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Blogging About Blogging

I don’t have a lot of knowl­edge about blog­ging.  I can’t tell you the HTML code for wid­gets that will raise your SEO’s or what tricks you can find on the inter­net real­ly work for get­ting more hits.  I am not up on how to trick Google’s lat­est search algo­rithms or the lat­est psy­cho­log­i­cal the­o­ries on exact­ly how long a blog post should be in today’s short-atten­tion-span world.  So I’m not going to give you that “How To” crap.  This is more of a col­lec­tion insights of  I’m pick­ing up along the way that I’m will­ing to share.

What I can say is that I write this blog for all the same rea­sons that I write most any­thing, and I reject many of the same “cheap tricks” of the busi­ness of writ­ing when they are trans­lat­ed into the busi­ness of blog­ging.  So while I’ve read more than a hand­ful of “How to get more traf­fic on your blog” pages, and I prob­a­bly don’t have any­thing to add to what’s out there, what I might be able to do is help you con­sid­er “… but do I real­ly want to DO that stuff?”

Writ­ing is hard enough with­out get­ting sucked into the bull­shit that sur­rounds the craft that ISN’T writ­ing, so find­ing the way to strike that bal­ance, do it well, and not lose your­self along the way can be tricky on the best of days.  Blog­ging will not free you from that bull­shit.

Let the Frac­tions of Pen­nies Flow!
6 Easy Ways to Nin­ja More Pageviews
Increas­ing Blog Traf­fic-Accu­mu­late Trib­u­taries
Sev­en Ways You Can REALLY Help A Blog Suc­ceed With­out Spend­ing A Dime
So You Want to Start Your Own BlogPart 2
Atop Death Hill

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