1,000 Posts!
As I was looking at my dashboard just now, I noticed that this will be my 1,000th post here at MishmashMusings.com! I can’t believe I reached that number in just 25 months — especially since I run three other blogs that have similar post counts! That’s a lot of blogging in the past two years.
I have to admit that out of all my blogs, this is the one that needs the most work. It’s the only one without a real identity, as my others pretty much have a single niche that the posts fall into. Originally, I wanted this blog to be filled with more personal stuff, like about my family and work, but after a few months, I realized that I simply wasn’t getting enough search engine traffic based on that stuff.
So then I started posting about current events, and got more hits — but lost that personal connection with readers. Very few people leave comments about news stories, unless it’s something highly controversial, like the Victoria Lindsay beating.
Anyway, from this point forward, I think I’m going to try to find more of a balance between the two extremes. I’ll try posting about my home/family life at least a couple times a week and post about current events on the remaining days. Maybe this approach will do the trick of getting more readers involved in the conversation, while not sacrificing search engine traffic in the process.