Comments on: Thoughts on Blog Popularity

By: Eric Mill

Eric Mill — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:32:53 +0000

You have to have a pretty intense drive to have a successful blog. And you do need to have a consistent voice. I don’t think that you need to ruthlessly expunge all mention of your personal life, if you weave it into whatever your message or focus is about.

I think I’d like to have more of a voice, and that’ll require some new things. I don’t want to give up my tiny personal blog for friends, but I think I could be doing more.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:44:42 +0000

“I want to write about whatever I feel like.” Exactly!

I used to keep track of site traffic, but eventually I decided it wasn’t really meaningful. Plus, looking at the stats encouraged me to start obsessing about the numbers and how to increase them, which sidetracked me from the enjoyment of just blogging without worrying about what other people think or if anybody reads it.

By: katz

katz — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:09:18 +0000

Yeah, there’s no point in angling for popularity if you’re sacrificing the principle of the thing in the meantime. Chimaera gets a fair number of first-time visitors, but not a lot of return traffic, mainly because the topics it covers are so varied. People find a politics post or a books post, but then lose interest when the next post is about something entirely different. But I don’t want to write a blog about just one topic. I want to write about whatever I feel like.