Categories: Blogging

Just felt like reporting on the state of my blog, and I am ashamed to say that the state of my blog is in shambles. Apparently, my blog’s going down the toilet, according to my stats. My Silktide Sitescore is now 6.1. Once it was in the high 70s. My blog ranks so low in terms of traffic they can’t assign it a number, and it was once going to break the 1 million barrier. My hits are less than half of what they used to be. Having 10 or more comments on each post was once a regular occurrence. Now I’m lucky if I get 5. And I feel as if I’m losing my connection with my readers. Posting as getting harder, as the thoughts that made my blog popular don’t flow as freely anymore, as I am too preoccupied with schoolwork, and it reflects in my posting frequency, which is a shadow of what it once was.

Taking a break from blogging the other day, which I thought would help me refresh my mind and regain my focus, made things worse, as I got used on the free time I gained, and made me put less priority on blogging. Plus the fact that many of my fellow Caribbean bloggers are posting less and some are quitting make it even harder for me to regain my enthusiasm for blogging. But my poor Silktide score woke me up. I am neglecting my blog, and now I have decided to go back to basics to recapture what made me enjoy blogging in the first place. I need to remember that posting should be fun, and not a chore as it has been for me lately. I need to remember that I have an obligation to my readers and need to comment on blogs more often in order build new relationships with bloggers, and strengthen the ones I have already established. If I do these things, I’m absolutely certain I can get my blog out of the rut it’s in.