What am I doing here?

Even if you’re only getting 10-20 visitors per day, you should still be getting a comment every now and again. I’ve seen blogs with only 100 subscribers average 5-10 comments on every post. If you’re not getting any communication from your readers at all, then you’ve probably picked a topic that no one cares about but you.

Time to start over.

- It’s Time to Shoot Your Blog by Jonathan Morrow

I must be doing it all wrong – my blog gets less than one hundred hits per day, I see a legitimate comment perhaps once every two months (and even then, it may not be spam but it’s hardly legitimate – just some PR flack or backwater jerkoff with a grudge) – who would want to keep this up?

As much as I love Morrow’s cowboy analogy (and it is really quite good – the aforementioned article is worth reading for its “cowboy proverbs” alone), his analysis is lacking for the majority of people who do not quit blogging after their first year: some of us publish our thoughts and commentary because we feel it is simply worth doing.

I’m not writing to get rich. I’m not writing for an audience. I’m only questionably writing for myself.

Okay, that last item is far from true – I get a great deal of amusement out of the comments I receive from PR flacks and backwater jerkoffs – what I’m doing here may very well be a narcissistic masterpiece: consider it an ongoing chronicle (I have published a journal of one form or another since the late 1990′s) of my internet travels – something like a virtual tour of locations and ideas with the occasional pit stop in real-world happenings and nonsensical drivel.

What can I say to my defense?

I don’t have to say anything to my defense.

This is my blog.

Kick around a few posts for your amusement, post insipid lies about the industry you work for or your most incisive and witty insults, stare in bewilderment, get the fuck out in three seconds or less like 99.9% of my readers.

… and for all of you would-be millionaires clinging to aspirations of big money from pay-per-click advertising on the monstrosity of banners, ill-informed bullshit, and poorly-structured writing which you humbly refer to as your blog, take Morrow’s advice and get back to your multi-level marketing seminars.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 19:41:34 and is filed under Rants.

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