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This might make a good or well-written post, but for successful -- defined as he says by page-views -- he is leaving out half of the story. Popularity is large
by hxa7241 16y ago
This might make a good or well-written post, but for successful -- defined as he says by page-views -- he is leaving out half of the story.
Popularity is largely dependent on promotion or communication of some form. You have to tell people about your blog -- widely and often, for best effect. It won't simply follow from the content.
- jgrahamc 16y agoI agree. I almost added a section about the importance of channel and promotion, but decided not to because that's about how to promote your blog post and not how to write it.
- hxa7241 16y agoOh, well, you must post that next week then! (From which we may perhaps draw another guide: focus on one topic, and break substantially separate items into separate posts -- where they can be properly addressed . . .)
- jrockway 16y agoBack when I had my blog, I never promoted it much. I would link to it if it was relevant, or maybe tell people on IRC to read it, but that's it. No submit-to-diggg buttons or "you should follow me on Twitter". Fuck that patronizing shit. Anyway, I got a lot of readers and a lot of people coming up to me at conferences saying they read my blog, without having to annoy my readers and convince them to advertise for me. If you read it, great. If you don't read it, whatever. (Why don't I have a blog now? Because I hate all the existing blog software, and am very very slowly writing something I don't hate. I'll be back :)