What I learned in ten years of blogging

Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by heavyset_go on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:30PM (#18717416)

This is true.

If you run your blog like a business, as in you have a real need for growth and to turn a profit, you will need to pump out content on a regular basis.

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by ghaff on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:57PM (#18717689)

>If you run your blog like a business

That is a big "if" though. A lot of blogs don't try to be businesses. Personally, I use my personal blog to write about things I'm interested in writing about whether it's hobby-related stuff or technology. About a year ago I was thinking about starting a separate travel and food blog I was going to be more serious about and quickly realized I really couldn't be bothered.

If you're going to run a blog as a business, you also probably need to have a clear area of focus and I'm just not interested in doing that. A lot of my tech stuff also ends up running in other places these days where it gets better readership anyway.

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by baby on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:09PM (#18721281)

if you're taking advice on blogging, it's to have a successful blog. Otherwise why would you be taking advice? Just write whenever you want and whatever you want.

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by coldtea on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:57PM (#18717683)

Well, Daring Fireball hardly writes 1-2 posts a month (and usually small), and yet..

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by heavyset_go on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:05PM (#18717763)

Daring Fireball is an outlier and a holdover from another era.

For every Daring Fireball, there are 100 blogs neither you nor I have probably heard of that are profitable businesses.

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by baby on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:10PM (#18721289)

That's not true at all. He writes several posts a day.

https://daringfireball.net/

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by coldtea on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:07AM (#18724954)

That's no true at all. Where did you get that?

He averages about 5 posts a month, and has months where he writes 1 post:

https://daringfireball.net/archive/

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Re:What I learned in ten years of blogging by 1123581321 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:06PM (#18773468)

Click the RSS feed or the homepage. The archive is only to essays. The more frequent link summaries keep his audience engaged between essays.

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