
Hey can you tell me how to summarize on blogger..been trying to figure that out...easy to use the exerpt on word press..but blogger..I am hopeless.
I have to say that if used the right way a blog can become a mini community between family and friends. That makes your blog more than just an endless rant about how your next door neighbor has a pile of dead drifters in their back yard.
That's an excellent point sarahk. This could become a real issue for any blogger when potential employers start looking at your online activity. 60 Minutes recently aired a piece about how employers, in almost every state in the US, can fire people for any reason. The employees have no recourse.
No discrimination laws kicking in? or can you really get sacked just because the boss wants to employ a cousin or lover in your place? or doesn't like you because you don't put out?
Not here in the states. It turns out that almost every state favors the employer in situations like these. There are even reports showing up of people having to take a personality test to make sure they are fit to be employed over here. While I hate the pro-labor policies of western europe I think there needs to be some kind of protection for american workers (while there are still some of us left).
The personality tests are quite normal for management types of jobs down here but there are strict anti-discrimination laws to protect workers. Sometimes it's all a bit politically correct but generally the balance works out best.
Yeah, not getting sidetracked has never been a problem for me. Sometimes I need to look at the title tag of my blog to remind myself what I have once envisioned for it