I’m sitting here thinking about why I’m blogging WoW. Before October 2005, I had never heard the word blog. I don’t know how I managed that. I’m on the computer all the time. I’m a geek. I used to be a dork (I could do a whole post on the differences between geek and dork). When I discovered Blogspot.com, I couldn’t think of a darn thing to blog about. It basically came down to ‘What do I do every day?’ I ate, slept, worked, talked to K on the phone (or saw her), and played WoW. Out of those choices, I figured WoW had the potential for the most interest for others. It offered:
- contantly updated content
- content that at least 1 million people were surfing for
- little or no creativity at times (it happened)
- easy graphics (Print Screen)
- an instant community of geeks
- anonynimity
Within a month, my Blogspot site was showing up on Google with pretty good regularity. I’m currently #2. I’m #1 in Alexa. Readership is lacking, though. People are visiting and leaving right away. It is kind of sad to look at your stats and see 50 visits on a page and all but 3 of them are registering as 1 page and 0:00 time spent. That is when I decided it was time to really revamp things and make it at least look like people would want to stay and read. I used to have quite a few readers that have stopped. I don’t know why, but I hope it wasn’t my content or the look of the place.
I am a perfectionist at heart and I am always looking for ways to improve myself and the things around me. I suppose this blog is an outlet for my need to improve and control things. I even created two more Blogger.com blogs to have more outlets. I created an office humor/omg!/log and a more creative blog about my idiotic ideas about parenting. Those have virtually no content because they require creativity. I control the theme of the site. I control the words and photos I use. What I can’t control is you. The reader is in charge.
Now, I ask you, “What is it that you come here for?” My guesses have landed on the following things, but nothing has really happened to the readership. I am still getting Google hits and then they leave.
- guides
- tips
- links
- industry news
What I don’t want this blog to be is a link-fest to other WoW-related sites about releases, patches, and complex formulas for hardcore raiding tactics. What it also can’t be is a daily log of a raider going into the end-game instances like Gitr used to.
So…why ARE you here?
Your site sucks, Deadr. No one is commenting. Maybe you should just die. Oh, you are already dead. I forgot. Keep living for all I care. We are on different servers, so you can’t do anything to me. Sucka.
i read your blog cuz im at work and im bored. and reading about other people playing wow is the best i can do.
My previous blog was just dedicated to WOW & man it did become a little tedious for me. Sure I like writing blog entries about WOW but I’m interested in other stuff too & feel the need to write about them also. This of course makes it difficult to pigeon hole my blog into one area but surely the are no rules when it comes to blogging?
I come here because its a honest read, I admit I don’t read all of it…still looking over your past entries…but over time I’m sure I will.
I’ve been reading your site via RSS for a while now, not sure if that screw up your counter or not 😛 I just like hearing others thoughts on Warcraft as it’s my primary hobby at the moment. Probably the same reason I blog, just like to talk about WoW.
same as one of the guys above. I’m at work and bored. One thing that sucks in game but is really fun to read about… drama.
tell us about that annoying kid who keeps getting kicked from guilds.
tell us about that guildleader that just emptied the bank and jumped ship.
that ganker on the other faction geared like god and with an epeen to match