This summer I’ve found that blogging became less and less enjoyable: I found a solution. I spent too long worrying about statistics: how many people visited my blog, how my blog compared to others (Alexa ranks etc) and what people were visiting.

I tried to write for my audience and not for myself. Ironically, as a result of this audience participation fell. I realised this but realised I’d continue to do the former until I stopped worrying about statistics so I uninstalled my Alexa, Compete and Google PageRank Firefox extensions.

I enjoy blogging again; I want to blog. I don’t put off writing a post as long as I can but I do one whenever I feel like it (which is fairly frequently again :)). I don’t have to spend hours brainstorming for ideas; they just come.

More observant readers might have noticed a shift from reviews which became tedious to write towards a more ‘general’ style of blogging.

So to put it briefly: blog for yourself and the odds are your audience will like it. Don’t worry about statistics, either!

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