Comments on: Who Do You Serve?

By: Blogging for Money - Stockholders and Customers » Reader Appreciation Project

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:22:16 +0000

[...] So if the blogger wants to keep the advertisers, he needs to make them happy. And by making the advertisers happy, he needs to generate more “sales” from his readers. Now one question one must ask yourself is, in this situation, are you serving the readers or the advertisers? [...]

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:15:09 +0000

@Ronin – It certainly is nice :)

@Alexander – Quick fixes are rarely the answer ;)

By: Reader Appreciation Initiatives 10-11-2007 » Reader Appreciation Project

Reader Appreciation Initiatives 10-11-2007 » Reader Appreciation Project — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:45:26 +0000

[...] Who Do You Serve? [...]

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:21:42 +0000

Thanks for the important reminder. This morning I was thinking about how I can serve God better…it’s certainly not by doing my will. So, although I don’t know always the specifics of what He would have me do…I know chasing after “quick fixes” and “easy money” is not the answer either!

By: Ronin

Ronin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:09:12 +0000

Audience does matter, and can make a difference. Still it’s nice to know people from the corporate world and the common people world can look up, see your name, and pay attention to your every word. :P

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:31:37 +0000

Heh, Digg do know who I am but don’t like me very much – one out of five diggs get through without being buried immediately ;) I would much rather focus on the people who DO like me :)

By: pelf

pelf — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:54:08 +0000

Google and Digg don’t know who I am, so I might as well concentrate on my audience. At least they leave me comments. And comments make me a happy girl! :)

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:12:23 +0000

What a relief to read this! You know, I’ve discovered it is MUCH less taxing mentally, too, to just be myself when I blog.

Those that have the same interests will somehow, someway come upon or stumble upon my blog and/or I theirs sooner or later.

Yes, it does take visiting others and getting at least the basics of SEO in place, but I no longer sweat it over just HOW much time I spend on those things.

Blogging for the sake of blogging is much more gratifying to me now.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:08:17 +0000

Yeah, I jumped on the AdSense and SEO bandwagons before too. I never got very far into it though. I just figured out that that’s not the way to go (although you need to know about these things and how they can help you). If you want to know how to generate users and revenue for you blog, just see what the best are doing. They are creating quality content.

I’ve watched a few of these site grow into what they are now (I’m particularly impressed with WPDesigner.com because I’ve seen it from the beginning).

So go, create quality content. Blog about something you enjoy.