{"id":271,"date":"2010-03-03T12:56:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:37:30","slug":"nobody-reads-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/nobody-reads-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Nobody Read My Blog?<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I’ve suffered the ignominy of not receiving a single comment on a couple of my blog posts.\u00a0 The first time it happened, I shamelessly canvassed friends to put it right.\u00a0 I was not proud of myself, but it made me feel a little bit better.\u00a0 The second time, I took a more considered approach and decided to try and find out why.<\/p>\n

Here is what I found:<\/p>\n

I Talk Some Crap<\/h2>\n

I love words. Words are great. But I use too many.\u00a0 When ten words would do, you often see fifty or a hundred.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Must do better.\u00a0 I find rambling fun (not the walking kind.\u00a0 See? There I go again<\/em>) but you don’t have enough time to read all my rambling and that of all the other blogs you follow.<\/p>\n

Here’s a Wordle <\/a>of my blog content. As you can see, it’s very random indeed. Maybe I need some more direction, or to split my blog up a bit…?<\/p>\n

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What Gets Written About<\/p><\/div>\n

I Post At The Wrong Time<\/h2>\n

Google Analytics and Google Reader tell me the hard truth: I post most of my blog entries at about 1pm.\u00a0 You read blogs between 12 noon and 1pm.\u00a0 So my post is a day old if you read it.\u00a0 Also, the automatic thingummydoofer <\/a>that posts my new blog entry to twitter does it after your lunch hour has finished.<\/p>\n

There’s not much I can do about this.\u00a0 I get a lunch break, during which I write my posts.\u00a0 By the time I’ve written them, attached and edited photos, corrected my spelling and rubbish html, etc., you’re all back at work.\u00a0 I just hope you don’t mind reading them late – I need to work out how to remind you to do that at the beginning of your lunch breaks, though.<\/p>\n

I Need Help To Get More Subscribers<\/h2>\n

From the stats I’ve got my hands on, there are 15 subscribers to this blog via Feedburner, 3 from Google Reader and 8 Google Friends.\u00a0 Now that you’ve realised you’re in such a select group, rather than a crowd of Papal Mass proportions, there are probably even fewer \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I need better ways to get my blog in front of people, automatically (but carefully and ethically<\/em>)and via the people I know.\u00a0\u00a0 Or failing that, just tell your friends to read my bloody blog! … please. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I downloaded the Arkayne <\/a>plugin recently, with the intention of finding other blogs I could link to automatically and broaden my exposure to other blogs.\u00a0 This would help me read from a wider pool of writers, but also send my links to other people.\u00a0 The sad truth though, is that Arkayne doesn’t seem to have enough members who like what I like.\u00a0 I’m going to stick with it though, for a while at least, to see if I get any interesting new knowledge or visitors.<\/p>\n

Can any of you recommend plugins or tools that will be handy?<\/p>\n

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