Most of us begin to blog without working out an organized plan. If we don’t like the direction our blog is headed we can make adjustments in order to redirect it. This article explores these questions:
What are your thoughts on blog success and blog failure?
How do you define a successful blog?
How do you determine whether your blog is successful or not?
How do you make failing blog a success?
Chris Guthrie says:
The problem with blogs is how easy it is to create them. The barriers to entry are set so low that anyone can start a blog and the symptoms I outline slowly creep in after that new blog excitement dies out and many people just let them fail. …
If you suffer from any one of these symptoms it could mean failure is looming on the horizon and now is the time to sink or swim. 5 Symptoms of Blog Failure
Next time you think about quitting your online ventures after a failure, think again! It just might be the thing you needed to give yourself a boost. — Ritu B. Pant
Some observations and advice on blogging failure and success
1. Aim at the center of the target
When setting your goals be prepared to make an honest evaluation of why you want to achieve a particular goal. Once you’ve identified your goal, and set your priorities head straight for it, like an arrow. Too often people let distractions and obstacles get in the way. Long story short; “Just DO it!”
2. Change course when required
Setting sequential goals, monthly or annually does not mean the dates are set in stone. Successful bloggers are flexible, resilient and adept at making changes. They understand failure to be a valuable lesson that they learn from. They accept every failure as a lesson in how to succeed in the future and then they make the adjustments required to achieve success.
3. Have fun, take blogging breaks, accommodate guest bloggers
- Blogging is supposed fun and if it isn’t your passion then you won’t go the distance. It’s up to you to keep the 8 irresistible principles of having fun in play so your blogging remains enjoyable.
- Be cautious not to over commit to social networking obligations. On one hand, spending too much time social networking cuts into your blogging time. On the other, adhering to a too tightly regimented schedule, you may hinder your creativity and make your writing less engaging.
- If you need a break – take one. If you need to cut back – do so. Also consider the value there can be in arranging for guest bloggers to contribute articles consistent with the themes in your blog and its brand. Return to your blogging energized and full of new ideas for the blog.
4. Longevity and blogging
If you intend to be a long term blogger then what’s key is balancing your productivity with your creative inspiration, while challenging yourself to be the best blogger you can be, and affirming that you are becoming a better blogger day by day. Granted your readers do affirm your efforts, but a positive attitude, a firm grip on reality, and self affirmation are powerful tools for achieving success.
Discussion:
I think my blog is a success because it’s achieving its purpose. What I blog about is being used by others to improve their blogging skills and their blogs. I have set realistic goals, assigned priorities to them, and I’m working towards achieving them.
I’m interested to hear how my readers define success and failure in terms of their own blog.
What are your thoughts on blog success and blog failure?
How do you define a successful blog?
How do you determine whether your blog is successful or not?
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When I started my blog, my only goal was to keep up with a couple of friends I’d known for years and years through various places online and whom I was keeping up with through their blogs. The library I worked for sent me to a class on Social Web Literacy and I decided to take the plunge. After going on three years, I consider myself to be less than a third of the way through my ten year goal of becoming a professional writer and blogger. Imho, I wasted too much time in the early years chasing, Chasing, CHASING social traffic. I’ve cut back on much of that and now most of my traffic is from search engines, even though it is not as heavy as it was at the height of my social period. On Blog Catalog, my site is the number one non paid listing in my category and also recently got a kind of cool Top 100 sash over my screenshot. I earn some money from advertising and some commissions from Amazon from book sales. I earn somewhat more from free lance writing projects (although those are on hold just now due to my disability). Am I successful blogger? Who knows. But going into year three I’m still sticking with it, when so many of the blogs that were hot two years ago have gone by the wayside.
Hi Alan,
How nice it is to receive a comment from you. Thanks for sharing your own blogging progression.
We have some common ground. I too have learned not to spend my day bunny hopping from one social network to the next. I put an end to that intense activity in December as it was ineffective as well as being a colossal time suck. Both of my blogs get search engine traffic and I know how to increase it.
I wish you all the best at BC and congrats! on your blog ranking. When my 2 blogs were at BC both were the very top of the blogs in their 2 listed categories and under their 6 tags. MEH … blog directories don’t provide much traffic to blogs. Most bloggers link to them to get a backlink and the value of such backlinks can be dubious. And when toolbars are introduced to direct link juice to the blog directory, rather than directly to blogs listed in the directory then the value of being listed is questionable.
http://www.seowizz.net/2009/10/blog-directories-seo.html
http://www.seowizz.net/2009/08/directories-dont-work-apparently.html
So here you are at the three year mark and looking forward to a great blogging future. I’m sure you will achieve your goal before 7 years expires. I’m also happy for you and I’m sending you all my best wishes.
Love and peace,
TiTi
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Though blogging as a personal journal is wonderful in itself, I absolutely love the way in which my blog directly enhances my feature film project that my blog follows. In other words, writing posts about my filmmaking journey on the blog is moving my actual film along.
I post about script decisions I must make and directorial approaches, so the post itself helps me develop and make decisions. It’s great, so a success, even if no one reads it – LOL It’s a success because it’s assisting in my bigger goal: making a feature film….
@christopher
It’s great to hear that the blogging you are doing is so closely connected to your project and that the blogging is helping move you closer to achieving your objective. Stay focused on the target and blog on!
Hi TiTi,
I just wanted to say that I follow you on twitter, as well as reading your blog and love the way you “balance” the business part of your work, with the dare I say spiritual.
I for one belive the right combination of the two is instrumental in acheiving anything in life, whether in business, or in your personal life.
Thanks,
Neil
@Neil
It’s great to meet you and I’ll be pleased to follow you as well. I’ve read what all the tweeting gurus say and I’m a failure when it comes to providing “value” in 140 character type bytes. I gave never been gifted as small talk. Sole pursuits like stargazing and daydreaming are what I do best. ;) Thanks so much for your kind words about balance. I truly appreciate them.
I think your blog can be called a failure when it still only gets 60-100 visits per day after 6 months :P.
Truthfully though when you are unable to find anything to blog about, or you find yourself constantly talking to yourself then you could label your blog a failure if its been almost a year.
@dreamsburnedred
I think your one year mark is a good one. Receiving a hosting renewal notice evokes a reality check. Those who have no audience are left with an expensive online journaling habit and will undoubtedly think long and hard about renewing. However, that provocation doesn’t exist if one’s blog is being free hosted.
Continuing to blog when you have a very small audience comes down to connections and quality of communication. If the connections are strong and the relationships are growing then continuing even if you have to pay for hosting may be the decision that suits.
I find that if I quit a thing, anything, for long enough, I will confirm my fears. I might then think that I am a failure. The reverse is also true. If I get back at it sooner rather than later, I will see that I have even more to offer than I thought when I quit. And that would be a success wouldn’t it?
It seems that creative breaks (#3) from writing or painting, or whatever your mode of expression is, can feed the muse. Apparently the muse likes the taste of creative silence. My paintings for instance: I have taken many breaks from my art, but strangely, I find that when I return to it, I have progressed from where I left off, as if I had been painting all along.
So it helps to remember that when we run dry and feel blocked, we are not failing, we are simply creating in the silence of our absence.
:-)
John
@John
Like you I do take breaks and return with more to give. I haven’t quit many pursuits in my life, except trying to learn to play a keyboard. In all others things I seem to experience intense on again and off again love affairs followed by rest periods. I can be extremely creative when it comes to painting pictures on the backs on my eyelids. ;)
Oooh, I was trying to find your contact form but couldn’t, so I’ll let you know here that I tried to tweet this using your tweetmeme button but it came up with an error stating that the URL pointed to the wrong story.
Best,
john
@John
Thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it. We can’t use the plugin here at wordpress.com so I tried to use the shortcode several times and although I tried inserting both the short link and the full link I get the same result you did so I removed the retweet button. When I have the time to explore this again I will do so. I’m probably doing something “small” wrong I just don’t know what it is. :(
When I first started my blog it was more of a journal type thing. Some days I would state “I feel miserable” and that would be the end of the post. I had to learn how to do it. I’ve deleted those posts since. My goals are just to make a difference to at least one person. I know I have made that difference. On My Thoughts Always child abuse related things are typically the top search. That was my intent.
My Habitat Home is unique. There are other blogs about building a home through Habitat for Humanity but they are so short and brief that it doesn’t give anyone much of an idea of what you go through. I think it’s on the front page for my title. People who are wanting to know specific things about Habitat show up there. Even those who worry that a Habitat homeowner will ruin their property value. I think they are both successful. They have their purpose and they have served it.
@Shirley
It’s good to hear from you. :) As you know I’m a reader of all your blogs. Paraphrasing what you have shared then when blog is serving its intended purpose its purpose it’s a success. You have successful blogs. Congrats!
This post and your other posts on the basics of blogging, have inspired me to think more deeply about the whole purpose of my blog. I didn’t go through the basic steps you advised of really thinking through the name, the brand, the audience and all that. I just started blogging. But now my vision is evolving to a great extent due to the many stimuli I’ve found in your blog. Since I only started blogging a few months ago, it’s good to be rethinking all this early on. It’s likely I’ll be changing my my url and blog name and thinking it all through more thoroughly. Thank you TimeThief.
@SandraLee
Most of us just dive into blogging and creating content and that’s the way to go when you start. It’s the content that is the audiences attractor. By the time 6 months has passed we usually come up for air and start looking around. That’s when we begin to develop more clarity about what the purpose of the blog is, what its brand will be, and what improvements we have to make to achieve our purpose. That process frequently leads to a blog renovation and developing new approaches when it comes to presenting our blog and its content to a target audience. I’m so happy to hear that you are finding value in my blog posts. :)
I belong to a large minority in the blogging community I suppose. My avocation is writing, poetry specifically. A simple blog and free like many, so my “requirements” for success are not at all like commercial or more “serious” sites. Eight months old now, and all is fine by me. More than fine. And neither do I write and post in silence, unconnected to other on-line writer communities. Readership might be minute by many standards, but I care more about the quality of interactions than quantity. Numbers alone mean nothing to me.
And in the greater world of writing, and so many desirous of being “really” published, that attitude for me has been totally transformed. I consider my blog postings, my writing, already really published. Further, I deeply value the interactive nature of blogging. What formally published book would likely ever generate real comments and feedback? And tell me really how large a distribution would any poetry book likely get? I have readers right now from literally across the world. That is success to me!
There’s still blog “homework” to do, connections to make, hopefully more readers to slowly grow (and in like kind, appreciate), but the first purpose is to write and challenge myself within my craft. And that is an on-going process already realized.
And thank you for your blogging tips and suggestions here. While all may not so directly apply to me, some do and in useful practical ways. My appreciation for your work.
@Neil
I’m happy to hear that some of what I post is useful to you, and I’m so glad you took the time to share what your approach to blooging has been.
Your purpose is so clearly stated: to write and challenge myself within my craft.
There are many writers online and some do prefer to proceed in silence while others prefer interaction. I’m of two minds myself. In the case of this blog I do require interaction. However, in the case of a couple of my other blogs I don’t and will continue to post to them whether or not I have readers who comment.
Thanks so much for participating in this discussion and best wishes with your writing.
Hello my favorite Blogger,
Big hug to you for coming up with such great stuff :) I just tried the tables thing for my sidebar…and it worked like a charm. Go have a peek….and please give me some more suggestions on the design of my blog. Am gonna be celebrating the blogs 1st brithday tomorrow.
And what makes blogs a success…ohh its the readers and the connections. If i do whatever i do with my whole heart and soul and enjoy it..success is inevitable. You dont give up on something you love right…:)
Big hug and much love,
Z~
~Positive Provocations~
@Zeenat
Well happy 1st blog anniversary to you. Your blog is a wonderful one and I enjoy your articles very much. You make your readers think and your advice is excellent. I’m glad to be among your admirers.
Love and Peace
TT
Any metrics you could share for us data-oriented folk? Number of subscribers, readers, commenters? I love numbers.
@worddreams
There are no baseline metrics that I can provide. There are many number targets you can set if that’s your inclination and many ways you can measure them.
For example you can locate similar sites and compare your site’s metrics.
http://www.similar-site.com/
http://www.alexa.com/
http://www.quantcast.com/
http://www.cubestat.com/
(1) You can set a target of publishing 3 – 5 ( 5- 7, etc.) posts per week.
(2) You can set a target of receiving X number of comments per post, per week, per month, etc.
(3) You can set traffic stat targets. If you wish to compare traffic stats and demographics of your site to another that’s possible by using visitor tracking systems. See visitor tracking on this page http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/popular-posts/
My questions are personal ones.
What are your thoughts on blog success and blog failure?
How do you define a successful blog?
How do you determine whether your blog is successful or not?
How do you make failing blog a success?
Thanks for that thorough answer. I’m going to run through the metrics you suggested, see if they answer my question. You’re right–as I think about it, it’s mostly about what I want to get out of my blog. Altruism” Improve my writing? Camaraderie with my peers? What? Every time I think I know, it changes.
You’ve given me a lot to work with.
@worddreams
I was happy to provide the links. Best wishes with your blog.
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Mighty good advice for someone (me!) who’s just tryna get set up– it’s so easy to get obsessed with mechanics and forget one’s goals.
And if this isn’t too off-topic: followed a link to one of your prior posts which had this to say about successful people:
“Successful people don’t give their power away by choosing to be overly sensitive to what others think of them. They don’t give their power away by choosing to be “set in their ways” and resistant to change. Instead they are flexible, resilient and adept at making changes.”
We’ve all been warned a million times about being overly sensitive and set in our ways (do we listen? no), but I’ve never heard these mistakes equated to giving one’s power away. Man! A real kick in the pants, that (the good kind– thanks!).
Cheers and Happy Easter!
Mark
@Mark
Aha … you followed the link to my private blog. Yes that’s my advice. Never give your power away by refusing to adapt. Change is the only constant. :)
Happy Easter!
Hey timethief!
I read through Chris Guthrie’s article and related the five symptoms to my blogging practice. And with that, I have determined that my blogging practice is far from being a failure, although I do experience some of the mentioned symptoms.
First, is on the seriousness of blogging. I actually don’t take blogging seriously but I am passionate about the secondary benefits that it provides–writing, communication, and helping other people. After all, blogging is a form of social networking. It gives me an opportunity to keep my writing skill in check by giving an outlet that allows publication to an audience. It also helps me get in touch with people I’ve never met before but possess similar interests as I have. And by touching other lives, I am able to help them in difficult situations, even just through writing.
My second point would be on posting frequency. I admit, I don’t have a regular schedule for posting. This is because I only want to publish blog posts that I think are worth sharing with the online world. Also, I take time to come up with the best facts and points for a blog post, before finally publishing it. Another reason is because I see blogging as a hobby; when I have spare time, that’s when I go online. It may contradict my first point of communicating and helping other people, but I think staying online too much can affect your regular activities of daily living.
Lastly, is on the “make money online” practice. A few years ago, I wanted to start a blog, monetize it, and make it a viable source of income. Fast forward to the present, I have come to the conclusion that this practice is not really stable. The Internet is fast paced so it will be difficult to make money from it. Sure, there are thriving online businesses, but these are run by experts! We will have to study online money-making to be truly successful in it. So, I deleted past blogs and set up a new one with no ads, no product referrals, no monetization of any sort. And I am thankful for it.
I believe that successful blogs are those that allow the owner to accomplish even just a single positive life goal. It may be affirmation, building up self-esteem, proving something to yourself, encouraging persons and causes, etc. Successful bloggers are also those that continue writing about their passions and experiences and share them with others in hopes of inspiring positive change. As long as the blogger is able to bring forth a positive change in someone or somewhere in the world, he/she is a worthy, helpful, and successful blogger.
P.S.: I read on your announcement banner that you had a gale. I never experienced one. Would it be safe to go out in the open in a gale. I hope everything’s fine in your area.
Cheers!
This has been a very helpful and inspiring discussion. It’s wonderful to see that some mark their success by being able to help even just one person and that quality counts as much as quantity to many. I went back to the basics and used your article “Creating a Blog” to review my blog intentions and description. It is such a useful article. It’s wonderful to see how my intentions have evolved and the tweeks I need to make to get the blog in line with them. Still not totally sure about Neutra but am still trying it out. I see you didn’t change, to Neutra that is! :-)Thanks, again.
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I would say I enjoy blogging I am pretty good at it. Most people blog around one topic and get success but I dabble into many areas and topics. Surprisingly my audience like it and want more. It works for some.
Key to blogging is – Do it often. Be creative and interact. It is like any brand.
@Corve
Thanks for sharing what works for you and your readers and also for the excellent advice.
Best wishes
I think the easiest way to prevent burn-out is to blog about something that interests you in the first place. When you write because you feel like you “have” to write then it quickly becomes a chore and not a product of enjoyment. That doesn’t mean it always has to be FUN, but a blog should at least be enjoyable and exciting, not another mundane thing to add on top of the daily chore list.
@Travis
Welcome. I agree with you. The number of blogs that are abandoned in less than a year’s time is huge. I’ve been blogging for several years now and i I wasn’t passionate about the subject matter I would be long gone. Thanks for commenting and best wishes with your blogging.
I like your article about how success/failure as a blog is measured. My blogs have different measurements, my DragonBlogger.com I started with the intention to earn and monetize, so its success / failure is measured by how well it earned for me. My poetry blog is strictly fun, I don’t give two craps about how many visits it gets, I just write my poetry and put it out there so its stress free. It only fails when I don’t feel like doing it anymore. My personal blog is also my diary and I don’t have success/fail measurements for it because I just do it for fun with no active promotion or intention to set goals for that blog.
I do enjoy doing guest blogging but had found myself falling victim to not having enough time to write 60 articles plus 30 poems on my own blogs every month. I think setting small achievable goals is key, don’t make a goal to get your Alexa under a certain amount because this is largely out of your control. Goals should consist of how many posts you can write in a month, how many comments you can leave or guest posts on other sites.
I completely agree that blogging should be fun and enjoyable, or else you will suffer burn out and neglect or abandon it altogether. Don’t become obsessed and high strung, I know too many bloggers (myself included) who got bit by the blogging bug when they first started and they go gung ho writing 10 posts per day and then just end up in a void of not knowing what to do next and losing momentum.
@dragonblogger
Thanks so much for leaving this comment. I appreciate the sharing you did here and hope you will return again. :)
The term success and failure are relative. For some success with blogging will mean earning money, some will mean success is making more and more visits per day, month, year, some will mean making quality posts. I follow the last point. Now if making quality and unique posts is the target, then its success or failure will rely on if you can fulfil your posting targets, or writing targets. Making unique and quality content is not easy and require a lot of time, especially for people like me who do not have writing skills, and need time to express the idea in words.
Whenever i have an idea for a blog post, it starts from an outline, which i draft in a text editor, then experiment with it, and study about it in books, internet, discuss with people. And the more i come to know about the topic the post grows, and becomes large and complex and detailed, which again has to be revised several times to remove the unnecessary parts, incomplete, incorrect, redundant information, and at last ends with a structuring of the post so that readers can figure out what’s going on, and the links and references.
For me this is a very complex and tiring way to work, a lot of such posts are still in the mid way because i do not get time to finish them. I don’t know if the outcome is useful to the readers, but when i get satisfied with the post only then i publish it, else it stays offline in my disk. don’t know if this is a good way to make posts.
I am trying these days to go for more casual posts, which will contain much less information and would be shorter. From the comments of the readers, and the visits, and the links of my blog, i cannot say that this is a total success because my blog has a few posts (1year), but atleast it is not a failure.
What do you suggest me
If a blog gets moderate traffic from real referrers and visits to latest posts, then its moderately successful. That is a bonus on top of the satisfaction that blog writers feels when they tried to write a blog post topic that was worth reading or cross-referenced by others.
So for that success criteria to be used for a business related blog, it’s helpful.
What feels like abit like a failure but not really because I have not aggressively pushed my personal blog much. Partially due to my fear of more problems in attracting junk referrers or fake referrers from link farms (as timethief mentioned in one of her articles). So this fear can create a self-perpetuating cycle of low publicity.
I like my personal blog and the satisfaction of sharing a topic and offering views of my photos. This is another measure of success. But on the other hand, only a small group of real people are visiting it thus far. It’s a quandary because I truly do not want to blog too often on my personal blog since I know my writing quality will deterioriate if I get bored for the sake of writing just to fill daily blogspace.
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I am terribly discouraged and am debating whether to carry on.I have been blogging for 1 year this week.I love doing it.it’s truly my passion.I had some clear goals in mind when I started and have invested many hours on my posts, all 644 of them.I am a modest person and am not one to blow my own horn,but I think my content is very good and a little different from all the other inspirational imagery blogs out there.Despite doing all the proper moves ( commenting on other blogs,twittering, joining blog communities ) my readership is appalling ( less than 100 a day) and have an underwhelming 82 followers.I can go for weeks without 1 comment.I’m really ready to give up at this point.Maybe I need to take a hint. Any tips/advice?
This morning, I was ready to ditch my blog. It has become so discouraging to see on my stat page that I have more phantom referrers than “real” ones. On top of this, my Google visitors seem to be diminishing. I hope this is not related to the phantom referrers whose frequency may be giving me a less than favorable ranking with Google.
After 2 months with WordPress, I have 16 followers. Yesterday I had 10 visitors, 6 of whom were phantoms. I have to ask myself if it is worth the effort and time.
After mulling things over, reading this post, and making a great batch of yogurt, I’m ready to jump back in. Thanks for the lift — I needed it.
Kathleen
I am still so new to public blogging, and I know that I am still at the stage where I know that for me, it’s important to DO it – and continue doing it. Now that I am out in the blogger community (as opposed to writing private or friend locked diary style entries), I am researching the whole ‘how to blog’ part a little bit – and boy, blogging is serious business!
I’m amazed how many people are out for the big hits list, collect comments (but don’t bother to reply) and advertisers, are linked and network to a max… and make it their profession to blog.
It’s not at all what I want, I admit I am looking forward to some readership and interaction, but for me, at this point, it is more an exercise in discipline, writing and language skills. I am not sure how far this will go, and I know that my ‘scrapblog’ does not target a particular group or interest. Maybe I go there, maybe not.
This blog about blogging, is a valuable source for many and certainly a success.
It intrigues me, but I also understand, that there is no link to the ‘other side of you’…
Is it a success for you ?
I’m feeling a bit like Shawn, discouraged. I mean I have passion for blogging, and a passion for the niche. Not being an authority has caught up with me. I’m also wondering if a guest post can actually hurt a blog despite the number of views it receives, outstripping my own posts by a ratio of 50:1 …..? I’m a fairly good writer, and I know how to research. I’m beginning to learn how to link to authoritative related posts, and blogs. I don’t know much about building brand, if anything at all, but I felt I was doing that. I don’t think that now. It’s quite ironic to see a trackback to one of my own posts here, but I can’t help feeling discouraged. I knew how to deal with this type of discouragement when I was a guitarist, but blogging is a whole different tune. No pun intended. Best to you TiTi ….
Sometime ago I told you there are two kinds of bloggers – sprinters and stayers. It takes time to develop regular readers/subscribers. The number of comments compared to the number of page hits is always very low.
The Google sandbox debate arises when Google does not assign PageRank to a new website until after six (6) months. This is presumably to serve the purpose of giving new websites time to develop or disappear altogether. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/05/26/blog-strategy-google-sandbox-or-trustbox/
I think it’s premature for you to make any call on your blog other than how it has failed to meet your expectations. That maybe an indication that you need to change them.
No, unless it contains a link to a dodgy neighborhood, spam site or a blog banned by Google, etc. there can be no harm done and the visitors clicking in on it may also click into your posts. bad neighborhood checker here > http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
Summertime is the worst possible time to make any decision about a blog. Apparently, blog stats go down for many types of blogs during the summer months. I noticed this trend right after Memorial Day weekend. Now it seems like everyone in the world must be at the beach. After July 4, even Copyblogger is only posting three days a week (MTW) and taking a long weekend off till Sept. I know it can be discouraging but it’s just the ebb and flow of life. So my vote is chin up till September, keep blogging, and see how things are looking at the end of the year.
@Sandra
Thank you so much for the encouraging words, your comment really helped! I’m determined to be a “stayer” but still have a lot to learn about blogging. I thought about it lastnight, I have a lot of homework to do. I’ll be working of the first of many assignments starting today. Thanks again.
Continued Success Sandra!
Well that explains a lot, Sandra. Thanks for sharing that. I thought it was me…
Hi Sandra,
I have blogged for over 6 years now and all my blogs experience a significant drop in traffic every weekend and an even more significant drop in traffic every summer.
I have had several blogs and I have never had a blog that experienced a high number of visitors and comments within the first 6 months after founding the blog. In all cases it has taken at least a year for my blogs to demonstrate a significant increase in visitors and comments, despite weekend and summer time vacation fluctuations.
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