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gging i also gave up now write with my two most frequent commenters in mind works much better my highest day of stats didn t relate to the time or day of publishing the post rather to the fact that the local rivers were flooding i had posted pictures of them flooding so they came up in google searches i wrote the post http looneyatoms com 2013 01 05 the river thames in flood weybridge walton port hampton in january last year but it s busiest day was december 26th reply barbara says january 5 2014 at 1 01 pm ps how do i follow you on wordpress reply macmaitre says january 6 2014 at 6 30 am just click follow this blog below the blog entry reply barbara says january 6 2014 at 3 27 pm i would have but this does not appear i can share via a number of forums or follow on google but not on wordpress justen perez says january 5 2014 at 1 40 pm that s where i am at this year 2014 i m writing to myself and to my future children that s all that really matters my digital home that i m creating for me and my future family blog views are so great but nothing matters if the posts i m creating don t mean something to me creating value is key for me this year reply kurt says january 6 2014 at 9 06 am this is precisely why i journal sure what i write might be valuable for someone else and it is likely to be valuable for me sometime in the future but it will definitely be valuable to my kids when they eventually care to read it those words of mine will speak for me when i m no longer around to say them and through those words my kids and grandkids will be able to understand why i am who i am avoid making my mistakes and participate in my triumphs and joys reply om malik says january 5 2014 at 2 07 pm matt this is a great post and it essentially sums up what makes blogs work and not work what people forget that blogging is about a connection if you are able make a connection with one person then you have achieved the reason you started the blog to begin with everything else is just gravy reply scott carpenter says january 5 2014 at 2 18 pm i m wanting to start blogging more again and as part of a site refresh the past several months i removed any extra stats analytics stuff from my site the host is still logging stuff and i could look with webalizer etc but i haven t it s a good feeling to let it go although i still tweet and post to fb so i still have that lingering neediness to see if attention has been paid and some information to tell me it has not i ve removed all traces of google from my site i think and it s nice to not feel beholden at all to the search god and have to pay tribute in the form of legal notices about privacy and whatnot if nothing else i love the google but i like not having their paternalistic influence at the moment reply the intrinsic value of blogging blog of leonid mamchenkov says january 5 2014 at 2 38 pm the intrinsic value of blogging reply tim severien says january 5 2014 at 2 53 pm i love this article right now i m struggling generating content often i start writing only to realize many wouldn t care so i spend a lot of time writing for the trash after reading this post i know exactly what person i should write for and i feel i have so much to tell thank you so much reply greg wallace says january 5 2014 at 3 12 pm great post matt no need for a dislike button such good advice for anyone who wants to find their audience reply mariano says january 5 2014 at 4 03 pm matt great post thanks to google seo we discovered a lot of traffic some of us built a business upon it thanks to social media we discovered that people share tweet but barely reads our posts in a weird way i ve stop reading stats and got happier than the last 5 years of blogging i feel i m back on the beggining 2001 my first post when i enjoyed writing reply gail at large says january 5 2014 at 5 28 pm i ve been blogging daily for the past 11 and 1 2 years the first few years were on blogger but i moved it all to wordpress in december 2005 i ve seen a lot of people quit blogging with few people staying the course i write for myself rather than for numbers or notoriety my blog will outlive me no matter when or how i leave this life that s what fuels me along with having an idea of what i will leave behind reply paul jarvis says january 5 2014 at 5 31 pm i have phone calls with my audience sometimes up to 3 dozen in a short period of time to see what they re working on curious about or what fears they re tackling i write for them reply scott berkun says january 5 2014 at 5 37 pm i m glad you wrote this is it better to be popular or good i think about this often we assume what s popular is good but often this isn t true what s popular is the outcome of many variables many of which have little to do with the quality of the work itself we all have different tastes and to presume the most popular video on youtube for planet earth will be the most interesting to you personally is absurd there s plenty of advice on how to earn more traffic but much of demands writing the same cliches and gimmicks that we all hate to find after we click on a link as a blogger i need to be popular enough to make my career work but beyond that i am committed to writing what i think is good in the short term i suspect i m less popular than many of my peers who make different tradeoffs but in the long term i know i m building my credibility with an audience of people who are interested in what i m going to write about next reply kevin o keefe kevinokeefe says january 5 2014 at 6 10 pm good post matt starting my blog out of my garage i remember rebecca blood through her book the weblog handbook to write to an audience of one me then to imagine others listening in i tell lawyers beginning on our network to imagine having a talk radio show that now one has heard of just talk on items you enjoy that ll require your thinking and someone will stumble across you as the scroll across their radio dial as that person is now listening don t let them down reply david g johnson says january 5 2014 at 6 12 pm annnnnnd this is precisely why i cranked out a 3700 word post yesterday about my decision to add an ssd to my aging laptop will anyone ever read the whole thing who knows but i wrote it for me and i enjoyed it maybe my future self will benefit from the documentation if i ever decide to do it again reply matthew guay says january 5 2014 at 9 26 pm somehow my first breakout post ended up being one where i described how to get a specific hp printer to work on windows 7 x64 over a network specific posts can somehow sometimes hit a google nerve and end up being popular and yet i only wrote the post to document the process for myself for when i d inevitably have to redo the setup the posts i write for myself have that odd property of always being the ones that end up being more popular reply david g johnson says january 6 2014 at 2 24 pm i ve had a couple of posts like this in the past i found it was more useful to put them up on my public blog than try to store the documentation somewhere where on my local machine funny how things work no elisha stephanie helloelisha says january 5 2014 at 6 43 pm just wanted to say great post and great insight i couldn t agree more about writing for that specific audience most importantly for yourself reply the intrinsic value of blogging matt mullenweg d arcy norman dot net says january 5 2014 at 7 16 pm matt mullenweg on blogging reply lawyers ought blog for an audience of two says january 5 2014 at 7 57 pm antidote mullenweg suggests is to write for only two reply scientificbuddha says january 5 2014 at 8 23 pm great thoughts matt writing for yourself is a best way to start blogging i guess reply say keng lee says january 5 2014 at 8 24 pm hi matt i share your sentiments and i like your idea of write for only two people even though my own overarching writing experience to date is more towards having a daily deliberate and disciplined intellectual routine reply md1amond says january 5 2014 at 8 29 pm this post gets to the heart of the matter thanks for reminding me to worry less about what google analytics is telling me the 2013 posts on my blog with the higher number of page views were not really even on point with my chosen topic yet some of the material i ve written that i think is far better never came close to driving the same traffic this post helps redefine the why of blogging something i need to re connect with every so often thanks for the insight well done reply blogging still matters in a social media world sam harrelson says january 5 2014 at 8 41 pm via the intrinsic value of blogging matt mullenweg reply stephen shefrin says january 5 2014 at 10 11 pm i really liked your point about writing to a single person reply tiffany says january 5 2014 at 10 57 pm interesting thought i started out blogging for myself and got a bit flustered when people started following along this piece reminds me of why i wrote and should still keep writing in the first place i ve started working in marketing though and blogging is seen as a tool to connect with our market base i m curious about your thoughts on blogging as marketing does the idea exist if so would we be writing with just one person in mind the 1 reader because the other person the writer writing for self technically doesn t exist reply the intrinsic value of blogging jane jacquelie vestil says january 5 2014 at 10 59 pm the intrinsic value of blogging reply alisha1803 says january 5 2014 at 11 59 pm i ve given up on stats and likes instead i update only when i have constructed a thorough piece in my mind rather than putting up something half assed because i must in order to be liked thanks for this reply ziaur rahman zia68 says january 6 2014 at 12 29 am enjoyed the posts on this blog i write for me but often think how my audience is going to grasp my thoughts therefore all ideas pitched must have the two audiences on the same page reply josé alfredo mendez says january 6 2014 at 1 41 am i have two blogs in one i write personal opinions on energy economic and political issues and in my other blog i write helpful information on my passion of energy efficiency and other electrical issues i am involved in i post in english and spanish when i think about it i have always blog for myself but i have been more active recently i use blogger and google analytics and also use twitter to promote this is a great blog post i found out about it because tim ferris twitted it hope you keep posting reply matt says january 6 2014 at 2 20 pm you should check out wordpress it would be a great upgrade for your blogs and there s a blogger importer that will bring over all of your posts easily reply by post author rsmacapinlacritchie says january 6 2014 at 5 07 am yea i do have to admit to being a bit obsessive compulsive on the whole stats like thumbs up thing i love the discussion here and only recently tried to start reaching out and writing for 1 or 2 people the interesting thing is really figuring out what is interesting to me and finding a way to make it resonate with the people so at the end of the day it s really writing practice reply yep this is just about right chris thilk says january 6 2014 at 5 17 am via the intrinsic value of blogging matt mullenweg reply the intrinsic value of blogging status says january 6 2014 at 6 26 am the intrinsic value of blogging reply alexandria sage says january 6 2014 at 6 29 am excellent matt i follow your points exactly and try to put out quality work i ve also found a window of time that is best for me and try to stick to that even if it passes and publishing is delayed until the next time it s worth it because it gets better traction and i do write for myself and one or two other people but it s nice to hear you articulate that though i ll probably never be famous i m still building a legacy for my family and that makes me happy reply this library without books is a hit with readers says january 6 2014 at 6 35 am information carbohydrates matt mullenweg uses the term to refer to online content that s exactingly crafted and presented in a manner to help it go reply 殊途同归 陈三 says january 6 2014 at 6 40 am the intrinsic value of blogging reply don anderson morefiber says january 6 2014 at 7 03 am so if you write for yourself two selves and one other a single person who you have in mind as the perfect person is it still necessary to push the notification out to all those channels facebook twitter linkedin path and google reply blogging is hard jeremy stewart says january 6 2014 at 7 31 am via the intrinsic value of blogging reply todd schoepflin says january 6 2014 at 7 38 am i appreciate this piece some will suggest we re supposed to be building a particular audience related advice is to be true to your brand i can t do it i don t want to be scientific or systematic about my blogging i want to write as much as i can and hope people occasionally take an interest in my writing glad you wrote this reply iza says january 6 2014 at 7 56 am this is just what i needed to read right now thanks for sharing this is good food for thought cheers reply glen says january 6 2014 at 7 58 am great post matt yes it s always a good reminder to focus on yourself and the person you are wanting to provide insights to thanks reply arthur says january 6 2014 at 8 45 am this was exactly what i needed thank you reply jay oza says january 6 2014 at 8 56 am good post i am still on the first writing for myself since i tend to forget what i was thinking even a week ago i will read my old blogs once a week pretending like i did not write them and i get happy reading them becasue i actually put thoughts into words sometimes i can t believe i wrote them and occasionally i wish i didn t write them and pray no one reads them but they are mine like your children you got to take the good with the bad reply ken pyle says january 6 2014 at 9 10 am matt how did you become so wise for your years just last night i had a conversation with someone about those posts that you put the work into aren t necessarily popular but a throw away post with little effort is sometimes the one that becomes popular good advice to not get caught up in the stats reply monday links fewer opportunities abnormal returns says january 6 2014 at 9 14 am when blogging write for yourself matt mullenweg reply suzanne little says january 6 2014 at 9 28 am right on way to crystallize something i have been struggling with i like writing i like putting my ideas into a cohesive format i think the things i write are interesting and maybe helpful and i hope people see them but the promo game feels empty so i ll just leave it at that reply donna freedman says january 6 2014 at 10 33 am i blog for a living msn money for seven years now at money talks news and freelancing for others but i ve been maintaining a personal site for about four years i m fortunate that it brings in a little money but nothing approaching a real salary but that s not why i...