Why People Don’t Read Your Blog

Why People Don’t Read Your Blog

It’s not good enough any more if you simply love to write. Like everything in life, “just” writing, or doing “just” about anything, is never good enough.

You need to do more… and more.

Your words are only 25% of the equation. Now, to make it in the writing business on-line, you “have to” include images, and of course, you cannot forget about publicizing to all of your social media outlets, and then there is this whole concept of using the perfect keywords and hashtags to get remotely noticed… and the list goes on…

There are days I love it, and days I am sick of it. There are more websites telling you what you should and shouldn’t do, and there are more tools out there, to help you navigate the social media labyrinth we live in, yet, none actually make it easy for you. In fact, they not only complicate matters, but in order for you to be able to use these tools to their fullest potential, you have to pay… and it’s not always cheap.

So here are my thoughts… WRITE. JUST WRITE because you love it. Don’t feel like you always need to comply with the “What You Need To Do To Be Successful” rules the cyber-world tells you about.

Just write because it feels right. Write because you love it. Write without avail.

… And if, today, you decide not to include an image, or hashtags, or submitting your work to all of your social media outlets, don’t feel bad about it. Don’t give it a second thought. You wrote! That’s what you need to do!

In the past, there were many nights that I didn’t blog because I didn’t feel like putting an image together, or didn’t feel like adding more than what I really wanted to write. I was an idiot. I love my readers, but you are not the only ones I write for. I write for myself too. So, as much as I love to give my readers what makes you happy, I need to give myself a little something that makes me happy too… and sometimes, it’s simply in black and white.

Shivani Cotter