Are You Satisfied With Your Blog?

Most personal bloggers do not make a big fuss with their blogs.

However, those people who blog professionally will tinker with their blogs until they are satisfied with them.

Unfortunately, when it comes to blogging, satisfaction is not always guaranteed.

One Of The First Things That We Bloggers Do Is Search For A Theme

I remembered when I first started, I spent more than a half-hour looking at WordPress themes; I wanted an aesthetically pleasing theme.

The WordPress themes used to be lovely-looking years ago.

Today, you use an ugly-looking free one, or you purchase an okay-looking one.

Where the themes are concerned, those on the paid WordPress plans are granted full access to countless themes.

Those of us who are on the Free WordPress plan have no choice but to settle for the dregs — the ugly-looking, substandard themes (It is as though Automattic sees those bloggers on the Free WordPress plan as digital pariahs).

Personal bloggers would choose the least ugly-looking theme, customize it as best as they could, and begin blogging.

Regarding WordPress themes, I highly doubt that the bloggers on WordPress.com are one hundred percent satisfied with them.

Some Of Us Are Not Pleased With The Content That We Produce

Some of us are natural-born writers; others are not; the same things apply to those bloggers whose blogs are based on:

• Photography
• Cooking
• Arts and Crafts

The good news is that almost everyone is trying their best.

And, those who are extremely well-skilled at what they do are always finding fault with their own work; it is as though their own work is never good enough for them.

Perfectionists will work on their blog posts until they reach the level of standard that they desire.

The content that fails to pass their self-imposed quality control test is either deleted or relegated to a draft.

Those bloggers who blog merely for the fun of it, seldom think twice about what they published (They want to share their creations [whether they are perfect or not] with the rest of their WordPress community).

Some Of Us Use Likes And Comments To Gauge How Well Our Blog Is Doing

First of all, it is absolutely insane to use likes and comments to gauge how well our blog is doing.

Why?

Because likes and comments are not true indicators of our blog’s success.

You and I both know that there are a handful of bloggers who press the Like button on our posts without ever reading them.

Plus, on more than one occasion, I have come across well-written blog posts from others with no likes or comments.

And, I have seen sloppily-written blog posts with tons of likes and comments.

Unfortunately, there are bloggers who would give up on blogging if their blog received very little or no interaction from others.

I will admit that it is lovely to have people interacting with your blog on a regular basis.

However, likes and comments are not everything.

By the way, if your blog is fairly new, you are not going to get as many likes and comments as the blogger who has been around for two years.

Also, a truly satisfied blogger publishes the type of content that they are satisfied with; it must get their proverbial stamp of approval first; a lack of likes or comments will not make them feel bad about their work.

Final Thoughts

Most of us are never truly satisfied with our blog because we know that there is always room for improvement.

Now, that does not mean that we are unable to experience a high level of satisfaction with our blog; for example, we can settle for an eighty-five percent satisfaction level or higher.

Thanks to our human nature, we will always find some aspect of blogging to complain about.

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