Comments on: I’ll never stay to say happy anniversary

By: Gavin Robinson

Gavin Robinson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:42:00 +0000

That sounds scary! There’s a mailform here.

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:08:23 +0000

How do I contact the author of this blog ? (I prefer this isn’t published !)

By: Gary Smailes

Gary Smailes — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:41:26 +0000

I have been blogging for a similar period of time and with similar bursts of enthusiasm. I have learned a lot over the past year or so. Here’s a couple of things that have struck me:

1. It is better to post regularly with good solid writing, than break your back trying to blog rubbish every day,

2. The number of readers doesn’t matter as long as you are being read by your target audience, this is especially true for a history blog,

3. Commenting is king, if you read a good blog then leave a comment,

4. Never underestimate the power of the blog. You never know who is reading!

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:05:48 +0000

Congrats on making it to a year!

I wouldn’t worry too much about Technorati rankings. I noticed that a few weeks after I posted those ranks, they all dropped by several tens of thousands of places. Mine went down 30000 or so, though it’s recovered a bit since the carnival went up. Technorati either adjusted their algorithm or had a huge influx of new highly-ranked blogs (quite possibly splogs too: they seem to link to each other to improve their TR).

I was also wondering about the lack of ACW submissions. I didn’t really twig to it until too late or else I would have looked a bit harder for some more. Of course, there weren’t a lot of submissions total so that may not mean anything much. But I wonder if the majority of ACW bloggers just aren’t interested in military history generally, in the same way many Wagner fans aren’t interested in any other operas?