When I first started blogging it was just for fun, my first blog was more or less a message board for me and about five other like minded people to bounce ideas off of each other. If we had other readers, we didn’t have tracking software to watch them come and go. On that older blog I got comments from my little group on every single post and we had interactions and conversations. It was fun and I never thought about selling anything-never thought about pagerank, Alexa, or another of the other countless ways that bloggers use to keep score…
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What makes a Successful Blog?
My old blog was a success. I had ten faithful readers who commented on my every post, just as I commented on their every post. We would write things that were inspired by each other. We told jokes to each other and wished each other well on our various adventures. We were, in short, friends. It was a rare day when this blog had more than a dozen visitors. But I would get the occasional odd passerby that would pause before hitting the Next Blog button again. I didn’t get more than a handful of comments on any post, but…