Blogging Lessons Learned

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I have made great progress with this blog in the short time that it has been in existence.  In 29 days, I have moved from an Alexa rank of over 17, 000,000 to being poised to go under 600,000.  In all honesty I have not been doing the promotional tasks that I really should be.  I have published 1 or 2 guest posts, commented here and there, but my efforts have been haphazard at best.  I will try to do better in those areas in the coming months.  I am also guilty of not posting as often as I did the first 3 weeks.  That one I won’t apologize for though.  I am developing some new sites, and that requires time.  Having said that, I am compelled to point out that I am still averaging slightly more than 1 post per day.

I have learned some things that are a bit of a surprise in writing this blog.  The most surprising fact is which articles have attracted the most comments.  I had thought that posting articles about keywords and the things I am learning abut how to improve your ranking in the search engines would be of interest to the readers of this blog.  I was wrong.  The keyword articles were among the least commented on.

The single article that received the most comments was the article I wrote that was critical of Steve Pavlina.  Following closely behind that one article were the articles I wrote about some of the tools I use in writing this blog.  As tempting as it might be to write more posts that are critical of some of the well-known bloggers, that isn’t what I or this blog is about.  That was a sort of a special case, and I gave credit where credit is due.  Steve has written much that people have found helpful.  Here’s a link for those who may be unfamiliar with said article. A Criticism of Steve Pavlina.

So where do I go from here?  I shall continue to write articles on promotion, and the tools of blogging.  Probably fewer SEO articles for now.  Just in case…SEO is search engine optimization for those who may be new to all this blogging stuff.  SEO is what gets your site ranked higher in the search engines (along with backlinks).  I will start writing some articles on writing too. To sum up, fewer keyword articles, more articles on the tools of blogging, and some new articles on writing.  And maybe some off the wall articles every now and then too.  Thus endeth the lesson.

As always, comments are encouraged.