Have you ever felt like the most boring person on Earth? I have. I do, in fact. Before Thanksgiving, I had a halfway decent RealRank and an increasing number of visitors. Then, like an idiot, I deleted the title tag. Google, of course, came behind me and reindexed half of my posts or more with the title of my blog pretty much overnight. Consequently, my visitors dropped. My RealRank plummeted (or went up actually, which is bad in the RealRank world) by several thousand points. My subscribers disappeared.Before Christmas, I realized my mistake and fixed the title tags. I resubmitted my sites to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and SubmitExpress. I waited for Google to recrawl the posts. It has recrawled some, but not enough because my RealRank has only improved by a few points. My subscribers came back, but my visitors have not.
So my question is this: is it Google's fault or my own? Are people just not clicking on my posts in Google search results because some still look a little funky, or am I just the most boring person on earth? I'm scared the answer is the latter. I'm not a mommy blogger so I don't have that built-in audience. I guess you could call me a dog-mommy blogger or an aunty blogger, but I doubt that there are really any blogging communities out there like that. I don't have a vast knowledge of technology, so I can't tell you how to fix this or that on your computer unless I've already learned how to fix this or that on my own. Then I'm only repeating what I have learned on someone else's blog or forum. I watch a lot of TV, but I don't have any inside sources at the studios so I doubt anyone cares whether I liked this week's episode of something or not. I don't have a great job. Heck, I don't even have a bad job. Thanks to the continuous rejection letters that I keep getting from the legal community, I don't even have the desire to write post after post about current legal issues, the one thing other than TV that I might have some knowledge or opinion about.
Basically, the only niche that I have these days is me, and I right now me seems incredibly boring. So add that to the Cyber Heathers' insults, and I'm blunt, stiff, and boring. Wow, I'm a real blogging catch. I guess that's why I'm nearly 33 and have never been married. I wouldn't want to talk to me every day either.
Okay, getting off that pity train, what do I do to change my situation? How do I suddenly become interesting? Do I do what my sister did, which is open a MySpace account and fill my page full of pics that show me drinking, smoking, and shooting birds at the camera? Yeah, I try not to imitate my sister, so I'll skip that route. How about I act like a drunk cheerleader like the Cyber Heathers wanted me to do? Nah, my acting skills aren't that great. I could get a life. No, wait, that tends to cost money, and I'm fresh out. I could write a fan fic and get my readers to read my blog. Wait, I did that already, and they're not. They're too busy telling me to make Sara and Grissom happy.
I guess that means that I'll have to settle for doing some heavy-duty blog networking over the next few days on MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. Maybe I could find some other bloggers just as boring as me and form a Boring Blogger Community. How does Boring Bloggers Unite sound? Or I could just take a Midol and hope I find myself more interesting tomorrow.
