Comments on: 5 More Ways to Building a Better Blog (Steps 6-10)

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:08:06 +0000

Thanks Askar!

By: Askar

Askar — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 04:56:30 +0000

Well worth it. Good job.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:30:50 +0000

Well, Yvonne, I think that these are meant to be a guide, not ‘rules’ per se.

For someone who has over 200 subs for their feed, I take it you’re someone who speaks from experience anyway. ;)

Specifically: yes, it does work for some blogs and not all; I suspect that the ones that “work” and “succeed” (by whatever definition you use) are ones that either succeed in spite of it, or, whose readers are so enthralled by other aspects of the blogger that it just doesn’t matter.

Their writing style.
Their personality.
Their “life” — and as such they can blog about whatever they want, and it still “focused”.

Thanks again for stopping by,
tony.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:52:22 +0000

Great accompanying piece to a great post :)

I disagree, however, with your first point about focusing on a particular subject. I find that that not only limits readership, but also burns me out more quickly as I get bored of writing about the same thing over and over.

It works for some blogs, but it doesn’t have to be applied to all of them.