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Why doesn't anyone read my blog?

guitarnerd

guitarnerd

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I have been blogging consistently for 2 and a half years now, under the same domain, with virtually no down time and have always posted about fairly interesting things. I typically post 2 times a day except maybe only twice over the weekend and sometimes more.

I average 20 uniques a day, sometimes less or more. I rank decently for a blogger in search engines and I probably get a quarter of my hits to that but why is it that I have not got any recognition beyond that.

I will admit I have stayed out of the blogging community a lot. I don't really get involved with the whole chit chat this guy said that bs but I thought that would be what makes my blog interesting.

Anyway, if you have a blog, and get more readers than I do what is your success

one other note, I probably have 30 people subscribed to my rss feed, as that is about how many people I see coming from different ip's in my web stats
 
no, I probably could but it would require me to drive 2.5 hours to the place I met her and figure out what camp ground she stayed in. Otherwise there is no way to find out.
 
Well, the thing is, the internet is just watered down with blogs. You might post interesting things on your all the time, but so do a lot of people who get no recognition either. It takes something special really, because there's nothing spectacular the separates one blog from another. Most people would end up chooisng a blog that their friend writes over a complete strangers, simply because they can maybe relate more to the person they actually know.
 
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Well, the thing is, the internet is just watered down with blogs. You might post interesting things on your all the time, but so do a lot of people who get no recognition either. It takes something special really, because there's nothing spectacular the separates one blog from another. Most people would end up chooisng a blog that their friend writes over a complete strangers, simply because they can maybe relate more to the person they actually know.
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Yeah I know, but all the people I know that established bloggers around the time I did and post less often with less interesting stuff get 50-100 uniques a day and commonly get links on big blogs like scobleizer and scripting news giving them a couple thousand hits in a day.

Just read how insanely freaking cool my most recent post is...

The T Prize

With nasa going faster than we have ever gone before, roughly 7,000mph (I like to think of it as 2 miles per second) we are only 185,998 miles per second away from light speed. So Nasa, considering the X-34A is an "unmanned" vehicle...I am not impressed, well I am but I am not...I want lightspeed

So I here by state that the first person to make something (human or not) go lightspeed I will give them $1,000 I call it...the T Prize
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I don't know, I rarely ever visit blogs, but maybe devote the blog to one very specific topic only?
 
Wow, one topic never thought of that. It's possible but it wouldn't be as much fun for me to blog. I am actually starting a community with music news and such and am anticipating a couple hundred uniques a day there. I am just ranting

One thing I failed to mention is I was blogging 4 years ago or so. as a handful of you here may no I started the guitarnerd website which I sold and eventually turned into a website, but even before guitarnerd I was blogging and that was like 2000 or something. The reason why I joined freewebspace was with help on domains and hosting (of course) when I was first getting started
 
Most bloggers write for other bloggers. Out of the many successfuly blogs that get 4,000 or more visits a day I bet at least a quarter of them are other bloggers. Getting involved in the blogger community is how you grow your audience because the bloggers you're involved with provide you with an audience and your link on their site keeps growing your audience.

The problem with personal blogs is they're utterly uninteresting. Who cares what someone ate for lunch or what someone got on a test in school or what someone bought?

Mostly for that kind of thing you'll probably get your friends/family/online friends to read regularly as a way of keeping current with your life if they don't have time to talk to you, but other than that I don't see how a blog can grow.

The most successful blogs are those that write about a specific topic that makes people come back - and do so from a unique angle. For example www.imao.us . It's a political blog that takes a humorous approach. It gets something like 4,000 visits a day if I am not mistaken.

Personal blogs/Xangas/Online Journals and those kinds of things are too great in number and too ordinary. You gotta set yourself apart from the crowd.
 
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Most bloggers write for other bloggers. Out of the many successfuly blogs that get 4,000 or more visits a day I bet at least a quarter of them are other bloggers. Getting involved in the blogger community is how you grow your audience because the bloggers you're involved with provide you with an audience and your link on their site keeps growing your audience.

The problem with personal blogs is they're utterly uninteresting. Who cares what someone ate for lunch or what someone got on a test in school or what someone bought?

Mostly for that kind of thing you'll probably get your friends/family/online friends to read regularly as a way of keeping current with your life if they don't have time to talk to you, but other than that I don't see how a blog can grow.

The most successful blogs are those that write about a specific topic that makes people come back - and do so from a unique angle. For example www.imao.us . It's a political blog that takes a humorous approach. It gets something like 4,000 visits a day if I am not mistaken.

Personal blogs/Xangas/Online Journals and those kinds of things are too great in number and too ordinary. You gotta set yourself apart from the crowd.
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My blog is sort of a humour + rants on subjects that effect me, everything from politics to going to space.

I am not a "journal" how dare you compare me to a damn xanga! :shame:
 
Here's a few problems:

Your blog is only going to interest people with similar interests as you. This is partly true for ALL blogs, but from what I could see scrolling through your blog, yours is affected by this in particular. Don't take any offense to this, as I am fully aware that your blog is more intelligent and sensible than a large percentage of others out there, but I couldn't see a single entry that grabbed my interest and held it. Let's face it - people like to read about sex and binge drinking and wild nights. Unless they are personally into the things you are into, reading about stuff you're into at the moment isn't going to interest them. Mainly because your interests are not exactly mainstream. For example, posting, 'this new issue of Playboy makes me hot' with pictures posted is going to do more for your blog than 'Isn't this amp wicked?' with pictures of an amp. It's sad and lame, but stupid shit like that is going to get you visits. I didn't find an article that I *HAD* to read, but only because my interests vary from yours. The style you write in is fine, you include current affairs and new releases, etc, you're certainly not sticking to one topic, so there is variety. But it will only appeal to a smaller audience because it isn't mainstream and a part of it is because it's varied, too. If you wrote only about guitars and amps and music, your visitors would come there for that. But if a guitar player finds a good guitar article on your site once, but whenever he keeps going back, he very rarely finds anymore guitar-related material, he will eventually not come back.

Actually, I lie, I found one article interesting, when you were writing about recording an album. I think if you focused heaps on your writing/recording side of things, people would find that interesting. I find it interesting. If your blog was all about you as an artist trying to break in, that's more specific and easier to follow. Let's face it, it'd be like an online Idol :p
 
A blog about recording...that's a good idea, maybe next time around I'll do that.

For now I will keep the blog as it is, if I was truly concerned with visitors coming I probably would have stopped blogging a month or two after I started but your right, chips+

my problem, if I want to look at it that way is subjectlessness

As long as I am not classified as a freaking xanga blog I am happy
 
does anyone here use an RSS Aggregator? I highly reccomend you guys download something like sharp reader and start using rss. Not only does it tell you when every site you read is updated it also lets you use your own style and everything.

I didn't really think it was a big deal until I used it and now I am subscribed to 30-40 rss feeds that I read every day, and it is the highlight of being at work, not to mention it keeps me from getting bored cause whenever I have nothing to do I hit refresh and get 10 new articles.

I like to read, a lot though so you may not like that
 
I used to, then i realised that going to the website itself seemed more fulfilling, in an unfulfilling sort of way :p
 
I don't know, but I don't really care about who reads my blog. I get only a few hundred hits per month.

I hate exceeding my transfer for a stupid blog which I almost did last August.

What I try to do is to have some worthy content besides the blog. People might come for the content and at the same time read your blog.
 
I could take it as a compliment and think of it as nobody is like me therefore not interested in the same stuff I am. I have plenty of other websites that I get a lot of visits on but whatever...I am sure I would get more visitors if I stayed on subject. But I'll take being able to write whatever I want over visits any day at least for something that is supposed to be my personal blogger
 
The guitarnerd.com site you list as your homepage in your profile on these forums seems like the sort that'll get lots of people watching it. "Group Sex Sites"? Let your domain expire, did you? :D (Either that, or moved into a field more lucrative than blogging.)
 
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I need to change that...sort of a long story but...

guitarnerd.com was a pretty popular website with lots of members and stuff. Well I decided I couldn't afford to host it or anything anymore so I sold it made a little profit.

Well the guy who took over screwed everything up and it lost probably 90% of its members and such, he also stole some money from the members by asking them to donate for a vbullitin license, he got $90 and then closed the site.

The domain expired and the same day it did some other guy registered it and turned it into a porn site
 
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