So, after looking around to find out more about blogging, I've managed to scare myself. First off, it looks like Blogger itself is just oh-so-passe (and not what the clever kids do). Akin to an AOL emai address, I heard! (eep).
Secondly, there's about 3 million different things you should sign up for to add to your blog to make it better and more interesting and look more cool and attract more people and offer more content and make more money and , and...and...
Thirdly I still don't get trackbacks. I think my mind is on strike today.
Fourthly (um?) do I even have anything worth saying? Is anyone going to care? Why am I doing this? What's the point? So far, I know my hubby enjoys reading it. When I tell him to, anyway.
Fifthly (okay, don't ask) I'm not clever enough with technical things to understand or be able to use Wordpress. So does that mean I can't do a good blog just because I'm not technical? That kind of seems a little unfair. I thought the whole point of blogs was that anyone can do one, because we've all got something to say.
Grrr. Guess I'm having one of those 'is-there-anything-i-can-do-successfully?' days. You know the ones. Where's the wine?!?
Well, my .02 only. I'm in the US, and I don't know how much (if any) of these services are different in the UK, so your mileage may vary.
ReplyDeleteI had my blog on blogger for a year, and I found myself increasingly frustrated with it--too many spam comments, too much downtime on their end, and I found myself worrying too much about the kinds of things you're talking about--how do I add features that will draw traffic to my blog. I looked around and thought for a while about buying a domain name, but it was just way too complicated.
I eventually decided to switch to the free version of Wordpress, which is not complicated at all, partly because it's not customizable. You can't change your template at all. What I like about it is that it really makes me focus on writing, which I think is the thing that I started writing a blog for in the first place--not to get comments, or have traffic.