A newsletter came in today. It talks about the proliferation of blogs in recent years and why they failed in a short span of time. Intrigued, mainly because my blog hasn’t been very successful since 2018. I envy those blogs with over a thousand followers and anticipate mine to be as successful in days to come. Among all the key points shared, one point caught my attention: blogging requires techniques to be successful, and it is not writing.
If blogging is not writing, then what it is?
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Category: Thoughts
I’d be interested to read the full article. Maybe they’re referring to COMMERCIAL blogging – which I have never really considered as legitimate. Maybe it is, but the more personal blogging – like what many of us do – cannot be relegated and disregarded. If you regularly post on your blog, that’s blogging – regardless of follower count. I’d rather have 5 sincere, engaged followers than 1000 bots or disinterested people who give nothing substantial back to me as a writer.
Yeah, I suppose it’s referring to commercial blogging. Blogging to me is a leisure. If we try to make it commercially viable is when it becomes stressful. Like you, engaging blog matters more than anything. Here it is! — https://www.irevuo.net/most-blogs-fail-why/
I totally get you. I don’t get that eaither. My blog is a my journal. I write my thoughts on art of course. I love painting. I say just write and have fun. Your blog can be successful without the 1000. I know numbers matter but write from the heart and that will radiate and spark curiosity. Ok I need to tell myself this all the time too!
I’m just like you, writing for leisure. You’re right, writing should be fun. Sometimes, others numbers are intimidating and make me paranoid.