Ha.
Made you look.
This entry has nothing to do with butterflies but I'm interested in how many Google hits I'll get just having the word butterflies in the title. Call it an experiment.
What I'm really pondering right now is all the stuff I've been reading on ProBlogger http://www.problogger.net/ . Because I want to make a million dollars off of this little blog, as you can see from all the advertising I do.
Ok, that's totally not why I blog, but I'm interested in the vastness of the blogging world. My sister's blog http://tentativeequinox.wordpress.com/ has gotten tons (or hundreds of kilos for you metric people) of Google hits to her blog all because of a little picture she posted of a cute Muppet. Who new.
While I try to make sense of all that's written about making my blog the best, my stomach starts flipping around because I feel like I'm in high school again. All the cool people from high school have morphed into the cool people with awesome blogs that get gobs of comments, and I'm the blog that's standing over in the corner at the party knowing no one will ask me to dance and even if they did it would be because their buddies had a bet on who could dance with the shortest girl there and let me tell you, no one wants a pity dance. Not even me.
So I start to think about all the 'things' I'm suppose to do, like link to other people's blogs and tell them I've put up a link, and then they'll check out my blog and then they'll tell two people, and then THEY'LL tell two people, and so on, and so on and so on.
But then they might read my blog.
So basically I'm a small statured walking oxymoron.
I want people to read my blog. But I don't want people to read my blog. I've never preached that I make much sense. Ask my children. Or my husband. He'll give you a word or two on that subject.
That little ProBlogger site also yells about the need to be a prolific blogger. I can do that. I haven't done that. I will do that.
I am challenging myself this week. This week, I will blog every day. *crickets chirping*
O...k....how about this? This week, I will not only blog every day, but I will award a PRIZE to the person who leaves the bestest, most insightful comment on one of my posts. Yes....another ProBlogger tip. Everyone likes getting something for nothing. That's not the tip. The tip is something about generating 'buzz' or something like that. I just know everyone likes getting something for nothing, or at the very least, very little effort. I'll let you know what the prize is once I know what it is. It will totally be worth playing for. Honest.
Rules:
1. Said contest ends Sunday night, 11pm, Pacific Standard Time.
2. No swears.
3. No short stature comments. These will be deleted.
4. You must write your comments and POST them in the comments section. "But I talked to you on the phone this week" doesn't count.
5. Post no bills.
So, tune in tomorrow, when I will be discussing the finer points of needing to clean under one's living room couches more than once a year.
There will be pictures.
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1 comment:
LOVE the dance metaphor!
You are not alone with that feeling of wanting people to read and not wanting people to read. Artists the world over in all kinds of disciplines struggle with that.
But, for what it's worth, I think you do a lovely job on your blog. You deserve to have an audience.
Failing that, you can always post a picture of Beaker and hope THE ALMIGHTY GOOGLE will set up the traffic cones and place all the old ladies with their reflective vests, their STOP/SLOW signs and the cigarettes hanging out of their mouths to send all traffic through your particular roundabout. Then block all the exits so they have to keep circling.
There's a good name for a blog "The Evil Roundabout."
Okay, it's late, the bad ideas are escaping from their cages.
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