Comments on: Blog Readers are Selfish

By: ADR Marketing: Your Visitors Want to Know What’s In It for Them « Mediation Marketing from Mediator Tech

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:43:44 +0000

[...] In Blog Readers Are Selfish, Darren Rowse says, So knowing this information, and knowing that people make up their minds very quickly whether to stay on a website or not (most seem to stay on blogs for just seconds), it’s important to give your potential reader a reason to stay and explore your blog. [...]

By: http://crabapple.cc

http://crabapple.cc — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:18:27 +0000

Blog Readers are Selfish…

You heard it here, first, people! Well, second, anyways….

By: What’s in it for me? - pimpmypagerank.com

What’s in it for me? - pimpmypagerank.com — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:18:05 +0000

[...] Darren has an excellent post on his blog at the moment about the fact that blog readers are selfish. [...]

By: Ming 2.0

Ming 2.0 — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:46:33 +0000

it’s great that you’re back, we miss you, but now we’ll miss you being away too.

I seem to have lost the plot at my blog, bost like this will help me to find my way again

By: How Long Do You Take To Write One Post? | blogHelper

How Long Do You Take To Write One Post? | blogHelper — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:03:57 +0000

[...] I’m talking about the subjective, experience-type posts (like two of Darren Rowse’s recent posts). Here, I’ll stick my neck out and give the obvious explanation: There’s really no textbook content for much of the stuff on blogging, and the like. You could probably flesh out your article indefinitely if you wished to and (try to) take into account the various perspectives your readers may have, or cut it into an easily digestible mini-piece. [...]

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:11:21 +0000

Haha, great comeback to the last article.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:46:46 +0000

let’s see…if I remember my Plato correctly

if Readers are people
&
if Readers are selfish
therefore
People are selfish

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:53:40 +0000

Darren, I have to agree with you here. I think humans, by nature’s design, are instilled with a degree of selfishness. It is a feature, when used sparingly, that is designed to better one’s self. Regarding today’s society, this is evermore evident. You hit the nail on the head when you said “…as we decide what to invest time into” because in today’s busy reailty we have to pick and choose carefully where we spend our time. It is the only way to stay efficient and productive.

Applying (or better yet capitalizing on) our selfish nature to blogging is key. Focus your title and you will have a captive audience that will be coming back for more!

Great post.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:40:03 +0000

People are selfish! That’s why I blog on selfish giving at http://www.selfishgiving.com!

By: jay

jay — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:35:49 +0000

Darren, awesome post. I’m reading problogger since some month but even though your advice in this article seems to be quiete obvious it is great how you make your point.

I thought first you would write an article about the nature of a blogger. Maybe you want to kick off a series like that. In my opinion blogging changes you after some time. Whatever I do and whatever I want to learn, I will write about it to share it with friends and relatives and while I do this I make some money with it.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:52:52 +0000

I wonder if that’s why my site only has a handful of regular readers. Maybe my blog posts are too personal and don’t have enough to offer to readers.

Mine is a personal blog. It’s not ad supported, but I love it when people comment or leave feedback and stuff. It’s really encouraging, and I always post more when I write in response to something someone else has said.

You guys know any ways to make posts more other-centric?

By: Bill McRea

Bill McRea — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:25:13 +0000

So you have about 30 seconds maybe less to capture the readers attention. I totally agree with you. I read this blog daily because I know I will learn something that will help my own goals. I must have read 500 blogs about blogging before I settled on Problogger.

A lot of the materials on blogs is moronic, smarmy or too technical. I read Problogger because it provides the information I crave while it talks to me at the same level I am at. Not a moron and not a technowizard.

So I guess I’m selfish too :D

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:59:10 +0000

So, you’re saying blog readers are people? :)

By: jhay

jhay — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:56:04 +0000

Another great post, trouble is, I always find it difficult to come up with short yet concise titles that would at least contain a keyword related to my post. Some bloggers are just so good at it, it pushes me to do improve my next post.