Comments on: are you valuable as a blogger? http://www.grechenblogs.com/2009/08/are-you-valuable-as-a-blogger/ living, blogging, & surviving online Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Danielle http://www.grechenblogs.com/2009/08/are-you-valuable-as-a-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Danielle Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.grechenblogs.com/?p=101#comment-355 Those "top" lists are a traffic grab for the lister in my opinion. Nothing like a popularity contest to draw clicks. Its always best to compare yourself to yourself I think - whenever I am feeling like a blue blogger I try and focus on all the positive comments I am lucky to get, my favourite readers, and how far I have come since I began, or since last year at the same time, and all the ways I have improved at blogging. It reassures me that I am on the right track - for me. Those "top" lists are a traffic grab for the lister in my opinion. Nothing like a popularity contest to draw clicks.

Its always best to compare yourself to yourself I think – whenever I am feeling like a blue blogger I try and focus on all the positive comments I am lucky to get, my favourite readers, and how far I have come since I began, or since last year at the same time, and all the ways I have improved at blogging. It reassures me that I am on the right track – for me.

]]> By: Signature9 http://www.grechenblogs.com/2009/08/are-you-valuable-as-a-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Signature9 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:39:06 +0000 http://www.grechenblogs.com/?p=101#comment-98 Hi Grechen, the list of most influential blogs was actually fairly objective. We contributed a small part of the overall score that gave points for things like frequency of updates, quality of content, design, etc. But it's mostly a way of looking at numbers in a way that makes them mean something. Keep in mind, influential isn't the same as favorite or even best. There are a lot of personal favorites - blogs that are a daily must read, further down the list. They may not be as influential as the ones in the top 99, but it definitely doesn't mean they have no influence - or that they aren't good enough (or smart enough, or gosh darnit, liked by a really engaged bunch of people). Hi Grechen, the list of most influential blogs was actually fairly objective. We contributed a small part of the overall score that gave points for things like frequency of updates, quality of content, design, etc. But it's mostly a way of looking at numbers in a way that makes them mean something. Keep in mind, influential isn't the same as favorite or even best.

There are a lot of personal favorites – blogs that are a daily must read, further down the list. They may not be as influential as the ones in the top 99, but it definitely doesn't mean they have no influence – or that they aren't good enough (or smart enough, or gosh darnit, liked by a really engaged bunch of people).

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