Comments on: Who Is Your Blog For?

By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:07:02 +0000

ha they are far better than I. I also use my blog to promote blogengage a lot! it’s working great!

I sent this article back to the front of blogengage! We’ll see if we can get a few more commentators here!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:01:40 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Brian. Blogging for bloggers is actually kind of a unique concept; the only other folks I know doing that are Yan at Thou Shall Blog and the two ladies at Blogging for Beginners.

By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:13:35 +0000

Hi Mitch thanks again for submitting to blogengage! As always I try to follow all the bloggers that submit and here I am finding myself on your blog. I like your attitude when it comes to blogging and business. I love to learn from other people and like to think I’ve learned a few things since I started following you.

I blog for bloggers and that’s how I would had answered that question. A blog about blogging  I know it’s not unique but I enjoy doing this.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:45:02 +0000

You know I get there, Wil. lol Course, if you’ve been a long time reader here, you also know I hate Blogger!

By: wilhb81

wilhb81 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:43:52 +0000

Well, Mitch. My blog is mainly for those who love to get more information about the ways to create a better and killing online business. However, you’re welcome to hang at my blog, if you’re looking for a laugh!
.-= wilhb81´s last blog ..Your Parents Deserved a Better Living Life! =-.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:28:05 +0000

Hi Harry,

We don’t see that many of those blogs anymore, do we? Those folks will start, but they don’t continue writing after awhile. But I follow lots of blogs, so I see so many different types of things that I’m still satiated. Overall, it’s still about writing, whether it’s geared towards a personal reason or not.

By: Harry@Firany

Harry@Firany — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:47:47 +0000

First blogs were just kinda digital, internet diaries where authors could express their thoughts and share with readers. And that kind of blogging is still close to my heart as I observe more and more (like you called them) money making blogs. I don’t think that making money from a blog is something wrong, on the contrary, I find it great initiative to make economy more elastic to all international break downs. But there is something about blogging that I miss. Sometimes I just think about the times when it was not about money. Well, there is always something in the past that was not about money, but we live in very “monetary” times and everyone must live somehow. So, I think that making money out of blog is nothing wrong, I just miss ordinary blogs which were thoughs and feelings-expressing-diary.

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:23:45 +0000

Good morning, Mitch.

A bit deep, yes. But they are questions well worth considering and answering.

Always be who you are — there’s no other path worth following.

A lesson learned the old-fashioned, hard way over many years.

Act on your dream!

JD
.-= John Dilbeck´s last blog ..Finding the right keywords using an online keyword research tool =-.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:37:12 +0000

Thanks John. I guess my blogs are primarily for me in a way also, since, if I didn’t care, I wouldn’t keep doing them. This one in particular is for me to just talk about whatever, and advertise whenever, and other stuff along the way. If I could have bought the domain name I was hoping for in January, I might have added my fourth blog to the list, and then you’d be seeing something a little different now. Oh well,…

Thanks for participating; these last few might be a bit deep for some folks, but I gotta be who I am, right?

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:57:25 +0000

Good evening, Mitch.

Once again, you are asking probing and deceptively deep questions.

I’ve been asking myself this question for several years.

I have to admit that my initial blogging of a few years ago was entirely for me. I wanted to learn the different blogging platforms and compare results that I obtained from them. That’s why many of my earlier blogs had the same things posted to them. Over time, I could compare stats and search engine rankings to see which blogging platforms worked best, at least for what I was doing.

I spent years studying this and left a pile of abandoned blogs in the dust.

Last year, I realized that I’d learned what I was going to learn and that it was time to decide what I was going to do with blogging.

I narrowed my focus to three things.

A personal blog where I could talk about anything I wanted (after switching it from its Manila platform to a self-hosted WordPress blog). I haven’t posted much to it lately, but I’m thinking that will change over the rest of the year.

Affiliate marketing was the second area I wanted to cover. Unfortunately, affiliate marketing hasn’t been kind to me this year and I’m trying to stop the free-fall and recover. It’s taking a lot of effort, but I’ll continue, because I really like the affiliate marketing model.

The third area on which I’m concentrating is promoting the Murphy, NC area and the local business owners and what they are doing here. Initially, this one looks like it would be the least profitable of all, but that’s been the exact opposite of what I’ve experienced. Plus, I love the area and enjoy helping my friends and neighbors get found on the search engines.

Overall, I still have to say that my blogs are primarily still for me — and people like me. I enjoy them. But, now, I’m doing my best to be more disciplined in what I write and for whom.

As far as my affiliate marketing blog is concerned, my target audience used to be beginning online marketers. Now, I’m making the transition to writing for those who have some experience and who are at least intermediate-level marketers. I’m still working to better define that niche and what I’ll be promoting and writing about.

Man, you’re asking good questions this week!

Act on your dream!

JD
.-= John Dilbeck´s last blog ..Finding the right keywords using an online keyword research tool =-.