What Style of Blogger Are You?

In the past 2 weeks I’ve been reading article after article about how to drive traffic to a blog. From these tips, I’ve tried and tried different methods and for some reason, none seem to work that well.

I still average about 50 unique visitors a day and this is only with the help of Project Petaling Street, a Malaysian blog ping service. Without it, I’d be lucky to get even half that amount of visitors.

Random cartoon 1. (www.jasonlove.com)

What I’ve figured out is that my style of blogging is quite random at times and this may be the reason that my audience is pretty random as well… sometimes I’d write about a funny situation (Resigning from your job), then I’d write about something serious (How to write a business plan), then something personal (who is Xanydude?) and at other times it’s complete and utter crap (How to win the lottery).

Random cartoon 2. (www.jasonlove.com)

A recent article I read on Blog Style and Traffic Stats actually said there are 7 different styles of blogs. (I’m not going to list them all here so click on the link and read them yourself). But to me, there are 3 types of blogs.

1. Personal blogs: Or life documentaries on your day to day activities. Blogging about going to the shopping mall and buying a nice pair of shoes has made some bloggers really really successful, so don’t laugh (Dawn Yang’s Blog). It also doesn’t hurt if you’re a good looking girl.. even if you’ve had tonnes of plastic surgery. Kenny Sia deserves a good mention as well.
2. Topic specific blogs: These types of blogs write about a very specific subject matter, such as politics (Jeff Ooi’s Blog), tech gadgets (Gizmodo.com) and even tips on how to blog.
3. Something in between: These blogs try to mix the above 2 points into a coherent blog, sometimes documenting interesting information about the writer’s life and then sometimes giving useful information about their niche topic. I thought my blog fell into this category, but I realized I created a new category instead, the 4th blog style.
4. Randomness: This is when you write about events backwards and forwards in time, sometimes giving random posts about random events and sometimes trying to write stuff about your specific topic. I don’t think I want to stay in this category anymore.

So what I’ve come to realize is that I need to refine my writing style. To do this, I’ve decided to write in a style which is a bit closer to a ‘topic specific blog’ with a little bit of my life and laughs thrown in between. This being, ‘How To Start A Business In Malaysia‘ providing as many useful tips and resources as I am able to.

Random cartoon 3. (www.jasonlove.com)

Hopefully, this takes out the randomness from my writing style.

In the end, maybe I’m just a random person and that style is my own. Who knows?

“The stars outside my house taste like sea cheese.”

Now THAT’S random.