People Will Not Read Your Blog

Posted by Melvin 6 June, 2008

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…much more to comment on your post. Well with over 20 billions of blogs in the blogosphere, it’s really hard for new blogs or even old blogs to obtain some trust and get some disciples followers. I know some will easily say that if you promote it well, then most likely things are gonna go well. Maybe not! Writing great content is hoisted all over the World Wide Web. By far it is still the most effective way of convincing people that you really worth the attention. But how is good content good? How do you make people like you? Your blog? Here are some simple tips that to my surprise I see many do not do.

• Spontaneity. Well my blog is very new. I have created it just last May 27. And the sad part is after creating and making the first post, mosquitoes don’t want me to have a great start so they gave me the dengue and I was confined for 4 days. So what about it? Well looking to my blog I got about over 20 comments already and I can say it’s a great number because I see most blogs that do not have a comment for most posts and it’s a big pain. When writing a post in blog, I suggest being natural with what you feel. I mean some bloggers tend to put so much pressure on perfecting their post and it really hurt their blog. Just go with what you feel, after all it’s a blog, it’s YOUR blog. And how many times do you see shoemoney writing about lost episodes, johnchow about his fine dining and look, they get tons of comments for that!

• Affiliate links. I really despise reading blogs with affiliate links on almost every post. That’s why I don’t read chow’s blog that much. =p Btw, putting an affiliate links are not really bad but should be held moderately. Remember that you’re providing readers informations and helping them, not the other way around.

• Super duper Self promotion. Oftentimes, I really see blogs that have some promotions about themselves on the first page and I think it’s not really a great way. Most of this blogs are about SEO and it’s obvious that they are indeed selling their services and boasting. In my humble opinion, I feel that can be put instead at the about page where it really does not mess the content.

• Flawed template. Ok, I admit the first time I bought my theme I edit it heavily not knowing that it made my sidebar pushed down. I didn’t see it because I’m using firefox (though some did) and I really thank people for letting me know it (they are from blog premiere and some from digital point). Right now the template has still some flaws and I’m really doing everything to clean the mess.

• You don’t read their blog. So if you don’t read other peoples blog then chances are they don’t read your blog. Most blogs out there are really informative and I can say that it has really helped me a lot in some aspects. To reward them why not link to them?

These are just few things that popped into my mind when thinking about people who say “why don’t you visit my blog anymore”. You can always add something there and everyone has his own views. I’m glad to hear some from you…

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    11 Comments

    Comment by Rajaie AlKorani
    2008-06-06 14:28:23

    Being natural is one of the things I’m trying to achieve over at my blog, except it’s not as easy as I thought.

     
    Comment by Ganesh
    2008-06-06 15:01:29

    Your lucky, Melvin. I only started getting comments from people across the blogosphere about two weeks after starting my blog. What I really like about your blog, is that you express your honest opinion. Keep it up! :D

     
    Comment by Melvin
    2008-06-08 00:14:12

    @rajaie yeah i really agree it’s not easy… for me sometimes i have to think whether I really should mention/share some things
    @ganesh thanks.. Well to be honest, i think blogs about making money and/or internet marketing get so much comments and I don’t know why… ;-)

     
    Comment by pinaymommy
    2008-06-08 00:18:09

    hello melvin! found your blog at PMT. nice work here.

    i started getting comments when i showed honesty to my readers. i am running a personal blog too.

     
    Comment by Melvin
    2008-06-08 06:06:51

    @pinaymommy – hey why are there so many mommy bloggers from philippines? ;-)

     
    Comment by Rockstar Sid
    2008-06-08 09:21:20

    True .. Money making guyz flodd their blog with links and promotions,other don’t read our blogs as they have so called “Attitude”!.. I usually ignore those people.. I read,write and enjoy by making a small community :-)

     
    Comment by Susan
    2008-06-08 15:13:18

    Hi Melvin, I found your blog through BlogUpp. This is a great article. I think what makes certain blogs more interesting than others is when the author shares about his/her experience rather than just regurgitating facts.
    Thanks for sharing your tips on blogging.

     
    Comment by Melvin
    2008-06-09 09:46:45

    @susan thanks… i thought blogupp is useless.. ;-)

     
    Comment by ppramadhan
    2008-06-11 08:23:55

    Hi Melvin,…
    this is my first visit.
    Thanks for your thoughts… it’s inspiring…
    If I’m not wrong, your conclusion is: Blogging is more important than earning.
    Keep on blogging..

     
    Comment by dimaks
    2008-06-14 17:38:26

    i could not agree more with your last point. i observed that big time. i think it’s about scratching each other’s back. some people just don’t bother visiting your site if they don’t see you visiting them. so yes, yuo are right.. after all its your blog, so just blog :)

     
    Comment by Demiera
    2008-06-24 16:28:37

    Melvin, 
    your blog is timely as I started my blog months ago and thought that i didnt get any readers because nobody would be interested in what I have to say. Now i see that it’s because nobody knows I have anything to say…thanks for this post! it was really inspiring!

     

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