Thursday, May 11, 2006

Jennifer's Musings: what do you think?

After monitoring well the visits and page views to "Jennifer’s Musings", I have been observing the slow decline in visits over the past several weeks. So that got me to thinking; what is it that readers want in a blog? Of course every blog has it’s unique style and standards. But for a reader to keep interested, what does it take? Should I keep my posts serious and steady, or throw in some light hearted joke and kind of scatter things every once in a while?

While I am contemplating these questions, I would appreciate any thoughts that you, my readers, might have as to how I can keep my blog interesting and thought provoking. While I want to keep a constant “support our troops” theme going, I also want to present a variety of subjects going that would attract a large audience.

Blogging has become a fun, yet educational activity for me, and I try to keep serious about setting my standards high. In my desire to lead people to the truth, and God, I would like to make sure that my blog is time worthy enough to attract a wide audience.

So please leave a comment and let me know what you think! Here are a few of my main concerns:

Are my posts too similar, and too long?

Do I post often enough about progress in Iraq?

What kind of posts on this blog have you enjoyed most?

What changes (relevant to my themes) would you like to see?

5 comments:

Camille said...

Well, I'm a new reader, so I can't say that my advice will count for much, but what I think attracts a wide variety of leaders is average length posts about 3 times a week. I don't know much about the theme of your blog, but I find that with my blog, the more I post on what God has been teaching me, the more comments I get. When I post on something uninteresting to myself, I am not enthusiastic about it. Also, I live on comments, so I have to make sure that I am blogging for the right reasons.

Keep up the good work on your blog! I look forward to reading it more often.

RobertDWood said...

Heh.

More war posts.
And the arguements that came with them. :D

Sorry. More seriously...
War posts. :D

Motherpearl said...

Maybe comments are declining because anonymous isn't around to spice things up any more.

Anna Naomi said...

I don't think lacking Anonymous is anything bad! :-) I've really enjoyed all your posts Jen, especially the ones pertaining to Biblical womanhood and the like, but maybe that's because I'm a girl! I think some of the greatest posts are ones written about what you've been up to and what you've learned. Keep it up!

TheEarthCanBeMoved said...

I track my blog to,
And I've found that the more often you post,
The more visitors you draw in.
A good mix in content seems to help too.