When we first start blogging our family history, there's a kind of pressure to blog...
every
single
day.
But? Is this really necessary?
every
single
day.
But? Is this really necessary?
No. It's not necessary to blog every day. If you want to blog once a week, that's fine. If you want to blog once a month, that's fine.
Then why does there seem to be this pressure to blog every single day?
Because that's an old blogging business model. You see, before Google tweaked its algorithms to eliminate poorly designed websites and blogs {with all those tacky ads} from ending up on the top of their search results, a common blog business model was to setup a blog, post content every single day {quality content totally optional}, slap a bunch of ads on there, promote the blog and each post, and manipulate or game the Google Search Engine so that their blog posts and/or website ended up on the top of the Search Engine Results Page [SERP]. The idea was the higher the amount of traffic, the increase in the percentage of folks who'd click on the ads and then the blog/site owner collected a check for all that advertising. {And that's just the basics.}
But? As family history bloggers {at least for me on my personal family history blog, Family Stories}, we're not in business.
Well, not that kind of business.
We're just looking for cousins and wanting to share our family history to just about anyone who will listen and pretend to be interested.
It's about quality and not quantity.
Yes, we want to encourage potential cousins to contact us so that maybe ~just maybe~ we can collaborate and break down some research brick walls. Or we'd like to just share our family history with our loved ones.
And we don't need to blog every single day {thankyouverymuch} to do that.
~Caroline
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Then why does there seem to be this pressure to blog every single day?
Because that's an old blogging business model. You see, before Google tweaked its algorithms to eliminate poorly designed websites and blogs {with all those tacky ads} from ending up on the top of their search results, a common blog business model was to setup a blog, post content every single day {quality content totally optional}, slap a bunch of ads on there, promote the blog and each post, and manipulate or game the Google Search Engine so that their blog posts and/or website ended up on the top of the Search Engine Results Page [SERP]. The idea was the higher the amount of traffic, the increase in the percentage of folks who'd click on the ads and then the blog/site owner collected a check for all that advertising. {And that's just the basics.}
But? As family history bloggers {at least for me on my personal family history blog, Family Stories}, we're not in business.
Well, not that kind of business.
We're just looking for cousins and wanting to share our family history to just about anyone who will listen and pretend to be interested.
It's about quality and not quantity.
Yes, we want to encourage potential cousins to contact us so that maybe ~just maybe~ we can collaborate and break down some research brick walls. Or we'd like to just share our family history with our loved ones.
And we don't need to blog every single day {thankyouverymuch} to do that.
~Caroline
Something New:
If you enjoyed this blog post and would like to NOT miss another blog post, then please sign up for Email Blog Post Updates. Basically, every time I update BloggingGenealogy.com with a new blog post {which is not every day}, you get it sent straight to your email inbox. Easy peasy.
