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How To Find Readers For Your Blog

I can’t see how I could post every day. Seems far-fetched, an impossibility. But while this new energy takes me, might as well ride it while it’s here.

I did a Google search on “how to find readers for your blog”. I should have known what I’d get. Articles aimed at your typical blogger today. That is, articles aimed at people wanting to make money off their blog, people trying to build either a business or a personal brand. It wasn’t helpful in the least, because that is not what I am doing here.

I complained to my wife that the personal blogs of old don’t seem to exist anymore, but we quickly set me straight on that count. You simply have to look in the right places.

I’m sure there are methods here, on Blogger, to explore other blogs, which I may do. I’m sure Wordpress.com has similar abilities. Both platforms seem to have “Reader” features, methods for you to compile perhaps lists or feeds of blogs you follow. That indicates to me that there are likely thousands to tens of thousands of other personal blogs out there, people doing what I am doing here, just sharing our thoughts with the world, should the world care to listen.

My wife has recently gotten very interested in Cliffton StrengthsFinder. She had me take the test, of course, and I ranked high for input, learning, etcetera. People like this, supposedly, people like me need outlets, lest they consume their way to being all mentally stopped up and useless. I have certainly fit that description at times.

I’ve done journaling for over 20 years, but usually the introspective sort of “dear diary” drivel that gets tiring even to write, much less read. So, this could be a nice change of pace, a chance to work on articulating thoughts in a way other people can follow and maybe one day respond to.

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