Is Your Blog Stressing You out? Spot the Culprit – The Wannabe Blogs

Oh yes, they are blogs that make me depressed and I second guess myself which leads to a lot of discouragement, I am truly going to tighten my list now; I love connecting with new bloggers and learning from the A list ones who tell the hard truth,though it's hard to miss the 8 month wonders!

Oh my gawd, this is exactly how I feel right now. I'm a fairly new blogger, but I have yet to get any significant growth on my blog when it comes to subscribers. I'm taking some of your tips and applying them.

Thanks for the good read Marya.

Were you in my brain when you wrote this? Such a timely, excellent post. Thanks for your honesty and openness: culling and cutting and dating are what I'm up to at this very moment. Feels good to be in good company:) Cheers! Kaarina

Thank you so, so much for writing this. This has been plaguing me for about a year now, and it's refreshing to see that the steps I'm taking (like deleting almost everything from Google Reader) will lead me on the right path.

G'Day Marya,

You've written the "ideal"post: informative, useful and entertaining. Well done. Loved the bits about "sacking" posts. Now; if you could teach that serious Celt, Danny Brown to entertain there'd be no limit to the romance!

thanks again.

Make sure yiu have fun

Regards

Leon

Great post...falling in love can be easy, keeping the romance alive can be trying at times. The relationship between a blogger and his or her blog is unique. Sometimes we have to cut ties with things that can hinder the love of our blog as you noted. Good tips :-)

Love this post. I was in love with my blog at the beginning (www.ilovenewmexicoblog.com) simply because it made me happy to write about my great love, my home state. But I frequently become intimidated by the big dawgs - thanks for bringing me back to reality. I have a date with my blog tonight!

I weed my blog list constantly. When I find I am skimming posts, rather than reading them. OUT they go! Change is good too, a fresh look, when you have grown tired of one point of view. Rather a few genuine readers, than a long list who don't actually read what you write.

Marya, It's hard to leave a cogent comment when every word your write is right on target. Fortunately, that doesn't stop me. I too feel your pain about numbers. I look at my stuff and cry a bit inside when almost no one has seen something I really thought would connect. I don't worry about who got where how quickly, that's all mktg. noise. I know that my readership will grow as I grow. Lack of readership indicates I'm not good enough, yet.

May I suggest that when one is pruning their read list, give tremendous weight to blogs that have consistently led you to other quality blogs. There is so much out there that. A blogger that leads you to other blogs that you learn from is extreme;y valuable.

It all seems to originate from the (false) belief that you need to read as much as you can and you need to write as much as you can. In my opinion, you really don't, I do it just when I feel like to, and if I have long pauses along the way, so be it, it's all part of the game. My game, at least.

I like this post. You're onto something, Marya.

Why is the traditional print media struggling? Audience preferences aside, they built their business models around growing a large audience, then serving up ads. This is proving less sustainable by the day. I take any rapid subscriber growth tactics with a grain of salt.

What you do with your blog is never as important as why you do it. Press on regardless.

"How many personal development blogs?

Not many either. If you are following 39, you need help. Go see a shrink instead."

Ha! SO true!

Great stuff here Marya. I recently started culling the blogs I follow and thinking about them in terms of how they help me and how much I enjoy their voice.

Blogs like The Sales Lion of thesaleslion and Dave Ursillo dot com from daveursillo

When a blog makes you feel less as a blogger/writer/person - whack that sucker off at the knees and focus your attention on those that make you happy!