I’ve been writing these bookshelf posts for a few months now – 25 posts in total – and I am starting to wonder whether there is much value in continuing with them. As with most bloggers, especially new ones, it sometimes feels as if I am writing into a void.
Am I? Does anyone actually get anything from these posts, or is it time for me to switch on to something else? This may read like some kind of existential crisis, but it isn’t – having spent a year running social media for a local recruitment company, I know how easy it is to fall into the trap of chasing page views and hits as opposed to proper engagement with content that really interests your (in my case pretty limited) readership.
There were 865 different unique visitors to my blog last month. Is this good, is this bad? I don’t get too many comments here – apart from those from all the lovely spammers of course (thank you for your deep interest in my page 😉 ), so it’s not always easy to tell.
So if you’ve enjoyed reading these from my bookshelf posts and want me to continue with them then let me know in the comments. If not, feel free to let me know why. Either way, it would be really interesting to see what people would like to see from a blog such as this moving forwards. If anything!
Do I carry on with these weekly bookshelf pages and weekly audio recordings, or do I just use this as a place for my own random ramblings? If no one is reading it and getting any value from them, is there any point?
And please, please, don’t take this as some kind of cry in the dark. I’m not upset either way – but if there really is minimal interest, then I’ll be happy to use the time in a different way.