I have a question for you today. If your blog were not in part focused on getting readers, traffic and money making… what would you do differently? If you really took back ownership of your blog, made it a project of love again, just for you; how would you change it?
I would add colour. Not just any colour or just a little bit to highlight and be pretty. Oh no! My very first true personal blog was red on red. Really, deep, dark, vibrant red background with a white font so it could still be read. It wasn’t easy to read. All that red was hard on the eyes, even for me and I loved it.
I feel the new round of blogs are missing that personal flavour. When you blog just for yourself you are free to be as creative or tasteless as you like. Now, with the focus on making your blog for the hypothetical reader a lot of that has been shafted.
I’m working on adding that red back to this blog. It’s coming, but in a more tasteful way than my old blog. Compromise maybe but I won’t be sucked under pandering to what people want.
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Get out of my head! So strange — I was just thinking that exact same thing this past weekend. So, I’ve decided that’s exactly what I’m going to do! As much as I could not admit it — I was thinking about how others saw my blog. Well, no more! FOr the next little while (hopefully forever) I’m going to write what I want, when I want and how I want. I have no idea what is going to happen so wish me luck! All the best. CHEERS!
I never thought of that before as I always focusing on readers. Anyway, your blog is nice, no need to decorate it anymore. =)
My blog has always been for my personal well being. I never had many readers, now I have a few, which is nice but I write for me. I realize there are folks who earn an income from blogging, I understand that but I avoid those blogs, they are never really interesting. For a while everyone was touting some on-line eyeglass place — really annoying to read about it blog after blog after blog. My blog used to be far more fussy with all kinds of doodads and gimcracks — took them all off. I’ve clicked on blogs that had so much going on that I felt assaulted and quickly closed it. Some have so much stuff that they never load — so yeah, if it’s just for you, play all you like.