Why Do You Blog? Part 4
I want to cover what I feel is the most important reasons to blog.
Starting a blog because you enjoy writing is a great reason. You just want to be creative and share your creativity with others. Bloggers that started out this way are truly writing for their readers. The search engines are not important, just sharing.
The other reason for today is to interact with others. Starting a blog because you want to get to know people. again, you are writing for the readers and not the search engines.
Bloggers that have more personal reasons such as these are MUCH more likely to respond to comments that people post. If you contact them via email, you will almost certainly get a response. I believe you also get much better content, because they are writing to YOU.
If you write in this way, I believe you will also, in time, be able to suggest good products and make some money. If your content is solid, you WILL end up being considered an expert, so you have accomplished the other reasons I wrote about earlier in this series.
Here is where I am going to step out of line, and probably get slammed by the “guru’s”. Even though you do need to stay with your main topic sometimes, I feel that worrying about SEO when you write should be low on your list. Write from your heart and your blog will grow. I will admit, it probably won’t happen as fast, but it will still grow. I also feel that you can write about other topics, if that is what you desire, and you will still grow.
2 Quick examples of blogs I feel are written for these reasons are:
Site Sketch 101 is a great blog written by Nicholas Cardot that really teaches people how to blog, and the Extreme John.com blog which covers Wordpress very nicely.
There are so many others out there. If you run or read a blog you feel fits into this catagory, please tell us about it in the comments below.
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Hi Jim – I have to say that I go back and forth and tell my people to do the same. Sometimes I write well SEOd posts that are on a topic I like and most times I write what I want and then go back in and do some gentle SEOing to get it more “searchable”. To my way of thinking, it is great if you write interesting content but sad if no one is reading it because they can’t find it. Just my two cents!
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This is some great advice, thanks for sharing. I guess the point I was trying to make is that some people worry more about SEO than quality, and you can see it in their writing.
Nice article for all blogger !
Creating blog have different reason. Some people make blog to be in touch with people and to cummunicate with them and some people want to earn money through it.