Is YOUR Blog Worth MY Time?

Have you ever asked yourself if you think that the content that you write on your blog is worth being talked about? I have several times and it is one of the reasons as to why I created the series on Google Webmaster Tools. I am just now starting to see some organic traffic from Google and while I haven’t received much feedback on the series, my goal is to inform those that are looking for information and to answer any questions that they may have.

I started my blog because I have an interest in affiliate marketing and it is something for me to chronicle and look back upon. I can use my blog to either vent my frustrations and make posts about me losing money and at the same time I can make posts about me making money (hopefully soon). Yet at the same time as you may have noticed, I use my blog to write about what peaks my interest during that present time. Whether it be creating a Google Alert, creating a custom 404 page or anything that deals with me and the progress of the sites that I am currently working on.

If people find my posts and it helps them or gives them a different way to look at something then I have accomplished my mission. If they haven’t found their answer it would be nice if they left a comment or sent me an email asking for further information. Currently I have had only one person actually email me asking about more information and I was glad to have helped him.

I try to make my blog worth anybody’s time that they spend here and hopefully I am doing that so far. For those of you that don’t know, all of the links on my blog pointing to other blogs or sites are NOT nofollowed. So whenever I post a keyword rich link to somebody’s site or blog, while I am passing very little PageRank if any, I still like to think that I am helping them even in a small way. That is what I believe to make a blog a worthwhile read and why I have my blog setup the way I do. (If you happen to find a link that IS nofollowed, LET ME KNOW!).

I think people worry way too much about their PageRank and fear passing even a tiny bit of it on to anybody that they link to. Are you one of those people that don’t want to pass out PageRank? You do realize that the PageRank that you do have is only because of people that have linked back to you right? And your readers of your blog contribute their time and information to your blog, yet you aren’t willing to help them out?

I’m not saying that I won’t comment on your blog or add to the conversations on your posts, but you can bet your ass that I would be doing a hell of a lot more commenting on your blog if you made it worth my time by helping me out with links. I recently updated my advertising page and those that have read it may have found that I will link to their site or product for free. I am not necessarily into doing a whole review post on my blog just yet, though it may happen in the very near future. But as I said on my advertising page, if you believe that your site or your product can help others and you are looking for a way to gather some precious ONE-WAY backlinks, get to know me and I WILL help you out. Ask me questions or leave comments if you don’t understand something about my posts, I will do what I can to assist you with your questions and if I can’t help you out, I can definitely get in touch with somebody that can.

Go through a few of my more recent posts, in fact some of my Week In Review posts and you will find that I have linked to Garry Conn multiple times. Why have I done this exactly? Because I have learned a lot from Garry’s blog and when I have always asked him a question about something he always responded to me. Maybe it wasn’t right away but he did eventually respond and that is why I am more then happy to give him a few backlinks here and there.

I was recently contacted by Spencer Haws who runs a paid surveys website. He read my Weekly Review post where I mentioned that I had gotten into site flipping and he wanted to know a little bit more about it. So I responded back to him with what I knew and judging from the email I got back from him he was happy with my answer. I appreciate that he contacted me instead of just forgetting about my blog and finding another blog so within this post and some in the future I will be sending him some links.

Let’s face it, when it comes to blogs we want traffic and more importantly we want readers. We want people who are willing to communicate with others through the comments and add value and diversity to our blogs. Would you seriously continue to post knowing that you would never receive any traffic? Hell no and you probably wouldn’t keep posting if all you got were visitors and not readers.

While I am nobody special I am willing to help out others. So going back to the title of this post, is your blog worth my time?