Comments on: Who Does Your Blog Serve? The Secret to Sustainable Blogging

By: Tracey

Tracey — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:30:13 +0000

I agree with the video,keeping balances is important.I have alot of fun with mines:)

By: Jason Pegler

Jason Pegler — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:10:30 +0000

Thans so much for this video. I can see you really care about people doing their own blogs. i would be interested in publsihing your story. Please do get in touch with me. Good blogging can help the world’s mental health.

By: drfrank

drfrank — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:29:35 +0000

Hi Darren, It’s a good point about balancing the readers’ needs and the blogger’s, and was interested to come across the idea of ’sustainable blogging’. Liked the diagrams in the vid. Am curious to know, though, how you were able to discern that some blogs weren’t serving the needs of their bloggers (when they appeared to concentrate on their readership more)? It’s not something I would have such a good handle on when just reading web page content; I’m curious as to whether there might be indicators though! Thanks.

By: DrProactive Randy Gilbert

DrProactive Randy Gilbert — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:08:26 +0000

Darren, you have such a complete grasp of blogging, especially for reaching out and touching people right where they’re at. I hope you continue with your blog forever.

By: lomig

lomig — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:24:19 +0000

thanks for this great video. The key point is to keep oneself asking this question…the balance has to be kept…
and every blogger has to ask himself what is he (she) waiting to receive…great question !

By: Gregg

Gregg — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:52:10 +0000

Interesting article, as most of yours are. I used your site when I started back in May, and I believe I’m on the right track. I am challenged with gaining readers, and will keep researching your posts. Keep them coming, and thanks for all the great tips!

By: Diego Scataglini

Diego Scataglini — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:45:39 +0000

awesome as usual

By: Skiing at Home

Skiing at Home — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:25:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing this video! My blog is such a niche market and not following the MAKE MONEY ONLINE popular theme that I am unsure how to gain readers. However, I am excited that i am the only BACKYARD SKI BLOGGER! HEHE!

By: Blogs for Money

Blogs for Money — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:15:06 +0000

“A blog that just provides for readers will burn out the blogger and a blog that provides only for the blogger will burn out it’s readership.”

Well said :-)

By: SpicePuppy

SpicePuppy — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:42:12 +0000

I thought Darren’s shoulder movement wasn’t because he naturally talks with his hands a lot, but because he’s deliberately using motion to keep things interesting. News anchors do this–they don’t want to be a “talking head.”

As for “who” vs. “whom,” just today I was looking through my alma mater’s alumni magazine and a reader had made a similar comment. The response was that it’s become acceptable to write colloquially in that way. I guess there would be people with strong feelings on both sides. How about this for something less controversial: I think “it’s me” is perfectly fine, but the grammatically correct “it’s I” just sounds pretentious.

By: OOM

OOM — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:44:41 +0000

Very good put down, err.. said. Obvious things but needed to be said. Thumbs up!

By: Velian (velqn) Staykov

Velian (velqn) Staykov — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:18:00 +0000

Darren, nice video post. I am also thinking of launching a video post… i think it makes sense, the communication is just getting better and maybe this is helping for achieving the right balance…

By: The Adsense Consultant

The Adsense Consultant — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:22:30 +0000

Actually I started out my blog because while I was having so much fun (and getting frustrated) learning about and how to add adsense to it I found that people were asking so many questions about adsense. Simple things that I took for granted like being able to join adsense with relative ease – others seemed to have a lot of problems with joining adsense and/or they wanted to know more about adsense.

While there is a business side to having adsense on one’s site there is also a human side as well. Subjects that come up like the monthly “waiting for the adsense payment” thing are always being discussed and while having adsense ads on my site is the business side having a blog – period – involves having a human side too. So my blog readership is aimed more towards those that are looking for the more human side of having adsense ads on one’s site – the ups and downs and the confusion et. al.

By: prasanga

prasanga — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:44:54 +0000

hi D, Great post. I think the balance is very important. I agree

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:58:54 +0000

I just try to keep my blog on topic, and that strategy seems to work: I’m still getting signups to my feedblitz-powered rss newsletter.

The amount of advertising on my site varies over time, and I do not worry about it much, because if an advertising network does not prove to be worth my time, it is removed from my blog — and my readers know that.

By: Karen (Miscellaneous Mum)

Karen (Miscellaneous Mum) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:11:45 +0000

I’d never much thought about the cyclic nature of it, but yes I see now.
Timely post, for me!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:02:31 +0000

Fantastic video. You know while you were talking about blogs that are dominated by the blogger and out of balance in that way I immediately thought of John Chow's blog. I got reader burnout over there a few weeks back after seeing so many self congratulatory posts, seeing every second post was just a money grab (paid review, announcement of another ad on his blog or affiliate program). Did you have him in mind too Darren?

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:26:48 +0000

My blog benefits the literary community (I hope). But it also benefits me because it gives me an outlet to write about something I’m passionate about, and it also gives me an excuse to keep up with all the news in the literary world.

What also keeps me going is when I hear positive feedback. People will write a comment or email me that they really enjoy reading my blog and it helps them in such-and-such way. Stuff like that really makes my day!

Thanks for the great post!

By: V

***V*** — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:26:27 +0000

I would have to say that you should serve YOURSELF. If YOU want your viewers to give you credit for your work then it’s serving what YOU want. If you want them to learn something from your vast knowledge, then it’s serving YOU. If you want them to make you money through clicking ads then it’s serving YOU.

Serve yourself and you’ll be a winner in the end.

By: silvino

silvino — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:02:28 +0000

darren, can you increase the font-size and pictures-size on your next video, please?

thank you (: