A successful blog has to appeal to other bloggers
By Mike | November 12, 2007
I can’t remember ever seeing it before, but it kind of just of occurred to me that a successful blog’s audience is usually made up of mostly other bloggers.
Who else understands RSS, feeds, technorati, linkbacks, comments and PageRank other than people who actually have a blog?
Of course you will get some people who bookmark your blog and some people will find you through search engines, but to get a lot of RSS readers and comments you need to be able to write about stuff that for most of the time interests other bloggers.
I think you have to be honest that people who don’t blog, just don’t get what it is all about. I think in many ways this is why Problogger, Shoemany and John Chow are so popular.
Perhaps some celebrity and political blogs could prove this theory wrong, but I think my theory holds the majority of the time.
Anyone want to prove me wrong?
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8 Responses to “A successful blog has to appeal to other bloggers”
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9:28 pm on November 14th, 2007
No I’m not going to prove your wrong. Instead I want to say “you are right”. Why? Because I’m a blogger who subscribe your RSS and read your blog from time to time.
5:12 am on November 19th, 2007
As the Baby Boomers get older, the next generations will become more tech and blog savy and then reading and writing blogs will be the new standard.
Today, I think 95% of all readers are bloggers.
http://www.notjohnchow.com
9:08 pm on November 22nd, 2007
For me it’s not so… as my maximum traffic comes from Google Search… it’s all about your content… The blogs I read regularly are those which I discovered which searching for something from search engine.
6:40 pm on November 26th, 2007
I agree with Jalaj, my blogs get the majority of traffic from people clicking on search results, only a handful of bloggers read it
11:58 pm on November 26th, 2007
Looks like I was wrong on this
Perhaps I should have said “it is easier to create a successful blog if it appeals with other bloggers”.
I don’t mean that it is not impossible to write a blog for a non-tech, non-blogging audience. You may just have to do a little more work, like offering email subscriptions or explaining how RSS works.
8:55 pm on December 9th, 2007
I prove you wrong, those guys may be have such readers but my readers are only search engige and social sites people.
3:54 pm on December 17th, 2007
I have both. Even the one blog that gets heavy traffic from people who don’t blog themselves benefits from blogs – they link to posts raising the post in the search engines and introduce it to new readers.
12:15 pm on October 21st, 2008
Hey,
My Name is, Joseph
there is a ton of stuff on here
this is my site:
http://ezZiiTF3.spaces.live.com/