Wordpress Help Wanted

Huckfillary ^ | June 4, 2014 | huckfillary

[huckfillary]

I started a WordPress Blog a few months ago and basically don't know what I'm doing. I can write, but am IT-challenged. Since I began the blog, I have not had one, repeat one, response. My stats indicate that I am getting "hits," but not one person has commented on my essays. I know I'm not Charles Krauthammer but I can't believe I have not had a single response. I can't help but think my settings or something need adjusted. Please advise. Thank you.

[ccmay]

Post the whole content. Some folks hereabouts get pissy about that.

Agreed. What you want to do is target sites where like-minded folks hang out and promote your blog there in accordance with the local culture's norms. Here, they want everything posted with no excerpting. Some other places may vehemently object to long detailed posts cluttering things up, but be tolerant of short snippets.

Follow the site owner's rules, not yielding to the self-appointed spam police amongst the other users. If they are not moderators, f*** them. You're talking to other people who might be very interested in what you have to say.

[humblegunner]

If they are not moderators, f*** them.

Really? Even if they are relaying the wishes of the owner?

So it's fine to go to a restaurant, drop trou and take a dump on the floor because the manager didn't tell you not to?

There are times and places where listening to your peers and fellow users is a real good thing.

Normal people know this.

[huckfillary]

Man, that’s as often as I get inspired. Like sex, once a month if I’m real lucky. It has to be perfect to me before I post it. I have dozens of essays on my hard drive that I just don’t consider for public consumption. Quality trumps quantity. I’d rather have four essays that I’m truly proud of than hundreds of half-assed ones.

[ccmay]

Not a good analogy. Defecating on the floor is frowned upon in all establishments.

But here at FR, and at every other site I’ve spent time, there is a certain contingent of users with no formal administrative role who consider themselves the arbiters of appropriate behavior. They are the electronic equivalent of the old HOA busybodies who patrol their neighborhoods with a golf cart and a clipboard, writing down everyone whose hedge is an inch too high. They are not enforcing the wishes of the site owner, they are enforcing their own prejudices.

[humblegunner]

Well then you should point them out and disable their golf carts.

Me, I’ll keep smacking blogpimps upside the head with my Randy Savage 2x4.

[trisham]

We don’t have that problem here. Our site owner has made himself perfectly clear.

“I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.”
~Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:06:19 PM by Jim Robinson

[humblegunner]

Oops.. correction.

Hacksaw Jim Duggan:

[Mortrey]

Bookmarked for great Freeper info.

(Good luck, huckfillary.)

[9YearLurker]

Nah—that’s just FR’s free, crowd-sourced, editing service.

[hulagirl]

Thanks but this direction doesn’t say how to choose the correct “category” which is where I seem to go wrong.

[tenger]

And get flamed for too many vanity posts, or for one misspelled word, or for grammar, or punctuation errors, or....!

Boy, do you have that right! FR is an often belligerent and obnoxious audience to write for. I posted my devotional on here (after it was published on my blog first) a few times years ago, and it only took 1 person to lecture me on how the words I wrote was what was wrong with modern Christianity or some such malarkey...and he claimed to be a Believer. Dream killers really. Who needs it? Yeah, so I'm a little thin skinned. That blog/devotional has been updated every day for the last 6 years I'm happy to say!

To the OP, you're competing with millions of others. Where is the traffic coming from? Install a good statistics plugin (statpress comes to mind) (google it). You have to write and write and write to be heard, and even then you have to have others like your stuff. People spend years trying to figure out proper search engine optimization. And most do not succeed. One post will not get you a ton of traffic. A thousand posts might be a good start. Yes, it takes that long.