It’s an interesting question to ask yourself, and one that may not have occurred to you in the first flush of blogging, but just how popular do you want your blog to become?

The Ups 

Filled with the excitement of a new blog, you post every day, check your stats on an hourly basis, visit every blog in the world to leave comments and promote at every turn. There are directories to sign up to, Social Media sites to register and interact with, comments to respond to, hey you even tell people in the ‘real world’ what your blog address is! ;-)

But how big do you want to be?

The Downs 

Have you had days when the post (or posts) just won’t come? When logging on and responding to comments feels like a chore? Did you write something, and then read it back a day or two later and cringe at just how poor it was? Do you sometimes have days where you just feel like quitting?

Whilst I am genuinely pleased to see each and every visitor & comment here, my traffic is very much of the ‘3 men and a dog’ level (and if you’re the dog: bark, woof, bark-growl) and yet some days I have all of the above feelings.

So what if you just don’t feel like it today, but you have 200,000 daily visitors to disappoint? If your latest post is being discussed in forums with the tagline ‘Has X lost it?’. Emails flood in daily asking you questions you’ve heard a thousand times already, and your comment moderation list is 3 figures long. Could you handle it?

The Question 

One person who can, and does is Steve Pavlina and his Confessions of an A-list blogger makes for very interesting reading. Here’s a man with 2 million visitors a month-he knows a bit about pressure to post.

Have a read, and a think and ask yourself the question: How big do I want to be? For myself, I’m not sure, and I may never have to worry, but the thought of 2 million people waiting for my next post….