Do you really know your readers that well? Do you think they care about you? Well think again. The only reason a reader is going to stay at your site is to gain some knowledge.
Reality of social media is such. It’s a materialistic world and you get nothing if you do not give something. That’s basically a social media ethic. I would like to just point out a couple of things on photoblog’s and personal blogs.
This article is intended for people who would like to increase their readership. If you are happy by just doing what you are doing currently, that’s fine. This is a suggestion for those who needs it.
How is a blog different from a Photoblog?
The truth is, there is no difference. You are just mixing two things. A gallery and a blog merged, a photoblog is born. A blog is generally made up of a post that contains text, pictures or videos. Why do you want to do that, when you have social media tools such as Flickr? Flickr is a social tool for you to share moment’s of life with friends and the general public. You even have options to tag it or even receive comments.
What would a general blog reader feel?
A general blog reader like me for instance, would not want to just see your life on your blog all the time. Over a period, I might get completely fed-up. Well, if it was a super star, then it is a different case. I would expect some great value on your blog that you could provide me. Pictures may inspire, but how long? I rather follow your flickr streams or your posterity streams to view your recent shots.
A purpose of a blog is to make it your base. Drive people back and front to it. If you were to publish your life streams, we have Flickr, twitter, plurk, pownce…. endless. Send readers to those media streams and let the crowd of those streams find their way to your blog. Applies the same for returning crowds that you sent.
A blog is also your marketing tool. Of what you really are. Do not mess it up by stuffing up the “wrong things at the wrong place”. Did I make sense? Highlighting from time to time about your self, something really personal that you would like to share or grabbing a picture out of your flickr stream and to tell a story about it is all fine. You could do this 1 out of 10 post. It would even give a nice twist of lemon on your tea. But the idea of converting a blog completely into an image gallery, freaks me out. If you are being different on your images it’s okay. What I really would freak out would be, pictures of just your daily routine. A complete Flickr on a Blog.
So what should a photoblog have?

A real photoblog would be, a blog’s plot that is driven by photo’s. Something related to a specific profession as your posterity. I would like to stress again, that I’m only saying it’s wrong to mix personal photo’s on a photoblog. A photoblog has a niche. Just like any other regular blog. You could be a skilled skyscraper photographer. You may want to publish your work as posterity. Now that’s what we call a photoblog. I hope you could now differentiate a real photoblog then a “personal photo photoblog”
The real important issue for personal bloggers?…
Well the point I’m stretching is that people want a value in reading materials. Something they could ponder at. When we post a personal related post, try to at least provide a simple value to the reader. Content that would open eyes. That’s what we need. Opinions that matters. Some would say that no one care’s about our opinions, but it actually does if it’s eye opening. Are you conveying a hidden truth? Are you providing an extra tip ? This are questions to be asked when you give an opinion or simply write about your self. Do not brag about your self on what you know or what you do!
Well I hope I made you to ponder or at least made some sense. You do not have to be formal on what you do. Blog on things that you know you can. Do not fake out things you don’t know or not to sure about. To be honest, I do write about my self at random but a rule I practice is to have a lesson in it or something to ponder at.
Now, if you were really into photoblogging or videoblogging and hence you have some really good skills, Do come back soon as I would share some tips on growing your photoblog’s and videoblog’s authority. There is also another rule on the social web. “New Things Live”. Let’s see what we could actually try. The Aim is to keep things personal as you wish but to retain a value/knowledge on it while keeping readers on your mind.
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