In some ways, I'm starting over with this blog. After I stopped covering politics, a few loyal fans stuck around. For the most part, however, I’m reinventing myself and the readership is shifting.
Many people started reading my blog because of the way I covered political and “controversial” topics. Since I’m phasing out those topics, it makes sense that some of those readers are phasing out LBC. But it doesn’t feel scary. I’m treading new-to-me territory, and it feels like a fresh start. I feel re freshed.
When I first started blogging, I followed veteran bloggers’ advice: comment on and trackback to other blogs, send post links to established, like-minded bloggers, etc. I did all that. I even visited small blogs - really small blogs - and commented on those sites. This consequently led the bloggers to blogroll me, and things picked up from there.
Should I do the same with digital music blogging? Later, perhaps. LBC, with four years worth of backlinks and indexed pages, has got enough Google juice to show up high in search results under certain digital music terms. That’s good enough for now. I’ve returned to my roots, in a way. Blogging for the pure pleasure of it and being genuinely surprised that people are reading the blog at all. It’s still amazing after all these years. 
In the meantime, I’m taking notes and journaling my somewhat dramatic shift in tone and recording the hits and misses. The plan is to turn the notes into an instructional (and inspirational?) essay for established bloggers longing to do the same.
Many blessings to you!
(Clip art from EternalChristmas.com)
