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myLot reputation of 85/100. SpikeTheLobster (803)   ranked 53 out of 1,858 in blogging11 months ago

Oh my goodness. As I mentioned a little while back, Orble offered me a domain for my blog (not massively difficult to get, but I'm still pretty proud of that!) and it all went live yesterday. I fiddled around with it and it's running now.

The thing is, I had a look at the stats. Everything has doubled or tripled: hits, visitors, readers and so on. Whereas the old one was just a bit of blogging fun, it suddenly feels like I have to be all clever and funny, profound and wise, since there's such a major change in traffic. OK, so in real terms it's not that big a change, but it's still scary as hell.

I feel like I should be better at this than I am. Any long-term bloggers have any thoughts on a way to avoid the pressure blocking me from writing something interesting, so I don't screw it up before I've even really started?

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 82/100. unusualsuspect (2413)   ranked 77 out of 1,858 in blogging   11 months ago

Can't really offer any advice on the writing. I don't have any problems coming up with blog posts, but it does require writing about a subject you really enjoy and know something about. Sometimes reading other blogs can be an inspiration.

Good luck with Orble. I started a blog there, and got up to about seven or eight posts before I asked them for a domain. I knew they had an abandoned one that would fit my topic perfectly. I also knew that they like you to use one of those if you can. I never heard anything from them, so I finally deleted my posts. Months later, they're still sending me daily stats for a blog with no content, so I wonder if anybody's home or the site is just running on automatic.


myLot reputation of 85/100. SpikeTheLobster (803)   ranked 53 out of 1,858 in blogging  11 months ago

They've been really communicative with me: had two or three emails each day while the transfer to the domain went on. Maybe it's different when they're offering instead of being asked, or maybe I'm just lucky.

As for content, I'll manage. It's just scary and difficult to produce something interesting when I can almost guarantee someone else has already written something similar - that's the downside of visiting other blogs. So much has already been covered. Ho hum.

For the moment, I'm going to concentrate on my other one which, since it's more personal, is easier. Something'll pop into my head before too long.

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