Comments on: Blogging is Not a Numbers Game- Or Is It

By: Digi Gems 1.4.7 | DANOMI

Digi Gems 1.4.7 | DANOMI — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:26:21 +0000

[...] to share, to get you involved, and to try and inform on what I learn as I learn it. Upon reaching some recent milestones, I thought it might be really interesting to share some thoughts with you on how I think this is [...]

By: It’s All About The Numbers | BloggerNewbie

It’s All About The Numbers | BloggerNewbie — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:28:27 +0000

[...] may be is a result of significant effort. But what do these numbers mean? Chris Brogan writes – Blogging is not a numbers game or is it? Chris just hit a huge milestone! His RSS number hit 10,000 subscribers. An inspiring blogger such [...]

By: José

José — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:21:18 +0000

Hi,

Your post focus a true social meaning and not social as getting a big number of visitors; of course that getting lots of visitors is also good.
I guess that blogs may reflect somewhat how people are relating nowadays and lets hope that bloggers may have some power to influence things in this world to make it a better place.

Take care,

José

By: José

José — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:21:00 +0000

Hi,

Take care,

José

By: Young Che

Young Che — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:10:20 +0000

Congratz Chris. Keep putting out relevant content. You are a great resource for all of us who participate in this ongoing conversation through social media. Thanks

By: Young Che

Young Che — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:10:00 +0000

Congratz Chris. Keep putting out relevant content. You are a great resource for all of us who participate in this ongoing conversation through social media. Thanks

By: Social Media Best Practices | Engage in PR

Social Media Best Practices | Engage in PR — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:40:50 +0000

[...] social media or what it means for them in communications. Shocking really when you see the amount of readers someone like Chris Brogan has or the great stuff so many others are doing for this industry. Instead of just rehashing posts I [...]

By: Feed the conversation, fuel your community | Fuelmyblog - The blog for the exclusive blog community.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:56:59 +0000

[...] was recently reading a post by social media expert Chris Brogan [www.chrisbrogan.com]. He was happy to have reached his [...]

By: Technorati 1,000,000 - Help me Break Into It!

Technorati 1,000,000 - Help me Break Into It! — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:25:45 +0000

[...] Chris Brogan can get into the Technorati 100, I know I can do [...]

By: Nicky

Nicky — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:21:04 +0000

Congrats on your achievements. “Numbers” matter but it is important to keep in context and not focus on them (or lack thereof). They also take time to acquire, so I’m glad you mentioned how long it took you to reach your milestones.

For example, my newest blog, nickyjameson.com started last month doesn’t have many comments yet though vists are climbing – slowly. But i don’t expect it to at this point.

The reason I am not bothered is because I’ve been here before. It’s my second blog so I know what to expect. My first blog, where I blog on a niche area gets approx 11,000 hits/month, gets on average of 24 comments per post and, more importantly has a very strong community that, even though I blog once a week (down from 3 times a week) keeps growing. My biggest concern is that I’m so busy I’m not able to get over to my readers blogs as much and comment more there.

It’s got to a stage where I can’t answer every single comment now and yet I keep getting new readers. I have no advertising on, nor do I want it. I don’t even have pictures ;)

Considering I started blogging by accident I am happy with my results. But my point is this… it has taken hours of consistent blogging for over four years to build what I have now on my personal blog. I cared about comments yes.. but I care more about my subject matter and my readers who shared with me. My topic is also rather controversial which doesn’t hurt.

It takes time, it takes great content, patience and persistence, and incoming links from others linking to you. Reciprocity. And it also takes commenting on others blogs.

I know what it feels like to blog on and get little reaction but I tried to show some comment love on interesting posts on others’ blogs, especially if they commented on mine (I’d always follow the link). Again, reciprocity. So, though my comment count may be low, on nickyjameson.com my focus is really on providing stuff that my audience will enjoy reading, but saying what I want to say.
Hope that’s some encouragement to those who’d like more numbers. Don’t give up.