Abouth this Blog | Blogging with an Audience in Mind

Hi, I'm Ronnie. You've just stumbled on my little nOOk in the wide world of blogging. I hope I won't bore you with my 'mixed bag' weblog. Originally, this was a career blog. However, there are some interests that I could not possibly post elsewhere, so this blog had to take a different turn.

I started blogging for myself. I never had the intention of publishing any of the articles and notes I have written for public consumption. What prompted me to publicize was the idea of sharing some of my motivational insights about work and life with my office staff.

The radical shift from a private blog into a public one carries with it a huge responsibility. For one, I am no longer writing to express what I think and feel at the moment, having myself as my only audience. Two, I have to write in order to encourage, instruct or inspire my staff, friends and a few relatives as my added audience. Hence I started blogging with a different intent, more frequent and regularly, in a more formal tone, and post varied useful topics addressed to them. It was rigid, yet fulfilling in the long run especially reading their comments or reactions. I grew with them in the process.

Then a couple of months ago, another paradigm shift took place, I am no longer blogging for them either. Now the demand and responsibility is greater. Due to the unsolicited responses I received from other audience other than my staff, friends and relatives, I begun blogging with a larger audience in mind. Audience that I never knew, audience that I never met. That was a challenge that seems difficult to hurdle, but I headed for it with gusto. It was an exhilarating feat.

Blogging for a larger audience, honestly, thrilled me. That thrill bred another desire. I started craving for more unique visitors each day and at least a 4-figure number on my subscribers or feed readership daily. I thought, the task is easier as long as you write interesting topics. But I am wrong. And probably, for most of you know what I missed. Yeah, promotion of my blog. To get the number of unique visitors everyday, which you want to address with your post, will take you beyond just writing an excellent topic. Four essential and practical things you need to do:

1. Know your audience. Analyze your stats and see where they are coming from. Read their profiles, where possible, to know which demographic profile they belong.
2. Promote and market your blog. Linking with other blogs and joining forums is an excellent cost-effective means.
   
3. Optimize your blog for search engines. You don't need to be technically savvy to learn this. The best sources are MMO blogs -read them.
4. Lastly, join social networking medias or directory to boost your feed readership and traffic. Socialize, because you are now blogging in the Web 2.0 era!
   

Now, if you are the type of blogger, like me, who simply wants a wider readership to share your thoughts on various subjects then just blog your heart out.

Welcome to my nOOk! Btw, before you leave, you might want to subscribe for updates via RSS or Emai. Lastly, I'd love to hear from you, so please leave your comments/reactions/suggestions/messages after each post. Thank you and cheers!

DISCLOSURE POLICY
This policy is valid from 20 August 2007

1. This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact me at ronnie.ferez [at]gmail[dot]com.
2. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
3. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.
4. The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
5. This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

*Updated 01 September 2008

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