What is the best thing about running a blog with little traffic?

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Picture Credit : Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

This blog doesn’t get a great deal of traffic at this time, and giving away the exact numbers will cause me a great deal of embarrassment. But if I spent more time blogging rather than tinkering with the design, looking for appropriate affiliate ads and experimenting with WordPress plugins, the visitor numbers could actually increase to something worth writing about.

Getting a small number of visitors does have one plus point – I don’t get many comments to deal with. I read a blog post a few days ago that talked about hiring someone just to handle comment spam. If only.

Most of the comments made here end up in the spam folder, and rightly so. They are just that; spam. It is not the Akismet plugin getting it wrong, it is the Akismet plugin getting it bang on. Most of the comments are along the lines of “great post, I have added your feed to my reader” and come from an email address which ends dot ru. A sure sign that the comment has been automated and the commentator has not really read my post and hasn’t added my feed to their reader. Perhaps these people are using Blog Comment Demon, which I wrote about a few days ago.

There are currently 18 spam comments waiting to be deleted, but before I do that I thought I would share some of them with you. If I were having to deal with hundreds of these every day I would not be a happy bunny.

I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!

Good article, lots of intersting things to digest. Very informative

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Really nice posts. I will be checking back here regularly.

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Thank you for another great post.
I look forward to many more entries with high quality info.

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Read with great interest, very interesting story. Begin to remember, I still started.

Hello, nice post. I just found your blog and I’m already a fan. :P

A couple of the commentators clearly have a sense of humour, but I am afraid their comments have not made it past the gatekeeper.