blogging 102 | Comments Will Come… Eventually

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Don’t get stressed about not getting comments. Like many other bloggers I too was wondering if this was worth doing several times this week. I am putting money, time, and effort into maintain a blog that doesn’t get very many comments. I am sure some of you have felt that way too. Well I gave myself a year for each blog to start turning a profit and I am actually ahead for the gross on all four of them so I am not fretting.

I still am left with the time and effort questions. There are plenty of other blogs out there talking about blogging, but frankly I might be the only one who dares to say “fuck” in their blog. I thought about changing that strategy and decided against it, because blogging is frustrating and sometimes saying “fuck” in a post takes some of that away, and frankly if you want to read “fuck” free posts there are other blogs out there who cater to every corner of politically correct behavior.

There we have it. I know I have a fucking niche among bloggers blogging about blogging. Alright niche defined, what next in the “is this worth doing” Q&A. How many people read this blog? Right now 50 new visits a day with an average of 2.5 page views according to analytics, with another 20 return visitors, that doesn’t account for the 25 now getting the feed which increases by 3 or 4 a week. Okay not a lot of people are coming here yet, but it does grow every week so I am okay with that.

This still leaves me with the damned lack of comments. It is frustrating not knowing if anything you say is getting through or making any difference to people. Then I had to take a step back and evaluate my situation. As any good blogger with a problem I went to the people who know a lot more than me. I started looking around at some of big name blogs and realized they have great content every day with huge numbers in their Feedburner stats, but they don’t have a lot of comments either most days by comparison. Several sites I looked at have 20k or more Feedburner readers and only get on average a dozen comments per post.

After doing the math, I didn’t feel too bad. With a Minimum 20k people getting the feed you can figure only half of them read the post every day, with that many visiting the site in total. Call it a 12 comments divided by 20k and you get an average of .06% post to comment ratio. When I divide up my stats I have over a 5% post to comment ration. I quit feeling bad and decided to go back to content writing.

Enjoy and please feed my ego if this was in the least bit helpful!