Writing, Among Other Things
Well, calling it a break would be misleading because it has been more than 15 months since I have posted anything on the blog. Almost a year and a half. It was more of a stop than a break.
Calling it “coming back” now is also misleading as it can’t be called that until I become regular at posting here, which I intend to do. I am not sure if I had many regular readers, but if there were any, and you are one of them, I would like to apologise for making you wait so long for the “coming back”.
Quotes are mostly encouraging, and are often shared on social media sites as a source of inspiration. I often go through them to get ideas for new blog posts. Recently, while looking for quotes on writing, I, however, came across quotes that can actually scare new writers.
Don’t believe me? Check these out.
I don’t remember the exact number, but I have been following Seth Godin’s blog for a few years now. He has a blog that breaks a few rules of blogging – the blog is hosted on typepad and does not have comments enabled – yet his blog’s twitter account has more than 500 thousand followers. I am sure most of us would be happy with one third of that number.
I have often wondered what it is that makes his blog work, and I have come up with a few things that he does that make people fall in love with his blog. I think these can be used by bloggers, and writers alike to improve their craft.
If you have been blogging for any length of time, I am sure you must have used a blog surfing website like Blogexplosion or Entrecard. A lot of people I have talked to are not very fond of surfing sites because they believe that most visitors from such sites are mindlessly clicking the widgets without paying attention to the content of the blog.
Though this contention is true for most people, yet over the years I have found several interesting blogs as well as several regular visitors to this blog through the blog surfing websites.
So far on my blog, The YA’s Dogtown, I’ve received two large bursts of traffic from Tumblr and Reddit. Both were 500+ views on the same day.
The first was from a high-profile Tumblr blog, which reblogged the link to one of my older posts. The second was from a Reddit group, for a guest post over at YA Indie.
You would think that I would be giddy from these referrals and have a large increase in followers, but that wasn’t the case in both incidents.
The end result? Two comments, and no new subscribers.
The crowd passed through, but didn’t stay around.
You Got to Convert.
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