Are You Blogging Tonight?

My personal blog, Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, is a subject driven blog.  It’s about flash fiction, reading it and writing it.  My personal blog is now just a marketing tool for my Triond account.  I may check the Gazette once a week; because now Triond is my blogging platform.  I know there are bloggers who have several blogs, all of them dealing with a different subject.  I don’t know how they do it.  My hands are full just blogging for Triond.  Plus, Triond does the work of putting my content on the appropriate associate sites.  I hope this article makes it to Webupon.

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And I do consider myself a Triond blogger.  I’m doing exactly the same thing on Triond that I did on the Gazette.  There’s just less sex.  But adult material was never the reason for publishing my personal blog.  It was just a way to bring in more readers.  And you know what?  I’m getting far more page views blogging for Triond then I ever got on my personal blog.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  I’m a businessman.  Now blogging is my business.  Triond does my online marketing for me.  Triond even collects my money for me.  I’m free to blog.

The only real decision I have to make is, how often should I blog?

Every blogger is faced with this decision.  Readers have certain expectations.  As far as I can tell there are two kinds of readers of blogs: your regulars and your transients.  A blog’s core readers are the regulars who look for a blog to publish at regular intervals.  If a blogger can grow a regular core of readers the transients will follow.

Are you blogging tonight?

62 responses to Are You Blogging Tonight?

  1. Guy Hogan says:

    mystery writter, publishing a blog does take time. And if you blog every day it can take a lot of time.

  2. Guy Hogan says:

    Judy, that’s what I do. The Gazette is just a marketing tool for my Triond content.

  3. Guy Hogan says:

    janet, that’s all I use the Gazette for, to drive traffic to my Triond pieces.

  4. Guy Hogan says:

    WriteEditSeek, it’s much easier to get views on Triond than it is to get views on my personal blog.

  5. Guy Hogan says:

    Borneon, blogging definitely takes a backseat to going to work.

  6. Guy Hogan says:

    Patrick, with a little time and effort a blog can work for you.

  7. Guy Hogan says:

    johnnydod, I’ve decided to concentrate on Triond and just to use my blog to drive traffic to Triond.

  8. Guy Hogan says:

    cutedrishti, I do the same thing. I spend %98 of my time on Triond and only %2 on my blog.

  9. rbs612 says:

    Dear Guy Hogan.
    About this article, my feelings are the same which I’ve already expressed at your another article, Confessions of a Sex Blogger.

  10. Drea says:

    Thought I’d reciprocate and see what your blog is all about and of course, this one caught my eye. I get really angry at myself if I can’t think of anything to blog about and I’m afraid my blogs end up being banal rubbish that could only be of interest to me and perhaps my dog (if she could read).

    I think blogging is wonderful and everyone should try it at least once.

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