Karen Rubin's Ramblings

A friend introduced me to Ill Doctrine and I find his work completely inspiring and completely intimidating. He is SO GOOD! Then I was watching his best of videos, and I got inspired by this one. 

My Little Hater tells me that I don't actually have interesting things to say. That the content I create is great for my parents and friends, but that it isn't actually relevant to the great folks I meet in my professional life.

 Then he continues by telling me it's not actually worth it to even create content for my family and friends. It's time consuming, and I see/talk to the important folks regularly, so why both blogging which is so impersonal by comparison? 

Then he comes back and reminds me that what I have to say, isn't that interesting, because I say so damn much of it - WHO CAN LISTEN THAT MUCH! So I shouldn't overwhelm them all with all my blah blah blahing about every single detail of my life.

This week, I am going to beat my little hater by posting TWICE! Ha! Take that!

What about you? What does your little hater say?  

In addition to keeping up with Karen-Rubin.com, I also have a cooking blog where I keep my friends and family updated on my exploits in the kitchen. I was checking out the traffic on Gormandizing.com today and I saw some interesting things.

These might both be super obvious observations to an experienced blogger, but I am relatively new to the game and seeing my expectations play out is fantastic.

First, when you write sensationalist titles you get more traffic! You can see from the annotated chart below that my two posts titled "Chocolate Peanut Butter Orgasms" and "This is Why You Are Fat" were posted in the same week which was also the highest traffic week in the last 5 months.

Second, if you don't write any blog posts, your traffic drops off very quickly. You can see that in the last 5 weeks, since I launched Karen-Rubin.com I have only written 3 blog posts. In that same timeframe my traffic has dropped from 90 unique visitors per week to just 6 visitors for the last 3 weeks!

 If you are writing a blog for work or fun, think about eye catching titles and make sure you are writing regularly. (By eye catching, I mean include sex terms as often as possible. By regular, I mean at least once per week if not more frequently.)