Three years ago, I was desperate to get people to discover my still-new blog, so, as an experiment, I used the two top trending topics of the moment–Jimmy Fallon and Ebola Czar–in a single post. And it worked (kind of). Then I pseudo-hypocritically made fun of the whole idea because, in truth, I loathe trend-watching.
Since then, I’ve been blessed with a growing following, despite my stubborn unbuzziness. So I’ll probably continue to blow algorithmic raspberries because, well, it’s more fun than collecting the overripe fruit everyone else is throwing!
Good for you, Mitch. Lesson learned. It’s called integrity. I think of the old “cream rises to the top” concept, but it hasn’t increased my blog or twitter following…yet. 😉 Vern
Thanks, Mitch, I love the reminder that chance encounters might be the best thing that ever happens to us. So true!
Yes, there’s a spiritual implication there that I didn’t go into, but I’m sure you saw it, Donna.
Mitch, despicable, absolutely despicable!!!
Any recommendation to increase my 3 viewer (not an exaggeration) ship blog…any trending topics…any…?
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What I eventually settled into, Caleb, was using tag words (in the Reader) relevant to what I write about in order to find bloggers with similar interests. My liking and commenting on (some of) their posts leads to (some of) them checking me out, and results in a steadily growing following.
Right on!