On Mon, 05-30-05 8:24 pm
Since leaving Blogspot a couple of months ago - at the time it seemed like a really good idea - I have been virtually invisible to just about all the aggregators. At best, I am picked up once or twice a month by most or once a week - at most - by a few others.
Given the extremely limited audience I’m able to reach, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify the time I spend on most of my posts. I usually try to be careful with what I put up, especially when I’m dealing with Scripture or theology, and it requires no small amount of study. The time I spend studying is easily four times that spent writing.
I very much enjoy blogging but it comes down to a matter of stewardship: is this the best use of my time? The answer seems pretty obvious.
So I’m going to spend some time switching my template and seeing if I can’t get picked up once again by the aggregators. I actually paid someone to help me with it but even they were not able to figure it out. It doesn’t look promising. If the switch doesn’t help, I’m going to have to make a hard decision.
Posting is likely to continue to be sparse while I work on the site. Whenever I make a decision, I’ll post it here.
Thanks for bearing with me.
May 30th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
Mike, you’re doing some of the best writing in the blogosphere. Of course, you do have to prioritize. I would hope that even if you cut back on the frequency of your posting, if and when you do write something, you’d share it with us. Peace.
May 31st, 2005 at 10:23 am
No! I just got your link corrected in my blog roll and you’re one of my favorite bloggers. I’m sure the traffic from my site will at least amount to a few stragglers each year. Who knows what you could build with that! =)
May 31st, 2005 at 10:51 am
Thanks, Milton and Gad.
Right now I’m working on updating WordPress and seeing about transferring to a different hosting service. My first choice is to make this work, but it depends on finding a way to fix the RSS invisibility problem.
I’ve been a writer all my life (12-13 years professionally) and love to write. Being able to write about the Bible, Christian living, theology, etc., is way too much fun for me. But I’ve got to be able to rationalize it somehow!
I’m not going anywhere until I’m convinced that this problem cannot be fixed.
Thanks again for the encouragement.
June 1st, 2005 at 8:33 am
Brother Mike, you obviously have gone some form of insane. I enjoy reading your stuff, dude…don’t start looking to that dark possibility.
Anyway, I submited this:
http://eternalperspectives.com/wp-rss2.php
to feedburner and turned on only Smart Feed and basic stat scanning. This is the URL it generated for me (since I’m sure you’re using it too) http://feeds.feedburner.com/eternalperspectives/fsUR and when I put it in my aggregator it worked fine. Don’t know if that helps you.
http://server.com/WebApps/NewsApp/news-read.cgi?profile=5493
June 1st, 2005 at 9:28 am
Thanks, Rey. I’ll look into it.