I guess I will hit the ground running in 2018, as I take a quick break from writing the book.
Have you ever had unsolicited advice on your job? If you’re a nurse, the guy off the street tells you how to do patient care, or everyone’s suddenly a real estate agent, lawyer, architect, or any of a thousand other tasks where there’s some specialized skill or training involved?
Try being a blogger.
A few days back I received a list of everything I do wrong. This is copied verbatim except I fixed the bullet points to format.
Hope you are doing well.
A quick analysis reveals your website Monoblogue.Us having different technical glitches, where natural traffic is very low. Well, this is not the only reason for your website performance, because this list prolongs.
What we see from initial analysis of your website, it has been impacted much with recent updates from Google.
Here are some points where your website needs immediate attention:
- For many competitive keywords or, phrases your website stands beyond 10th page of Google.
- Your websites compatibility with many browsers and devices seems inconsistent.
- Found lot more scripts and css files that are increasing page loading time.
- Multiple links from same directory and author sites, downgrading link authority score to 30%.
- As far as social shares and posts are concerned you need to work and improvise a lot.
It could well be I’m guilty of all of them. Still, if I were to write back to “Sonia Rose, Marketing Consultant” I would have to ask whether they realize that we speak English here and tell them that proofreading is your friend. In this case, though, I’d rather shame them publicly.
You see, I really don’t give a rat’s rear end what Google page I’m on for “competitive keywords” because that’s not why I do this. “Link authority score”? I link to what I need to in order to get my point across. Scripts and CSS files probably come from WordPress, not from something I add. I’ve run the same theme since 2010 or so, thus the widgets are probably legacy ones but no matter.
If you’re worried that I’m suddenly going to sell out, not a chance. I’m still going to feature the same insight and occasional snark as I have since 2005 here in 2018, although probably less than most readers would like since I want to get a book out, too.
I just think it’s hilarious that people want me to hand them over good money to tell me how to be a blogger. I think in almost 13 years at it I know a little bit – but the two most important lessons are to write from the heart and never write something you’ll lose sleep over. As long as I don’t stray from those two tenets I have a success regardless of Google placement.
To you and yours, have a happy and blessed 2018!