Just a warning, this post does ramble abit, but trust me, read along and you’ll see I tie it all together at the end

Sometimes, while working on articles that take more time than I have on some days, I worry about not writing a quick post.  I worry because right now, Desty Online’s traffic and RSS subscribers are at an all time high.  We’re riding a wave of momentum and I just want that wave to keep building and building.  Of course, nothing lasts forever.  Some readers will get bored and unsubscribe.  It’s oh so temping to just sit down in front of the computer and type out a quick post.

Then I sit back and think long term.

What type of rep do I want Desty Online to have?  Do I want to be thought of as a blog that has articles everyday, most of them good, but some are just filler?  Or, and this is the one I want, do I want the rep where there might be a day without an article, but when that next day pops up and that article hits the Net, it was well worth the wait!

For those new readers, I do have a day job as a transportation dispatcher for a small company who’s a tier 1 logistics provider for the automobile makers in the United States.  I focus on dealing with Toyota, but I do have 4 routes per day for General Motors.  As such I am right in the middle of the UAW strike.  I have to keep these 4 guys busy with actual work where they can support their families, make that work be actual profitable work for my company, and still be in a position to support GM should the strike end.  Translation, I worry all day long about the next day and what could happen.

It leads to a rather stressful day to say the least.  Normally through the day I’m able to jot down some ideas, write a few paragraphs for articles, etc during breaks.  Today all I wanted to do was sit back and relax while I could.  Got home, played with the boys, talked with my wife about how I hadn’t written anything all day and hadn’t even thought of anything to write about.  I’m in the middle of my series on how to make money online from your dorm room (thought I’d forgotten about that hadn’t you!) but those articles are rather labor intensive and I don’t want to just slap them together.

So after the boys are in bed, I log in to check comments.  I still have a great comment from Alan on my EarnByLoaning review; my head isn’t into investments right now, and since his comment was so excellent, it deserves my full attention.  Anyway, after checking for new comments, I always check the anti-spam filter to see if anything got caught that shouldn’t.  Out of 11 potential spam comments, 1 comment was a gem.  It was made on my post about reestablishing my DoFollow plugin.  SEO Expert had a simple comment / question:

it shoked me . why you make it dofollow

It made me think.  Why did I turn my DoFollow plugin off back in early August?  My original reason was to help boost any possible PR increase by stemming the flow of “link juice” from my blog.  What made me come back and turn the plugin back on was my original reason for starting it in the first place.  PR  is cool; it helps determine your “rankings” in online money making opportunities such as Text-Link-Ads, PayPerPost, and others.  PR wasn’t my original aim for Desty Online; my original goal was to document my journey online in building a business, along with discussing business and investing in general.  This requires an audience, not for ego or acceptance, but to have a dialogue, a conversation if you will. 

DoFollow is known for having people search for your blog, just to write a comment to get some of that “link juice.”  My hope was, since I’m rather strick on my comment moderation, that people would actually have to read the articles to get their comments live.  In reading the articles, if I did my job right, they would like the articles, and come back for more articles, hopefully subscribing to my RSS feed.  My idea with turning on DoFollow was to turn opportunistic spammers into readers, and to reward commentators.

Is that a good enough reason?  Don’t know, but it works for me!

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