Do you blog?

[fotch]

No Blog, Facebook, Twitter. All seem rather pointless, then again, that is just my opinion, maybe I am wrong.

 

[Sirius Glass]

No Blog, Facebook, Twitter. All seem rather pointless, then again, that is just my opinion, maybe I am wrong.

No you are not wrong. You pretty much nailed it.

 

[David Brown]

No Blog, Facebook, Twitter. All seem rather pointless, ...

Why would a blog about photography seem "pointless" as compared to APUG? :confused:

Social media is another issue. From some of the responses, it would appear that there is confusion about blogs and social media. I don't see them as the same thing, but I do agree that many people use one for the other.

To my mind a good blog is basically a website with continuous updates. Certainly not a play by play of one's daily mundane activities ...

 

[Jesper]

No blog. In fact, no digital presence at all on any forum except apug.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Why would a blog about photography seem "pointless" as compared to APUG? :confused:

 

[Sirius Glass]

No blog. In fact, no digital presence at all on any forum except apug.

Yep. :munch::munch::munch::munch::munch:

 

[DREW WILEY]

Aren't blogs what they carved peat moss bricks out of, back when our ancestors lived in hole in the ground full of lice and fleas?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Aren't blogs what they carved peat moss bricks out of, back when our ancestors lived in hole in the ground full of lice and fleas?

Yep.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

That's bogs, Drew. Bogs. You just reminded me of a Corner Gas episode where Hank had a blog and Brent's mother called it a glog. Go to the 7:39 mark...

[video=youtube;KAYhlNh0xtY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KAYhlNh0xtY#t=459[/video]

 

[Sirius Glass]

No not a glog, a grog!

Besides much easier to swallow.

 

[georg16nik]

A lot of photographers and artists have blogs. I started one about a year ago to promote an exhibition (last October) of analog photographs. I elected to continue the blog and just write about photography in general and my own work.

However, maintaining a blog takes a lot of time. Not the computer maintenance; the writing and editing of posts and articles.

Do you blog?

What's your traffic (readership) like?

I'm finding the stats on my blog are making it just not worth the time I spend. I have no illusions that I am making the world better for photography or photographers by blogging, I just thought it would be mildly entertaining. But there are thousands of blogs! Hard to be heard in all the noise.

How about the blog part of APUG? Not much traffic there, either ...

http://silverdarkroom.wordpress.com/ or different address?

 

[David Brown]

http://silverdarkroom.wordpress.com/ or different address?

That's the one, Georg.

 

[georg16nik]

It's obvious you tried your best in that 1 year and there are some pretty good posts.

You might wanna add “Photos”, “Photography” and some other tags, relevant to your posts; so that when someone browse wordpress.com by topics, your blog will get some traction. Some of the popular tags are listed here https://wordpress.com/tags/ but you can search for whats relevant to your writing and tag accordingly.
Why not “Film Photography”, “4x5”, “35mm”, “6x9”; etc...
The documentation on wordpress.com is good starting point https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/ and applies for self hosted wordpress installs or any similar software.

Perhaps, moving your blog as subdomain “http://blog.*.net/” or as “http://*.net/blog/” on your main site http://silverdarkroom.net/ will simplify your online adventures and you can list your recent blog post on your main site home page beside a few photos from your gallery and so on.

Parking a domain on wordpress.com and relying on their backend will give you trouble when you move to your own server, since most image paths will point to their previous, original urls “http://*.wp.com/silverdarkroom.net/*.*”

 

[fdi]

If someone is looking for a picture of a beautiful sunset with a lake in the foreground and a mountain in the background, they cant just imagine the scene and have google find it. They will have to type a description of what they are looking for. Although photography is about images, SEO is about text and blogs are a great place to put text. I am marketing picture frames for photo's as opposed to the actual photo's but our blog is a leading source of traffic to our website and help with our blog is a large part of the focus of a company that does professional SEO work for us.

 

[RobC]

If you have proper blog software in your site, then it will have built in RSS for other sites to take feeds from your site. If you regularly update that blog with text as has been suggested but also a photo on each blog post, then that gives some meaty content to encourage other sites to use your RSS feeds and that drives traffic to your site.

 

[ohnewton35]

Unlike some previous posts I definitely intend on starting a blog of my own soon. I keep up with two or three big blogs myself like that of Japan camera hunter and 35mmc which are both helpful and great reads

 

[Nathan King]

I use Wordpress software but am self-hosted for complete control. My readership is about zero, but it's more of a photographic journal for myself anyway.

 

[removed account4]

I use Wordpress software but am self-hosted for complete control. My readership is about zero, but it's more of a photographic journal for myself anyway.

i know exactly what you mean nathan i'm the same way ..
not too interested in having 400,000 subscribers to retweet what i say
more about someone emailing me out of the blue once in a while
asking me about APUG, how to coat glass plates, why i don't shoot wet plates,
what coffee i use, or about silver recovery stuff ...
when i look at the search phrases on my stats page i see there are a few people
besides russian / FSU robots ... and im not too worried about it ..

 

[Tamara]

I have a blog, because I'm a writer who snaps photographs and not a photographer who writes. Here's the category "pickcher takin'". My blog gets some traffic, but not a ton. I do it because it makes me happy.

 

[David Brown]

My readership is about zero, but it's more of a photographic journal for myself anyway.

Yes!

i know exactly what you mean nathan i'm the same way ..
not too interested in having 400,000 subscribers to retweet what i say...

I'm likewise not interested in moderating comments from hundreds or thousands of people.

I have a blog, ... I do it because it makes me happy.

Best reason yet!

Thanks for all the comments. Sorry I haven't been back to the thread in a couple of days. With no small bit of serendipity, I was considering shutting down the blog and the Facebook page. Yet, since I've posted this, there have been many more "likes" on the FB page, which drives traffic to the blog. I'll keep both for now. I have several posts "in the can" as it were (I tend to write in batches) so I'm good for a while. I'll also look into the SEO aspect. Really, social media and word of mouth seems to be the principle drivers, rather than Google. It's a brave new world!

 

[RobC]

1. Why do you want people to visit your website?
2. Why have you got a website?
3. Do you really need/want a website?
4. What is its purpose?
5. Does it exist only because you think you must have one because everyone else has got one?
6. Do you make photos to go on your wall or do you make photos to go on the web?
7. Why do you make photos to go on the web?
8. Why do you have photos on the web if you make them to go on your wall?

 

[Peltigera]

1. Why do you want people to visit your website?
2. Why have you got a website?
3. Do you really need/want a website?
4. What is its purpose?
5. Does it exist only because you think you must have one because everyone else has got one?
6. Do you make photos to go on your wall or do you make photos to go on the web?
7. Why do you make photos to go on the web?
8. Why do you have photos on the web if you make them to go on your wall?

I have a blog because communicating is a basic human activity and I get to communicate with people who share my interests - old cameras. I cannot do this in the flesh as I do not know any fleshy camera collectors.

I produce photographs because it pleases me. I produce both paper and virtual photographs and share them accordingly - one form of display does not preclude the other.

 

[removed account4]

i have a website and blog because i am a professional photographer
and it is my online calling card. ( and because it is fun )