For me blogging is about sharing and connecting to readers. If I am successful my readership will grow, and that is how I judge the success of my blog. Here is a list of what I have learned about blogging so far.
What I have learned blogging
- Writing well takes time
- Writing for an audience is harder then writing for yourself
- What I find interesting isn't always popular
- Blog about what you know
- Attracting an audience to your blog is a skill
- Increasing the readership of a blog depends on readers returning
- Readers return when you write interesting content
- Blogs are judged on their appearance
- Knowing html helps, even on Blogger
- Links to your blog increases its rank in search engines
- Very few people leave comments
- Google Analytics, Feedburner and MyBlogLog are sources of feedback i.e statistics on readership
- WebsiteGrader will grade how visible your website is to search engine
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3 comments:
You would be better worrying about writing good content, then writitng a catchy heading. Otherwise you are wasting peoples time.
Thanks for your feedback. The intention wasn't to waste readers time. I am still learning about blogging and experimenting, sorry if it has been at the expense of your time.
p.s I will let people know the results of my blog experiment went at the end of the week. I am still collecting data.
My experiment to post a blog in list form didn't improve search results for my blog. In fact it was a failure. So it isn't something I will continue with.
I think that the post wasn't a good fit for my blog. So I will be editing the post. It will no longer read like an experiment. My focus in the future will be on uncommon knowledge.
Thanks for your time.
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