Comments on: Three Months of Blogging: Some Lessons

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Best of WPShout 2009 | WPShout.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:35:02 +0000

[…] months in and I published a post where I whined a bit, complaining the posts that I’d spent a hard day’s night writing weren’t getting […]

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:10:31 +0000

That was an interesting read Alex. Your post on the magazine look is great and definitely ticks all the boxes for social media success, but I wouldn't give up on your long, discussion posts just yet.

With Pro Blog Design, I like to do a mix of the two. I started out like you, preferring the more discussion-y/article posts, but eventually realized that the social media bait was what brought in droves of traffic.

But you always have to keep pride in your blog. If it isn't perfect in your eyes, it wont be in anyone else's. For that reason, I now have a mix of the two. The social media might get new traffic to your site, but your subscribers will probably appreciate the well thought out articles. You have to keep both parties happy 🙂

Either way, good luck with the re-branding! 😀

By: Alex Denning

Alex Denning — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:24:16 +0000

Thanks for the feedback delos. I'm going to have a big rejiggle of posting schedule when I relaunch the site, and hopefully even start screencasting again!

By: Alex Denning

Alex Denning — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:22:44 +0000

Cheers Dave. I've thought about it for a while and it just seems right thing to do at this moment in time. I'll work out how to transfer all you lovely RSS readers. Hopefully.

By: Dave Pancost

Dave Pancost — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:47:27 +0000

Hi, Alex,

I appreciate your candor in this post. I, too, have just started blogging. I started in March of 2009. When I started I didn't know what I would ultimately focus on. It was more or less just a place to practice writing and discover some of my passions.

Now that I've been blogging for a few months, I've learned what truly gets me going and where I want to take my blog. So I am going to be doing some changes also. I'm currently working on developing an appropriate theme that will capture my focus and allow me to learn some more of the insides of WP. Your blog (to which I'm subscribed by RSS) has been very good for helping me do just that.

I wish you the best as you implement the changes you talked about. It's scary making changes mid-stream, so to speak, but if you really feel that's what you need to do, then ya gotta do it. 🙂 Go get 'em, and keep us informed on when you need us to modify our RSS feed — I don't want to miss any of your posts.

By: delos

delos — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:35:17 +0000

This was an interesting post for me. On my own blog, I am finding something similar to your observations except that in my case, the well thought out posts aren’t really popular. The audiences have different expectations, coding requires more in depth explanation than my topic and your posts are better worded than mine … but I mention all that only to say this:

I think there is also room on Nometech for shorter and not-so-in-depth posts. A quick couple of related wordpress tips, some new bit of useful code, practical theme tweaking or even general blogging advice would all go down well, I think.

Don’t stop your longer posts, of course, but if you get an idea that only requires a paragraph or two to show us something useful then that’s okay by me. Readers enjoy that kind of variety too.

Keep up the good work.