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Re-blog: Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?

ANDY HAWTHORNE: Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?1

Let’s tell the truth, then: Nobody reads your blog.

At least, not as many as you’d like. Maybe a handful, maybe none. You pour your thoughts into it, craft each sentence, pick the right image — then silence. No likes, no shares, no engagement.

So what’s the point?

There’s two lies we tell ourselves:

  1. If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurricane.
  2. If nobody reads it, it’s a waste of time.

Is it, though?

As Glenn so often says (and I will, from here onward, blatantly steal), read the whole thing.

  1. Andy has redone his web site and this post is no longer on it. As my post here occasionally still gets some traffic, I've adjusted the link to point to the original text, now on the Internet Archive.↩

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