Sunday, July 20, 2014

The Other Blog...

I am getting a little disheartened recently with my main blog at www.thepathfinderchronicles.com.  Reason why is I am pouring everything I can into keeping it improving and nothing seems to be working.  I realise that I have some problems with the blog, if they can be called problems, and I am not sure what I can do about them.

The list of problems;

  1. Name of the blog is a bit misleading as it is not just Pathfinder that I deal with, I have a broad focus
  2. The posts that I think would be very popular (like my encounter series) are just not attracting any interest
  3. Organisation of the blog needs to be cleaned up but to do that I will lose a massive amount of metrics.
  4. There is nowhere near enough conversation coming in from readers
I really want my blog to be a go to resource.  I read a blog from another site talking about numbers and they were talking about posts reaching 2000 views in a month.  I get NOWHERE near that amount of views.  In fact my highest viewed post has just around 2000 views now and it has been out for around a year and a half to two years.

I just want the blog to show continuous improvement BUT it has really gone absolutely nowhere with numbers etc. since the start of the year.  In all honesty I was working far less hard on it at the end of the year last year as I am now and there seems to be no reward for the work.

Anyone out in internet land able to give me a few ideas to try?

2 comments:

  1. Enjoy what your doing first and foremost, change the name of your blog, don't be afraid to move it. focus on creating content you enjoy and that you would use. Don't try to build it, let it grow organically and you will stop worrying about the numbers.

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  2. Man, I had a really thoughtful and even somewhat helpful reply typed up and then Google ate it. Just hit me up--hopefully, I'll hear the ding next time.

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