Since the beginning of this blog, I have focused on producing quality content for would-be entrepreneurs around the world. I communicate with other bloggers, do my SEO, get inbound links and all that. But nothing prepared me for the reaction to the relatively short post I wrote last night. Within a few hours of posting it, I got several thousand hits on my blog – which is an immense amount for this site.
I was getting 50-100 hits daily, which I consider decent for a blog that is just starting out in a highly contested niche in an African country. But my post on me working 12 hours a day and how I was dealing with it suddenly attracted everyone’s attention. I think I understand the Internet just that much more now, so thank-you everyone who visited! Especially you guys from YCombinator ;)
So this got me thinking, what do people really want in a blog? And I came up with a relatively sound algorithm to create very attractive content in blog posts. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here it is (pardon my shoddy PS skills):
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