Why am I blogging?
Some people blog for money others for fame but I’m just doing it to gather my thoughts and spin off some ideas. Darren Rowse has a good article on “Should I Blog for Money” here. When begining this blog I of course read up on some blogging tips and how I can get it right from the start. However I believe in most cases, if one follows common sense then you will succeed. If you want an audience and readership why would the subscribe to a blog where they read your meanderings about your hobbies. for example, Your friends call over to your home for a chat and bring their holiday photos with them and spend all the time talking about how great their holiday was while you might have been hard at work for two weeks! Would you like to come back for more of that? Of course it’s different if you were on holidays together then you can connect in a real way with these people. So what’s the name of the game? It’s simple, one rule always applies.
Know your Audience.
So who is my audience I ask myself? hmm
- People who like to think different.
- People who encourage information sharing
- People who aren’t afraid to speak their mind
- People who are FUN
You think these attributes cover a wide area. Yep! but the aim is to keep it open, engaging and hopefully touch the minds of different folks. I guess you could say I am my own audience with a hint of pepper.
Speaking of pepper It’s time for Lunch!
I'm James O’Sullivan 
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This blog is great! Thanks for sharing your good information and thoughts! Looking forward for more interesting articles like the one on Guinness. Good job ^^
Observations/Comments
1) I’d recommend you change your server from POWWEB.COM to an Irish based host. It’ll improve you SEO.
2) Add metadata to the site ASAP.
3) nice template, works well. Clean simple layout, the way a blogs should be.
4) you might have the categories a bit more descriptive, this is REALLY good for SEO
5) I’ve found that using a robots.txt and a xml sitemap (google approved) work wonders for SEO
Other than the above a big thumbs up from me.
p.s.
Sorry for banging on about SEO but as its a blog you’ll be wanting traffic coming to the site. If you don’t want traffic and this is just some narcissistic form of self indulgence then, well……..
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for comments and feedback, particularly your reference to SEO! My next objective is to do some SEO on the blog. There are plenty of plugins, tips and tricks to achieve this so it should keep me busy for a while! I’ll write a post on what I did for optimisation. cheers.