This was a very interesting analysis that I’ve always been fascinated with. Becuase of your post, I am a little more conscious about why I am subscribing ot someone’s site. You have an interesting perspective – the dark and the light.

There’s always to sides of the coin.

Thanks.

Certainly made me chuckle.

I also find I have many (self-described) boring people reading my blog because they find me funny. I often hear things like, “I wish my writing was funny like yours, mine is so mundane.”

Thanks a lot for enlightening all of us bloggers who spend lots of time wondering the how’s and why’s of subscriber behavior. You really pointed out some interesting stuff.

For instance, I know some of my subscribers want to be me. I know others who find me humorous while others have their heartstrings pulled. It’s very interesting how you defined the reasons why people want to subscribe.

Excellent. Excellent. Good job!

Great article! :)

Ultimately, if they like what you have to say, they will be back. I hope!

Cheers,
Justin
Cruise To Cash

Besides, sheep look ridiculous wearing glasses

Ah, so that’s why they all wear contact lens.

Wonderful post Nick! Very helpful as well as entertaining. I better call Mom this weekend and enlist her aid.

Thanks for the great read.

I see that you’ve stressed the humor-effect. Well, it really works.

“Competitors equal subscribers. Having lots of both never sounded so good!” – this is a really good point.

One – because it helps you find competition. And that competition will create the drive a blogger needs to take his/her blog up to the next level. And staying ahead the rest, the edge might as well be having a perfect estimation about your blog niche.

Two – it creates quality traffic. It makes you drive traffic to anf from your blog and entangles your blog in the hungry tentacles of the squids, i mean – readers, following your particular niche.

Also, about the whole “They want to be you thing”. This is particularly true and is the biggest reason why people subscribe to problogger:) Then again, any prominent blogger, I believe, can make use of this, as long as they know to do the right thing at the right time.

Coming out with fireworks about who you are, embedding how professional you are in your blog posts, will ultimately make people believe in you and wanting to be you. Just my opinion!

All these points are great, but sometimes you just gotta change the channel.

This gave me another idea for a blog…more work to do now…I should really focus on one site, but if you look at what I have now, there are so many things I did wrong (at least, there is plenty more improvement to do). ProBlogger is really making more work for me in that sense, but these are still golden posts in my opinion. :)

I do have one question though…of all the items above, which seems to be more lucrative or stand out among the rest? They couldn’t be all equal, and I would think the ‘titillating’ blog would garner more non-bloggers, thus providing it more traffic. Thoughts? Perhaps this is a secondary post on this topic…

Cheers!