This is a tree-in-the-forest thing. Clever huh? Ok....but my question is still the same. We see posts run through the AR blog roll and sometimes by the time I come back to read one, it's already gone. Did anyone catch it in time? Was it read? Did it matter?

I have written posts with very few clicks (in the Statistics) and no comments. Shocking, I know...but true. They are often hyper-local ones, but sometimes they were just boring. As they head out to the blogosphere I wonder if there is any impact at all from having written them.

What might have made them more relevent? Better title? Different angle? Sharper Insight? Or maybe the point was a couple of points and writing practice. And that's ok too....

 

 

 

 

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23 Comments on If An Active Rain Post Is Written.....And Nobody Reads It....Did It Make An Impact?

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DEC
18
2010
227,388 Points 7 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Surprisingly, I am still getting calls on my hyper local posts that I have written over a year ago! I just got a phone call the other day on a program for exchanging old Christmas lights with the new LED lights. You never know where the next phone call will come from! Keep writing!
2:20pm • #4
1,980,643 Points 484 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Not to worry. 

GOOGLE knows!
2:34pm • #5
885,525 Points 178 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

I wrote about this same issue a long time ago.  For a while I thought any post without comments didn't matter.  However, I've noticed that a lot of hyperlocal posts with links to local events, businesses, etc get no comments but a very high view/read rate.  So yes, even if it goes off the blog roll, it's still important.
2:37pm • #6
486,713 Points 59 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

There's a lot of silly stuff here that get hundreds of comments, yet I doubt they have much impact at all. I wouldn't assume the two go hand in hand.
2:46pm • #7
1,542,928 Points 116 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Just because folks aren't commenting doesn't mean they are reading the posts.  I met a buyer last fall and when we first met she told me about all the posts I'm written that she'd read.  Mind you, she never commented and I never knew she was there.
3:00pm • #8
1,143,803 Points 124 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Karen we all have post that are kind of just out there - but better that then not at all.  Like Chris Ann I've had people tell me they read my stuff and/or I'll get calls about a hyper local post (almost 4 or 5 a week now) So all we're creating does make a difference!
3:43pm • #9
504,813 Points 22 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Does make you wonder sometimes - but I think often the impact is happening, even when we don't know it (or not to way after the fact).  But I do agree that sometimes the ones I think will have impact just don't and vice versa - sometimes even timing matters...
3:54pm • #10
858,961 Points 184 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Hi all....I do think the hyper-local make a difference, and as Lenn said "Google knows" . And that's fine with me....
4:03pm • #11
596,296 Points 70 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Karen - I too have a few hyper-local posts that don't have any comments on them.  I stopped worrrying a long time ago about whether or not the AR community comments on any of my posts.  I learned a long time ago that most consumers don't comment on the posts that they read.  However, what they will do is pick up the phone and call me or send me an email. 

For me, calls/emails from a consumer and/or prospect lets me know that my post made the impact I expecting, comments or no comments.  JMHO
4:09pm • #12
925,953 Points 185 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Lenn, beat me to it---but it is true---Google misses nothing and remembers everything----so whether it is 10 minutes or 10 years---it is still of value.
4:36pm • #13
394,213 Points 30 Featured Posts Outside Blog Hit Router Called Shot Master

Ditto what everyone else said...I think Charles put it best - "Google misses nothing!"
4:48pm • #14
166,409 Points 4 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

I hope Lenn is right and GOOGLE knows!!!
5:23pm • #15
222,210 Points Outside Blog

I was just thinking the same thing.  But it seems that some wiser people than I say Google knows, so keep at it.
10:19pm • #16
789,895 Points 112 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Well, it doesn't look like this one was missed by the blog rolls.
10:23pm • #17
DEC
19
2010
556,987 Points 122 Featured Posts Called Shot Master

Karen:  When I wrote my first AR post, no one came to visit.  It was certainly disheartening but now, a couple of years later, when I go back to that same post I see that almost 1,000 people have read it.  It was an early attempt, not my best work but it is still being seen. 

When the tree falls there is a ripple effect that may not be felt for a long long time. 
7:35am • #18
886,766 Points 227 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

you have written posts with very few clicks??  now THAT's amazing.
5:28pm • #19
542,014 Points 17 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

I don't get a lot of comments on my "hyper local" posts, but they are where most of my business comes from. And honestly, that's the main reason I am on AR, business.
7:02pm • #20
515,229 Points 26 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master
I started to get a little bummed out that no one's reading my awesome 31 Days of December Challenge blogs. (just kidding, they're probably boring as watching paint dry) But then I started thinking, and reading, and figure that the more that goes out there, the better we are in Google's eyes. Like Lenn said.
7:58pm • #21
430,740 Points 23 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

I was going to say the same thing - Google reads them.  Plus, it is all good practice, right? 
8:45pm • #22
DEC
23
2010
452,863 Points 11 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

If nothing else, it's good practice and some of the one's I think noone has read get alot of click thru's. 
9:06pm • #23

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