I think for as long as you have something that shows you your traffic, traffic will become a driving force. It’s a beast. I wish you weren’t stuck with it, but the fact of the matter is it comes to be important from really quite early in.

And, yes, if you’re lucky enough to have a bunch of real friends who also want to blog, I think that would be a great way to encourage each other to stay motivated, and learn together…

The only tip I can offer is to blog with friends. I started to blog with a handful of friends and we’ve all been learning together. We can ask each other stupid questions, learn from each other’s mistakes, and support each other behind the scenes and through comments and links. It’s been invaluable for me.

I wish I’d read one like that too! I’m thinking of a new post of all the errors I know now I’ve made with the tech side, because that’s becoming painfully clear to me now.

Yes, I think list posts do get a lot of traffic and shares. Which is slightly irritating, as I rather like to read wibbles. Another good tip is to break content up a bit with header fonts, so rants feel a bit more organised for the social media fan… And, yeah, write about blogging. Which I swore I’d never do.

I can add another tip, which again I dont seem to be able to follow, to write posts like this one and the “10 things about….” “Top 20 mistakes…”. Apparently they are very good for traffic from google and for social media sharing.

You have done great. Keep it up.

He has his own blog — actually two, one from when he was nine and one now. The current one is http://www.smartass300.wordpress.com, and the old one is http://www.9yearold.wordpress.com. Do stop by and see him. And, yes, I’m going to request a guest post from him…

Has your son ever written a post for you? If not, that would be fun to read!

I don’t know Alist! Will have to check it out… And, yes, when I can take my head out of my navel, I do try to help…