I have done the 31 Days challenge as well. Some good stuff there.

I subscribe to a handful of blogs that I read every day; I visit others from time to time. Most folks won’t devote 6 minutes to a blog — in reality, it’s more like 30 seconds. When you plan your blog posts, I suggest thinking in terms of what a 30-second skimmer wants. It’s a sad-but-true fact about blogging: readers have short attention spans, and they’re fickle.

I completely agree that most of us bloggers have no intention of getting rich blogging. We constantly hear about the “big” bloggers who have made millions blogging, and we tend to put these folks on pedestals as examples of what we should be doing with our own blogs. In a way, it’s like idolizing a movie star or other celeb and trying to emulate them. Their stardom isn’t likely to rub off on us.

While there’s nothing wrong with setting big goals for yourself (particularly if striking it rich via blogging is your goal), for the vast majority of bloggers, it’s all about developing community within our niche. It sounds as if you have a good handle on how to grow your blog, Vizionheiry — keep on doing what you’re doing!

I like the dip in and dip out blog posting method.

I’m a new (consistent) blogger and already I subscribe to 10 blogs. Divide that by an hour and that’s 6 minutes a blog. So I try to offer readers bites of content that they can use in less than 6 minutes.

Really, should people spend more than that an hour a day reading blogs? Most of us are not trying to get rich blogging. We’re blogging to develop a community around our niche content, a home on the web.

But I do get weary of the constant bombardment of lists of hundreds of things I need to do to get more traffic. I could spend my entire life doing those things, and I care more about having a life, if you get my drift.

For me, it all boils down to doing a few things well — and doing them well consistently. I often fail in the consistency department, but they’re good goals to shoot for.

Besides, at my age, I can’t remember more than three things at a time!

Also, #2 is killer info. I too ignore bloggers pitching to me.

When you walk into small businesses, they don’t bombard you with products, you can look around. Likewise, a reader should be able to peruse a blog without having a product shoved into their thoughts!