What brought you here . . . and will there be a blog for you to read anymore?
Every now and again, Popehat (one of my favorite blogs) examines the “Road to Popehat“, that is, the search queries that bring random guests to their blog. Of course, I have far fewer readers than the Ken, Patrick and Ezra, but I thought I’d do the same thing.
It’s an odd assortment of phrases that you might expect would bring one to a (quasi) mediation themed blog: my name, “arbitration”, “mediation”, “what does a mediator do”, “ridiculous lawsuits” (even though others have that well covered). Some are odd, but related to some key words in stories on which I commented, like “tricked out Mustang GT,” or “cheetah chasing gazelle“.
But one recent query really jumped out:
“how to screw spouse in mediation”
Of course, I had to run the search myself to see what would bring such a despicable person to my blog, because I am 100% certain I have never written an article about how to “screw” anybody. Turns out that Google search picked out keywords from my recent re-post “How to Screw Up A Mediation.“ Phew.
One thing I did notice, though is that my most recent search queries are long on queries regarding my more humorous posts and short on anything substantive. I need to do some serious thinking about whether a) I need to spend some time ruminating and writing about mediation again or b) scrap the whole blog, as I have seen absolutely no real benefit to my practice, which was the real purpose of the blog (well, secondary to my own narcissism). I should be focusing on more face-to-face marketing efforts. I think “Web 2.0″ (especially twitter – which is a real time bandit) rarely bears fruit.
I’m leaning toward scrapping the blog and leaving it to the professionals like Diane, Vickie, Geoff, Nancy, etc.
We’ll see.
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Chris, I too have felt like this at various stages of my blogging career. It just takes one person (and I’m your one) to say, no — we value your work, we may not give you as much feedback as you would like but that is the lot of a blogger.
Please don’t leave it too “us” — the diversity of voices in the blogosphere is very important and if people are searching your more flippant posts, celebrate that and gently steer your blog to where you want it to go taking those people with you.
I have your blog in my RSS feed and look at every new post you put up and often have a quiet chuckle. Please don’t deprive me of that enjoyment.
Chris–
I always look forward to your posts. And I assure you I found your site by way of a different search–
JD
I appreciate the compliment.
I despair of running our blog now and then, when I run out of energy or ideas, or when posts I dash out in two minutes get huge links and posts I labor over and care about get ignored. I suspect most bloggers think about hanging it up.
But you’ve put in a lot of good work here. Have you considered finding people with similar interests to make it a group blog? That can be a way to revitalize what you are doing and use synergies to drive traffic. Also, consider a mere hiatus instead of shutting the blog, which tends to have an irrevocable effect.
Of course, since I blog anonymously (well, mostly — two reporters have successfully identified me), I don’t have the same goals as you.
Chris, I’d be sad as hell if you departed from the ADR blogosphere. I can always count on you for a good laugh or a flash of insight. Don’t take that away from readers like me, Geoff, Ken, John, and the others. We need an iconoclast like you who points out that the emperor sports no clothes.