Facibus On Blogging

How do you measure your success as a blogger?

…is it by personal satisfaction, knowing that your needs are met? That your sense of community has been satisfied?

…is it by Alexa or Technorati rank? Google PageRank? Number of RSS readers?

…is it by the number of comments or the number of pageviews?

…is it by the amount of money you make online?

…is it by your ranking in the Top 100 indexes for the country you live in?

My guess is that it all depends on why you blog. As long as you can match your measurement mechanism to your ‘why’, you will know how you are tracking.

There are qualitative ways (basically, how you feel about your blogging) and qualitative ways (basically, rankings and dollars and things that can be measured in absolute terms) of measuring success.

My advice is this: if you take the quantitative path (and have access to those ‘hard’ figures) don’t stress about numbers too early on in your path as a blogger. Obsessing over numbers will detract from the pleasure that you might gain and may even lead to you stopping altogether. Otherwise brilliant bloggers can be tempted to quit blogging because of low numbers.

Note: I’ve entered this post in Darren Rowse’s 31 Days group writing project.