Working at Home on the Internet

When the Reality of Linking Too Much Hits Home

I was going over my statistics over the weekend and noticed I started losing RSS and e-mail Subscribers recently. I have Text Link Ads in my sidebar, they allow eight (8) ad links and I had maxed out until recently. Now I’m down to Five. I had Hundreds of visits and pageviews per day, now they’re in the 2 digit realm. Everything was going really well on the Blogging Front for over two years, increasing all along the way, then…

 PLOP!

I couldn’t figure it out. I was getting busier in my consulting business as a result of what I was doing here. Writing, saying and sharing my experiences while Working at Home on the Internet. Anything that could be useful to others trying to run a Home Business was on the agenda. So, why were things starting to take a such a drastic down turn?

I was going through some of the links that I was getting and checked out all the Blogs that were linking here and came across something by J.T.Dabbagian with a list of 5 Websites for Being Productive and I quote:

Working at Home on the Internet - Another Web-Worker based website that seems to act more like a hub for productivity on the net. Its main feature is its Blog Carnivals, which are links to even more cool stuff. It seems, however, to be more of a linking blog then an site with real original content, but you should check out The Blog vs Website writing project to get something if you win. (Emphasis mine)

Now, I Really do appreciate the link and the Plug for the Blog vs Website contest, but it still hit me like a ton of bricks. Did you notice the “however” part?

With almost 1100 posts, 95% of which are original content and the remaining 5% being Carnivals and Weekly Helpful Reads, I could almost feel forgotten or worse, unread. Providing Work at Homers with helpful information has always been my objective, but it seems I haven’t been doing my job of late. At least not giving my readers enough original content of my own and giving them different and new ideas to try to enhance their Work at Home Business through experiences I have faced.

So, what does this tell us (me)?

1. The old adage of “Content is King” is just as valid, if not more, than ever.
2. Link Blogs don’t get (nor do they deserve) the respect that they crave.
3. Blogs that don’t provide Real Value to their readers with originality and good content won’t last.

Being busy with the Consulting part of the business is no excuse. There are plenty of other people out there who are far busier than I and still find time to write for their readers, because it’s important to them and their community.

I am going to strive to be more on the ball and provide all of you with interesting and informative information. I will still use links, but I hope to provide you with more of my own successful and even failing endeavours so that we can learn together what it takes be a Successful Work at Homer.

Joe

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July 7th, 2008 at 06:28am | Posted by Joe | Basics, Community, Linking | 3 reader remarks | Print This Post