Comments on: Optimizing blogging with S-curves http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/optimizing-blogging-with-s-curves.html Financial independence, frugality, self-sufficiency, ecology, capitalism, and voluntary simplicity Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:23:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jacob http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/optimizing-blogging-with-s-curves.html#comment-282 Jacob Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:57:54 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/optimizing-blogging-with-s-curves.html#comment-282 @ sydney - I honestly have no idea of what the potential is. I would consider myself wildly successful and ahead of 99% of all personal finance blogs if I reached 5000 subscribers. I think after that point one has to grow in areas outside of the pf blogosphere. Just guessing. @ hunter - never thought of it as if it would drown in the noise of the bigger sites anyway. @ sydney - I honestly have no idea of what the potential is. I would consider myself wildly successful and ahead of 99% of all personal finance blogs if I reached 5000 subscribers. I think after that point one has to grow in areas outside of the pf blogosphere. Just guessing.

@ hunter - never thought of it as if it would drown in the noise of the bigger sites anyway.

]]> By: Hunter Nuttall http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/optimizing-blogging-with-s-curves.html#comment-272 Hunter Nuttall Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:14:48 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/optimizing-blogging-with-s-curves.html#comment-272 I've recently seen firsthand the benefits of StumbleUpon for a new blogger. I've never stumbled my own posts though; it just doesn't seem right to me. However, one benefit to the blogosphere when people stumble their own posts is that it helps small bloggers more than big bloggers. A big blogger can write anything and automatically get tons of stumbles, so one more stumble doesn't matter. But when a small blogger gets that first stumble...suddenly they're on the map. But still, I don't stumble my own posts. I’ve recently seen firsthand the benefits of StumbleUpon for a new blogger. I’ve never stumbled my own posts though; it just doesn’t seem right to me.

However, one benefit to the blogosphere when people stumble their own posts is that it helps small bloggers more than big bloggers. A big blogger can write anything and automatically get tons of stumbles, so one more stumble doesn’t matter. But when a small blogger gets that first stumble…suddenly they’re on the map. But still, I don’t stumble my own posts.

]]> By: Sydney Lagier http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/optimizing-blogging-with-s-curves.html#comment-271 Sydney Lagier Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:27:35 +0000 http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2008/01/optimizing-blogging-with-s-curves.html#comment-271 I'm not so sure about that "there are only so many blog readers in the world". I just started blogging a few months ago because, the truth is, I didn't even know what a blog was 6 months ago! And when I tell my friends to go read my blog, the VAST majority of them have no idea what I'm talking about. It's just like email and internet connections. Twenty years ago, none of my friends had email or internet for that matter. Now I don't have a family member or friend that doesn't have email. While there may be a potential set number of blog readers, I think there's a long way to go before we see the market saturated! I’m not so sure about that “there are only so many blog readers in the world”. I just started blogging a few months ago because, the truth is, I didn’t even know what a blog was 6 months ago! And when I tell my friends to go read my blog, the VAST majority of them have no idea what I’m talking about.

It’s just like email and internet connections. Twenty years ago, none of my friends had email or internet for that matter. Now I don’t have a family member or friend that doesn’t have email.

While there may be a potential set number of blog readers, I think there’s a long way to go before we see the market saturated!

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