You spent a couple hours crafting a quality blog post. It's not your normal blog post. It's three times as long and it has pictures and even videos. You even wrote multiple drafts to make sure the grammar and phrasing is just right.

You're pretty excited for this blog post. You envision the comments, links, and traffic you will get. You publish it and wait for your blog post to build a buzz in your niche.

After a day, you get one comment from loyal reader. That's good, you think, but you were expecting more. It's just takes some time, you think. A few more days pass and you check your stats. Less than a hundred visitors to the post. Bummer.

Hm, maybe you need to wait a couple more days. Two weeks pass and the post has not received any links and only a trickle of traffic. You're ready to quit this blogging thing. You think, I thought blogging was about quality content. Oh well, maybe the big bloggers just got lucky. You've been trying to produce quality content but your blog goes nowhere.

The above situation has played itself out many times in the blogosphere. What did the blogger do wrong?

Read the rest of this entry