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Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

benpettit — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:58:21 -0000

haha yeah I'm voting for ted nugent as a write in. I don't even own a gun but I love this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QjEL0uUgo

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

fpettit — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:56:04 -0000

Let's start again. David, your two points were that:

1- Luck, does not play as big of a part as I stated.

2- Posting timely can help.

I agree with Ben in part. You did kind of miss the point. When you try all the blogging gimicks out there its easy to lose sight of why you are blogging in the first place. My point is that what you can control is blogging not for SEO but because you want to. You can also control the quality of the content you put out.

Which leads me back to the luck part. It is not easy to predict which content will be successful and which content will not. Certainly there are factors involved that increase your chances but then you risk losing perspective. Are you really adding that much content value to the blogosphere if you are just posting to be successful. I do not think content should be geared solely around SEO.

My point was and still is write good content about what you want when you want and the audience will arrive.

The rest as I said is just bologna.

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

KnightKnetwork — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:19:05 -0000

I find your overly judgmental attitude, naivety, and poor reading
comprehension refreshing! Do you perhaps have a political radio show or
newsletter I could subscribe to?

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

benpettit — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:32:43 -0000

Well I'm taking from your first post that you blog everyday for SEO purposes. My question is why do you care about SEO for a blog? Is there some kind of financial gain to be had for you that motivates this? If so, yeah you missed the point completely. If not, never mind.

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

KnightKnetwork — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:55:40 -0000

Not sure what's the point?

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

benpettit — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:04:32 -0000

I'm not sure that's really the point though. If you write crappy content, it's just noise. No one really cares about it. Sure you might get some hits or something but is that the point? Some blog about life and their thoughts. Others actually think through those thoughts to form rational opinions or even theory's about how some thing should or could be.

I guess were edging on the fine line of what exactly is the difference between journalism, blogging, and noise?

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

Cousin Rachel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:57:06 -0000

I am a new reader and I agree, write what you want to write. Be who you like to be. Let God sort out the rest!

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

KnightKnetwork — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:20:55 -0000

I'm going to disagree with a couple of points. You wrote a good post and you had a day that's much better than average. How was that lucky? Luck helps but it certainly doesn't matter more than anything else. The bigger blogs got more views because they are bigger. People aren't going to wake up and ask themselves if Toluu had any new enhancements and then go hit Google (you'd win if they did).

Posting timely can be important too, it can certainly help w/ Google and lets you promote your post on the people that follow later on or they might even link back to you - with services like Zemanta providing related link suggestions, getting your post out there first can be beneficial.

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

calebelston — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:02:12 -0000

Franklin,

I just have to say, we saw a solid amount of traffic because of your post and the shares and other distribution. Toluu is where it is because of many fantastic bloggers like yourself, and so I want to make sure you continue to have the opportunity to see what we are launching so you can post something thoughtful (like you did) rather than just something reactionary.

I know a few people in Toluu are now subscribed to your feed and I hope we can help you grow your readership 1 reader at a time!

Caleb
Toluu

Re: Write When and What You Want To: The Rest Is Bologna

eng1ne — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:45:30 -0000

I agree with you here. Thanks for the link back, but I think I actually come to the same conclusion as you here, that for a small blog it doesn't make a lot of sense to post an insane amount in a short period of time. It's better to concentrate on quality.

I alluded a bit, but didn't cover a lot of the tips you cover here.

I would like to add something: When I started my blog, I decided that I would not try to 'break' a story. I decided I wanted to concentrate on writing more in-depth posts about products and services.

That said, I admit that I got caught up on the excitement of the Toluu updates and kinda forgot my rule. I am glad I could contribute to running up some well-deserved publicity for Caleb, but it really was well covered by some big names.

Finally, I'm sorry I didn't get you re-added to my RSS reader until today.. as you know I dumped all my feeds and I am re-adding them as I 'rediscover' them. That oversite has been corrected, though, and you are back on my reading list!