What I had for Lunch Today

What I Had for Lunch…

By James Fowler
http://www.mywebsource1.com

I am sure you don’t care what I had for lunch today. It isn’t important that I was sitting in a little internet café, enjoying a cup of coffee, a tuna croissant sandwich and chips. You can enjoy life without the knowledge that I sat there listening to some light music watching people walk by the center of town. It was a rainy day in northeast Ohio and it was cold. Who cares?

What I had for lunch today was an epiphany. An epiphany is the realization of a philosophy. The philosophy is that to carry on a successful blog, is it important to write every day?

The dogma of internet blogging is to write the blog everyday. I have told dozens of clients as recently as last week that they should blog, blog, and blog again. Now, while I am in the process of writing my eBook on Social Networking, I think I may have been wrong. Every “serious” blogger will tell you that you should blog, but I am going against convention and my reasons are based in growing trends.

Blogging is becoming like advertising. It is everywhere. Technorati claims that the blogging community doubles in size every six months. This is about 175,000 new blogs each day. Now obviously, blogging cannot continue at this rate since there are a finite amount of people able to blog. But right now, there is just so much information out there, so why add to it? Building a readership isn’t about how much you write but how you communicate to the rest of the blogosphere. You get people to read your blog by networking with others. It is a community and to be successful, you must be social and add to the community. People can read only so much and at a rate of one blog per second, a subscriber base is difficult to maintain. Readers will stay loyal, however, if you socialize with them and share ideas.

Blogging became the phenomenon that it is because of the ability to use the RSS feed system. By use of this, your blog is broadcast over the internet. However, as stated, the blogs are coming by so fast, it is impossible to find your blog. Readership will come through subscriptions. This is where I believe blogging too frequently can hurt again. Who will want a constant stream of blogs coming to them each day? If you subscribe to 20 blogs, and each one of the writers publish one article each day, you will be swamped with 100 articles in one work week! Who can read that much information? Some serious bloggers are posting more than one time a day!

My last thought on frequent blogging is that the quality of topics has got to suffer in the scramble to come up with new material. As my own readership grows, I find it harder to communicate with the people that have helped build my blog.

So keep the words short and simple. Blog when you have something to say. And keep in contact with the people that keep you writing. You will find that you have more time in the long run and that your stories will count. Happy Blogging!