Monday, January 8
Focus on Blogging SuccessTony Hung, of Deep Jive Interests, is guest posting at one of my favorite sites, ProBlogger, this week. I always enjoy learning a thing or two over there.
He has an excellent post, 5 Prerequisites for Blogging Success. I was trying to figure out what I could learn from it, until I got to #5: "Focus". Oh, dear. I am so left out of that one ;)
...[blogs] who introduce nonsensical and unrelated topics are blogs that will find it difficult to succeed.
But, then I realized my focus here is non-sense and unrelated topics. Whew. Somebody's got to do that, you know. I am here to fill that void.
Thus endeth meta-blogging for the day.
8:35 AM |
Comments (18) |
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I read the article and know why I will never be a successful blogger. I don't have that much time to spend writing the "stuff" I write. It wouldn't be "rambling" if I tried that hard.
I'm with you on non-sense and unrelated. I wouldn't exactly call myself "successful", no - but that was never my aim anyway and after almost ten years of blogging I think I'm probably not going anywhere! Here's to non-sense and unrelated, woohoo!
Let me join the crowd! I started blogging to throw ideas down, vent (for my OWN sanity FIRST) and to entertain my few friends with my damily crazy life. I don't blog for $$ or fame.
In my opinion, success is a personal thing, with personal definitions. SO PLEASE get your friends to check out my blog PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE?
LMAO
I firmly disagree with everybody that purports to have a "correct" way to blog. Thats dumb. If you're trying to sell a blog or something, thats one thing, but the best blogs, to me, are the people that tend to put a fairly unedited, streamish of consciousnessish thought on the internet.
And how do you measure success? Hits? Comments? Huh?
I've said it before:
If my grandkids, long after I'm gone, can read my blog posts and get a picture of who I was as a human being (not the old, sickly person I'll be they last see me), then I'd say I had a successful blog.
I'm with AT.
I don't know how you define "success" in blogging. It's completely arbitrary.
And if success is defined as "making a living at it," then, by extension, you're failing at football if you're just playing with some friends in your back yard.
I'd also like to point out that that author needs to work on his contractions.
I guess you're all right in a fashion -- success is certainly relative. And for the audience at Problogger, the audience whom I was writing for, I was tailoring my post to what I thought their idea of what "success" meant.
And judging from their reactions, I guess I hit the nail on the head.
Clearly busymom's own definition of success jives with its audience, as it resonances with the crew over here. More power to rambling non sensical ramblings, in that case, I say ;)
Cheers
Tony.
PS John -- I fixed that retraction; I tend to make silly grammatical mistakes on 3h of sleep.
I read that article too. I find your readers comments very interesting. I agree that we should "blog away" as we like..but for those who's like to be a "Pro- blogger" the article makes sense. Still, I'd rather blog the way I want :). I am hoping to get some ads to support my blogging habit and justify the time I spend blogging. But...whatever. Income or no income, I'd still blog away.
OK, now I'm rambling. Got to go. I enjoyed visiting your blog.
Liza
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