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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/9036
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In my experience there are two main types of blogs out there, topic-focused and person-focused. You're describing the latter.

Person-focused blogs, which cover a range of topics and styles with the unifying theme of "interesting enough for the blog author to want to write about", seem to attract a smaller audience unless you're famous. That's ok; not everybody is trying to hit the big leagues. Your followers will be some combination of people who know you and people whose areas of interest overlap with yours enough that they're willing to skip past the stuff they're not interested in.

A key tool for increasing the size of the latter group is _tags_. I read a bunch of this type of blog, and if the tagging tells me up front that this post is about World of Warcraft or Python or Dancing With the Stars, I know to just skip it. Blogs that don't use tags (and/or good subject lines) have to have a higher density of interesting posts for me to read. Put another way: what are you asking people to wade through to get to the good stuff, when everyone's definition of "the good stuff" is different? Make it easy and you'll more-easily attract casual readers.

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