Personality Blogging
Look at the feeds you read. Take a look at the television programs you choose. There’s a good chance you have at least a few entertaining sources in your repetoire.
Likewise, while the focus of your content shouldn’t change, the lightness and substance can vary sometimes.
Richard MacManus has almost 15K subscribers, so I am assuming he knows a little about what he does. Blogging is what he does well.
Following his example is not easy, but it’s a surefire way to make your blog more successful. Here’s a snippet from his post for today:
However it did make me
wonder – what would cause other people to give up blogging?
Here are the top ten
reasons I could think of:
10. Your Alexa ranking is so low that it
actually drops below the horizontal axis.
9. You are the number 1 result in Google for "blogorrhoea".
8. You never get any links from A-listers, despite constantly linking to
them. Well there was that one time when Mike Arrington linked to you in his
diary blog Crunchnotes, but he used
the ‘nofollow’
tag.
7. Your commentary on new products and services is so bad that even web 2.0 PR companies refuse to email you.
– Richard MacManus
wonder – what would cause other people to give up blogging?
Here are the top ten
reasons I could think of:
10. Your Alexa ranking is so low that it
actually drops below the horizontal axis.
9. You are the number 1 result in Google for "blogorrhoea".
8. You never get any links from A-listers, despite constantly linking to
them. Well there was that one time when Mike Arrington linked to you in his
diary blog Crunchnotes, but he used
the ‘nofollow’
tag.
7. Your commentary on new products and services is so bad that even web 2.0 PR companies refuse to email you.
– Richard MacManus
I won’t give you the rest of the list. Visit his blog to see them. It’s a great example of how to ‘do blogging’ well.
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