I know 2 posts in a day is an overdose. But this is not really a post. Its a promotional campaign. Hit my blog as many times as possible. I got a moral booster. And may be that will get the best out of me some day. Right now all that's coming out of me is cough (eeeeeeeeeeewwww!!!)
This is a topic I have been thinking over for some time. It is disheartening to see that breaking rule is becoming a norm across our country. As per a recent news article that is what even the government is observing. We dont need anybody's statement to testify this as we see it all around us. This post is an attempt at understanding why the law of the land is broken? Let us first try to understand why laws or rules are brought into place. A rule is an attempt to make the playing field level. It identifies a set of criteria based on which decisions will be taken in a system. Forming a queue is the simplest form of rule. It identifies first come first serve basis for serving a person, no parking zones are meant to be kept free for free traffic flow so on an so forth. Becauase rules are more like cartels . The member who deviates has an incentive to do so than what he would achieve by staying in the cartel. There are certain market conditions in which cartels work. I will not get in...
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You got this one right - hit counters tell you when the readership is waning and thus when you need to effect a "change" - as in - write a new post :P .. or liven up the blog somehow.
Other things that helped me increase my readership were to keep exploring new blogs every once in a while; even post comments on those blogs - as a result, that person vists ur blog. In many cases he/she may like ur blog and recommend it to his/her regular readers!!
A corollary of the above is that exploring blogs of people you dont know increases ur readership to a greater extent than exploring blogs of people known to you. Reason? Regular readers of a friend's blogs may be regular readers of your blogs too.
And finally, as I found out the hard way :-(, one more essential task to increase readership (even retain readership) is to respond to comments on old posts. If you dont read and respond to readers' comments, that reader is less likely to return.
Anyways cheers to ur morale-boosted blogging (whatever on earth that is :p)