DISQUS

Carlo · 2 years ago

Differently from Battlestar Galactica, I have read this post carefully.
In one year and a half FCHOUSE has been opened I've lived many different "Periods", fought against the things I thought "incorrect" and changed a lot of things.
Sometimes I've written several post every day, sometimes the "dark period" has left the blog quite empty for too long.
I have to admit that I follow the points you have stated (even if my english is not very good) but the "Large numbers" has never reached my shores. Yes, I've done a lot of mistakes and I will still do (english, arguments too wide and so on) but I'm quite happy with something like 100 visitors a day.
My blog is a ShoutPost for my thoughts, and I feel Good writing in it, letting it become another part of me!

Good Job!!!!

Cheers

webomatica · 2 years ago

Cool, I am glad you liked this post. I have left out some of the technical stuff like blog aggregators which I am saving for another post. Thanks for visiting and reading.

Viajero · 2 years ago

Wow. You covered it so very well. I've got to stop reading your blog, it's competing with my new time-sink "SL".

After blogging every couple of weeks for a couple of months (and taking the opposite tack from most of your strategies as well) I too wrote on blogging itself, but more on the "Why?" question, as in "Why blog?".

So now I have a half-assed occasional diversion that gives me some satisfaction but few readers.

webomatica · 2 years ago

Heh... I sometimes ask myself why, too, but I have some personal motives, namely to become a better writer, and I like turning my opinions into something coherent.

One of my biggest reasons for not blogging is the amount of time involved, so I am still trying to find ways to reduce it, turning the "Why?" into "Why not?"

I also am continually amused by the comments and links from other people's blogs... I'm finding new stuff to check out now, almost daily. For example, I assume your blog is linked above; I'll check it out and see if I can get some additional blogging strategies to try.

Thanks for reading!

tunequestor · 2 years ago

The key to blogging success (using whatever definition you like), from my point of view, is credibility. Credibility is the bedrock of interestingness, which a site is primarily news-based or personality-based.

Good content, presented well, will eventually result in links and traffic. It can be frustrating though, waiting for months for traffic to creep into double digit page views while thanklessly working to build your site.

But the thing is, like everything worthwhile in life, is that the more you do it, the better you get. The quality of your writing improves, but also the quality of your ideas, because you get used to thinking critically.

I've found that I've become much more observant since I started publishing my own site. I pay more attention to my experiences, whether music, tv, games, my commute or just watching animals play in the back yard. I've found that I begin writing my impressions of events in my head as they happen, trying to find a way to relate them to a larger audience.

So even if traffic never seems to get as high as you'd like, by actively using your mind and sharing your thoughts and ideas, you're improving yourself, and by my measure that could be the blogging phenomenon's most successful accomplishment of all.

webomatica · 2 years ago

tunequestor that is a good point. I try to keep it real here... I have an about page that indicates what I'm writing about and a little about why.

Yeah I am also realizing that ultimately the blogging thing is pretty much a self improvement thing. But keeping that first (along with credibility) I have seen other things falling into place.

Your experience about the real world bleeding into the blog is pretty true. I shamelessly admit that sometimes I'm thinking about things to do that would make a good blog post. :)

james · 2 years ago

Cool post! Just kidding. My blog is still to "broad". I jump between my love of travel, Denver stories and issues, and news of my interest. I find writing about "narrow" and individual stories have the same search sucess as your overall theme. Commenting on Britney Spears will never result in search results to your blog. I recently commented on a local guy who's making national news trying to sue clubs for "ladies nights". My article was immediately on the front page of all searches and news for him. He even commented himself.

webomatica · 2 years ago

Hi James. I think what you mention about search specifity is sometimes called "long tail". Good observation. Variety definitely helps for those Google searches.