Go Flyakite

After a recent comment to this post, I noticed I am no longer #2 on google for this search term.

Something that I have been thinking about the last few days is the fact my blog does not have a structure to it. It’s either tech, weblinks (which I hate), or personal stuff. And with it being so much it is only hurting subscribers or viewers. For example, a lot of friends don’t like my blog because I always talk about tech stuff, and the people googling and find such things like the example above would never become a regular reader because I don’t do reviews all that often or talk solely tech. Nor do I have something here that people would like to be updated on, the theme and the tutorials bring a lot of traffic but I am talking about original plugins, reviews, tutorials and other things that make a blog popular.

So the question is, do I want to be popular with my friends or be popular to the web? I guess that is why I love the word scattered so much.

About the Author, Dan Cameron:

I'm the owner and solution engineer at Sprout Venture, a web solutions company that specializes in web development including WordPress.

I started my first blog in 2003 and transitioned to WordPress in 2004. Since moving to WordPress I've written a few plugins and themes for public consumption. Lately I'm busy engineering/building/coding and have only been able to share a few code snippets.

If you're in need of some web development, web design or custom WordPress plugins and/or themes contact me, I'll be happy to discuss it with you.

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  • Dan
    Thanks guys. I think I will just stick to what I am doing now, but go extreme. Maybe not but instead of holding back on the tech stuff I think I am going to go deeper. Like the whole FlyaKiteOSX, I should have done a full review and I never did, now I regret it. Not because I would have had the traffic but I just wish I had went that direction. No big deal.
    I will just keep the name Scattered and talk about everything "I want" like I originally set out to do a long time ago.
    So if you guys see me post on Golf and don't like it, F' you, I don't care not one golfer reads this blog; not that I know of anyways.

    I will also try to comment more on my own blog something I don't know why I never do. Normally I would have just this post slide by without a comment.
  • nstryker
    i disagree, conform! write what makes you popular, and reject all else.
  • Crazysox
    I agree with Jared, just write whatever you want- no matter what the topic is (within reason). No need to change anything.
  • I think you should just blog on whatever you feel like blogging about. It doesn't have to necessarily please anyone (unless that's your goal). Your blog should just be what you make it.

    Also, (a pet peeve of mine) it doesn't have to be a complete picture or representation of who you are, either. Mine for example is probably a little unbalanced in that I also mostly talk about tech stuff and political issues, which isn't necessarily consistent with the rest of my life. The fact is there is tons of stuff in my life that I don't blog about; granted some is because I can't (unless I want to find out what happens to people that divulge classified military information), but some of it I just don't feel like talking about on a blog, for any number of reasons.

    The bottom line is that you know you will always have some of us as readers. If you want to cater to more specific audiences, I would recommend (because I've thought about doing this too) just categorizing your posts better, maybe even using categories like "tags" (from Flickr) and then making the category links more prominent (at the top of the page, etc). That way people could look at just your "tech"entries or just your personal stuff, they wouldn't have to see them both if they didn't want too.
  • Many cell phone blogs have a more tech news format for their particular interest
    and blackberries sites too. Most have somewhere you can comment on different things.
    That isnt what you want to do?
  • Dan
    Maybe I will delete that last comment.

    1. I don't like blackberrys or Blackberries
    2. Blackberry aside it's limited to only one topic. I could do that on another blog if I had to.
    3. I can't think of an example right now.
  • are you looking to do something like this with a broader view?
    You have had over 25000 visitors.

    http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/05/24/00471/
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