Comments on: Sorry, your blog stinks!

By: Snow conditions at Whistler

Snow conditions at Whistler — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:38:03 +0000

My blog is pretty new, its about the snow conditions for a ski resort in Canada. I too thought, ‘Hey great, I will write about it, and everyone will come’ well they haven’t yet. I am hoping that in time, people will find the value in my blog, which is a real report on the current conditions, and not what the company wants people to think.

By: Masked Man

Masked Man — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:20:07 +0000

Repeat traffic will tell if your blog stinks or not. Good posts but poor design? Awesome design but bad articles?

By: Desty

Desty — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:57:51 +0000

Wondering if your blog is a stinker or not is a big concern. I’ve been blogging since May and am just now getting over 50 RSS subscribers. I rarely get over 5 comments on an article. You know how everyone tells you that your writing is great, yada yada yada. Maybe I just don’t have enough exposure, I don’t know…

By: Entrepreneurial Interviews

Entrepreneurial Interviews — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:39:24 +0000

If your blog stinks, then nobody will go there.. or if they DO go there, they won’t contribute – they’ll simply leave.

If your blog doesn’t stink, they will come back

By: Stine

Stine — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:07:24 +0000

Possibly a better idea still is to inspire the reader to think HE is a smart person.

By: Lucio Dias ribeiro

Lucio Dias ribeiro — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:09:40 +0000

Pretty Much Chris Garret said, Too much about “me” and not enough about “you”.
David Canergie once said, the most clever are those who in a talk, speak less and agree more, you inspire your speaker to think you are an smart person,.
Cheers
Lucio Dias Ribeiro

By: khalid

khalid — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:05:40 +0000

@Chris, I do not think you have to worry about “stinky” posts

The litmus test sounds good although you must have some objectivity to be able to ask that question. My friend did not.

@Steven, yeah, I did that friend and we had a laugh about it. My new rule of thumb is “let the visitor decide”

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:20:57 +0000

Chris you don’t write many stinkers.

Khalid did you tell your friend prior to writing this post? It never ceases to amaze me which of my posts do well and which don’t. I’ve written some that I thought would surely generate a lot of chatter only to have no one even notice. Then there have been times where I posted something with less than my full effort only to find they’ve been submitted to one or another social media site and are bringing traffic, links, and comments.

I’m not sure how you would go about measuring stinkiness. I think a lot of what you might consider to be a sign isn’t necessarily an indicator something is bad. Sometimes a good post misses because it failed to attract the right person at the right moment.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:19:53 +0000

My readers are very good at telling me when I post a stinker, or partial stinker I think the key thing, and it might well be the case in the video example from what you have described, is it has to be of value to the audience and not the publisher. Too much “me” and not enough “you” is likely to make a stink. The litmus test is “will anyone but me find this useful?”