Lowering standards
by Sapphire (April 8, 2007)
I’ve been killing myself for the past few weeks trying to come up with three posts a day for two different blogs… plus various posts for other blogs. That’s a helluva lot of hours writing, unless you’re content to post complete crap.
Not only does crap bore me; I think the blogosphere is so saturated, readers are getting more picky. Maybe not in the SEO blogworld, where people will faithfully comment on others’ blogs in hopes of getting backlinks and maybe getting let into the Linkic Friends Network(tm). But in the world of people reading blogs because they like reading them, posting crap is not really acceptable.
So I’ve lowered my “3 posts/day” to “2 posts/day”. This makes it so much easier for me to write something decent - and avoid burnout. Will it slow me down in the SERPs? You know, I doubt it. And even if it does, Project Mai Tai seems to be proving that other bloggers can bring you as much traffic as Google. Why try to figure out what Google wants when you know what blog readers want? Good posts.
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April 9th, 2007 at 9:29 am
I think that is what made me change my focus on what to develop and what to let go of, in terms of my websites/blogs. I mean, there are are so many sites out there - so many filled with random crap. They aren’t a pleasure to read. I’ve made some like that, and honestly lost interest in quickly. It just wasn’t worth the hours to do that and then not be happy with the end product.
I went ahead and decided to work on things that interest me - that I could honestly talk about, or just learn about along the way that I really enjoy. It’s a slow road, but you know I think I’m happier for it.
So I say good for you
April 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Right back at you!
Besides, if we want to earn money at stuff we don’t care about, there are plenty of jobs out there. Isn’t the whole point not just to make money, but to enjoy doing it?