Do You Fear Loosing Your Blog Readers?
I use to, but not anymore. I fear not getting new readers more than loosing old ones. Loosing readers is like filtering your readers pool. Those who likes your blog will stay back, those who find your blog good enough for them will stay back. It’s the number of people who stays back that counts, not the number that leaves.
Blogging and bloggers are a funny combination. When they start their blogging journey or adventure is you want to put it that way, they will meet and read a lot of blogs with articles that are so refreshing to them, never seen before in the mainstream media. They bookmark every blog site that offers them something new, hoping to go back later to read more. Think back, were you like that when you started blogging your first blog? I certainly was. I had a long list of bookmarks that I will click from top to bottom every morning.
Then somewhere along the line, these blogs slowly looses their novelty. What they wrote does not seem so fresh anymore and you delete the bookmark from your list or you just leave it there never ever clicking on it anymore. That blogger just lost one of his or her reader. You. The remaining blogger’s links in your bookmarks that you have kept just gained another loyal reader. You again.
What Made People Loose Interest
Repetitions is the biggest culprit. No not a complete repetition, but a repetition of your blogging style. Who on earth would like to come to your blog to hear you rant everyday. No doubt you might feel you are ranting about different things on different days, buy hey, a rant is still a rant, how different can it be? It can be appealing to first timers. In fact it will be an eye opener for first timers. They will be in awe, “oh so that is what I can do and write in my blog!” will be their reaction, but if they keep reading you rant for months to end, they become immune and they will start to find you boring.
What Are the Questions Asked Before Clicking on Your Link.
When I hover over a link in my blog-roll, I ask myself, “what has this blogger got for me today?” If I can answer that question without a second thought, I will skip to the next link without clicking and ask the same question. Your blog has become too taken for granted and there is no element of surprise in your articles anymore. I know you will be ranting about your kid. I know you will be complaining about your boss. I know so I don’t want to know anymore.
If I hover over a link and I can’t figure out what will be the blogger’s post for that day, I will want to check them out. Even if it is just to satisfy my curiosity. These blogs are those that goes up and up and away. They have their readers eating out of their hands by giving them something different and useful every day. Okay, never mind useful, but at least it will be different that no one can guess what it will be unless they come and see. I actually feel an eagerness in going to those blogs because I know they have something in store for me.
