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I am no expert here. I am simply a blogger who is experiencing some issues and thus feel I should seek some constructive insight. I think that I am going to continue with the thread of blogging retrospect since, ironically enough, my last post has gained me some exposure!

I think that a problem that I have noticed of late is bloggers (myself included) who are not identifying with their blog. This blog started off as a photography blog, then mutated in to a news blog, then in to a random banter blog about work and is now what it is, whatever that might be.

I blog a lot but sometimes I find that I am blogging because I have set a daily post precedent that I can’t break. I then blog about things that are not relevant to my blog and the themes that I have chosen. This means that I am not identifying with my blog anymore. This ties in quite nicely with what I was talking about yesterday and the reasons that you blog.

If you are searching for things to blog about and the search is long, tiresome and often fruitless then don’t blog today. I know that all the “experts” will tell you that you should blog consistently. Screw that. If it’s killing your blog stop blogging.

Have you ever thought that your blogging, you actually blogging, might be destroying your blog? I have, I often think that I am my biggest problem! I am probably right and should stop blogging, but I don’t. I can’t. I am a prison of my blog; I have stopped identifying with my blog.

I am happy with what I am blogging about for sure but I often don’t have the discipline to stick to my themes and blog, or not blog.

It is important, in my opinion and experience to know what you are trying to get across and to maintain a consistent approach to your theme and topics. Rants, insults and bullshit blogs will rise quickly but fall just as fast. Stick to what you know and love and I reckon you will be able to identify not only with your own blog, but with your readers and what they are looking for.

Like Dave said in a comment on my last post about this topic, looking at the numbers is not always bad because their are readers behind the numbers and they are the ones that matter. Good point and good advice, but don’t replace identifying with your blog and readers with identifying with numbers. There is a difference.