I was having an open discussion with saimatkong a few days back. And from it, I took back a valuable observation I made of myself. As vain as it sounds, now I know why my traffic isn’t that great.
The simple answers always want to make you slap yourself. And my answer to myself was, I don’t blog for people.
If I really wanted to increase my traffic, what I should blog about are:
- Tutorials
- Website examples (galleries)
- Downloads/Freebies
But I’m not doing all this. Yes, I’ve a category called website lessons or blog lessons. However, you’ll not find a tutorial on how to build a website or blog in there. I know I can write a series on it but I can’t feel the drive to do it.
What I blog about is my personal observations and opinions towards the website and online marketing ideas I’ve stumbled. I like blogging about topics which made me think and makes me want to share it with others.
While you read my articles, it’s like seeing and feeling what I felt when I was writing it. This my blog’s true nature and the reason I’m blogging.
What is your blog’s true nature? Or, why are you blogging?
Good observation… I feel many bloggers are still not in tune with the question “what is the true nature of your blog” but once they’ve realized that and zoned in on the true nature of their blog, almost every post is of quality content.
Good one! =)
I blog for myself, not for those tutorials & stuff. I dont have high traffic but at least the blog reflects the true nature of myself, which is something I find pride from!
Depends lah, if you want quality, or quantity in the traffic. If it’s the latter, just put up a sexy babe photo on the header!
Not much of a blogger myself, but even with Twitter, the only question I try to answer before posting anything up – is the reader getting anything out of this?
I blog to help others… Even my facebook is all about personal reviews I hop someone will find useful, and Twitter is for sharing useful links… But just because u try to make it reader centric doesn’t mean u have to sacrifice yourself… It does however mean u have to exercise restraint at time from putting nonsense up
I blog for the fraternity and circles of insurance practitioners and entrepreneurs engaging in the insurance industry….. I do not think we should blog for ourselves or blog on something we ourselves cannot comprehend or not able to master – rendering the contents useless, slugs and debris for the cyberspace! Blogging, firstly should be fun to us, and this would be when contents are of beneficial to the people surfing the internet, and if they find the contents good and can relate to, then there would be repeated visits….. Ultimately, our site gets some repeating audience and fans…. Hopefully this theory works for my blogsite as well. Well! We can never get all cyber-goers to be our fan but at least some will…..
@wilfred, saimatkong, aaron:
Thankfully, it didn’t take 10 years to realize it. LOL!
@mike, friedbeef:
Well, I guess part of posting this up is setting expectations right to whoever which reads my blog. :)
@CJ:
It’s good to know you’ve a direction to which you’re blogging.