So You Wanna Blog, Do You?
Ah, I remember the good ol’ days of blogging. Well, actually the days when the contraction ‘blog’ hadn’t yet been widely used. Blogs were just ‘weblogs’ back then (for me, circa 2000) and I took quite a big of loving (at least to my face) ridicule as I tried to spread the word about the coming phenom. I knew that blogging (or weblogging) would change the face of journalism and the way we communicate forever.
No, that’s a lie. I never thought that. I thought blogging was a kind of fun thing I did on the web, primarily of interest to computer nerds like myself. When it entered the mainstream, I was less surprised than my formerly ridiculing friends, but not by a huge margin.
The interesting thing about those days, is the traffic you’d generate with a mostly uninteresting collection of your thoughts. Sure, my blog was occasionally interesting and I’d get the occasional bit of flow (traffic via links) from the A-list, but for the most part, it was of little interest to readers who didn’t know me.
Didn’t stop me from getting hundreds of visitors a day, however. But, sadly (or maybe happily), those days are over. To get a lot of traffic blogging today, you have to both write really compelling content and publicize it well with an assortment of tools, good design and SEO. And for me, that’s revitalized the industry and makes it even more interesting.
If your object is to make money with your blog(s), here’s a great post from DoshDosh about how to do that.
