Comments on: How To Become A Semi-Successful Blogger

By: Drew Douglass

Drew Douglass — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:27:21 +0000

Hi John,

I have been browsing your blog for awhile now and wanted to say thanks for the article, the first paragraph is a huge one to me and one I have finally come to understand.
Anyway, I felt I owed you a thanks as I have been lurking for a while now.

Best Regards,

Drew

By: Dr. Y

Dr. Y — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:46:33 +0000

Everything you said felt so familiar
I started my blog almost two weeks ago. I got 431 visiters till now. As you said, friends and relatives

Anyway, thanks for shaing you experience.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:01:31 +0000

I’ve been in S2 for 3 months now – hoping to get to S3 by new year!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:09:21 +0000

I must admit I went throught Phases 1-III and beyond with Sciencebase.com without really noticing it. Now, I worry about getting to 3000 subscribers (like John

But, with Sciencetext, I’m hovering on the cusp – 97 as of Sunday, but 105 last week…not sure how to break through with that site.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:00:52 +0000

Great post. I just recently made it to phase 2 also. It’s crazy when you run into someone else quoting you who you respect. I have had that happen a couple of times now. It’s hard not to get a big head really quick.

By: PHP Tutorials

PHP Tutorials — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:39:26 +0000

really good and original tips Jake. Thanks fro sharing.

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:49:19 +0000

“Believe that your voice deserves to be heard”

That’s truly sums up the confidence required. But my policy is that we should always think that our blog is going to successful one day and it’s matter of time that it’s popular.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:31:24 +0000

I see we both lost a stack of RSS subscribers overnight again! Sciencebase went from 2800 to 2250 approximately, but my other feeds all fell by the same proportion as you as well. Google Feedfetcher issues at Feedburner methinks…

I reckon they better get it fixed soon otherwise all us semi-successful bloggers are going to blogger off…

By: Jake Bouma

Jake Bouma — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:19:05 +0000

Thanks, maneesh.

By: maneesh

maneesh — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:07:44 +0000

nice post jake.. I don’t know if it can be summed up perfectly, but if it has to,once can say every blogger has to be self confident. Everything that you said in a way boils down to being confident about your abilities – knowing you have picked the right niche, interacting with your audience with your honest opinions, shamelessly promoting…

@michael
Sex and blogging need not be necessarily controversial, but it does have its own share of attractiveness for obvious reasons which actually brings a lot of spammers.. one of my most popular and most spammed post is one named “the blog is a condom”