Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 3:42:18 GMT
When I write a post, I always wonder how it will end: will it be successful? And what does it mean to be successful when you write a post? Will he receive comments? If yes, how many? For me, by my yardstick, a post is good when it gets, including my replies, at least 30 comments . Below that means it wasn't appreciated enough. This is not a universal law, let's be clear. It's just my law. We cannot know how much an article is really appreciated, because there is a phantom audience, those readers who read but do not comment, who perhaps appreciate the post, but leave no trace of themselves. How to understand reader satisfaction? When I wrote the article on how to write a tagline for a book , I expected a huge success, an avalanche of comments, but instead there were only 25, so the post, as far as I'm concerned, didn't go well. When I wrote the article on writing instruments , I expected absolute silence, a lukewarm reception, but instead it got 81 comments, so it was a success.
This situation has happened before, so I should expect it, but instead I keep hoping that the posts that take me longer will be more appreciated. I'm tough, I know. Technical content and trivial content Last month Riccardo Esposito talked about the potential success of banal content in blogs . Maybe people are tired of technical articles? Maybe you love personal stories Special Datamore ? The example I gave before demonstrates this: the post on how to write, whether by hand or on the computer, is a personal story of mine and it was successful. Ditto for the post on being or feeling like a writer, which totaled over 60 comments. Isn't the interview on the publishing contract a useful post? Of course it is, but it only had 15 comments, compared to almost 60 on the post on the identikit of the perfect writer, a banal article, and almost 70 on the one on the writer who must know how to write everything. There is perhaps an answer in the few comments on technical posts: perhaps they do not generate responses, perhaps that is not their purpose.
They teach something, but something that perhaps shouldn't be commented on, that doesn't generate discussion. How to measure reader satisfaction? Don't tell me about the number of shares on social media . Those numbers say absolutely nothing, also because they can be distorted. Here on Penna Blu I could choose whether to put the social buttons as they are now or the classic ones with numbers. I chose this solution (they are not real buttons, but fonts) because I want a post to be shared if it is deemed shareable and not because it is perceived as valid by a number. Not even the number of visits and readings means satisfaction, because that number includes my visits and my readings (every time I open the post, the number clicks) and also those of search engines and spammers. How to measure reader satisfaction after reading a post? I don't think there is a single way to measure it. I measure it by the number of comments one of my posts generates. For me, an article satisfies readers if it creates discussion and debate. The post on writing tools had two new readers (or in any case they commented for the first time) and this for me is another sign of satisfaction: the post prompted those who had never done so to comment.
This situation has happened before, so I should expect it, but instead I keep hoping that the posts that take me longer will be more appreciated. I'm tough, I know. Technical content and trivial content Last month Riccardo Esposito talked about the potential success of banal content in blogs . Maybe people are tired of technical articles? Maybe you love personal stories Special Datamore ? The example I gave before demonstrates this: the post on how to write, whether by hand or on the computer, is a personal story of mine and it was successful. Ditto for the post on being or feeling like a writer, which totaled over 60 comments. Isn't the interview on the publishing contract a useful post? Of course it is, but it only had 15 comments, compared to almost 60 on the post on the identikit of the perfect writer, a banal article, and almost 70 on the one on the writer who must know how to write everything. There is perhaps an answer in the few comments on technical posts: perhaps they do not generate responses, perhaps that is not their purpose.
They teach something, but something that perhaps shouldn't be commented on, that doesn't generate discussion. How to measure reader satisfaction? Don't tell me about the number of shares on social media . Those numbers say absolutely nothing, also because they can be distorted. Here on Penna Blu I could choose whether to put the social buttons as they are now or the classic ones with numbers. I chose this solution (they are not real buttons, but fonts) because I want a post to be shared if it is deemed shareable and not because it is perceived as valid by a number. Not even the number of visits and readings means satisfaction, because that number includes my visits and my readings (every time I open the post, the number clicks) and also those of search engines and spammers. How to measure reader satisfaction after reading a post? I don't think there is a single way to measure it. I measure it by the number of comments one of my posts generates. For me, an article satisfies readers if it creates discussion and debate. The post on writing tools had two new readers (or in any case they commented for the first time) and this for me is another sign of satisfaction: the post prompted those who had never done so to comment.