What About This Blog?

As I said yesterday, I am making a real effort to increase the reader and viewership of this blog. I am working on a article about my search for intelligent blogs. Today. however, I think I'll write about this blog, and why it is so messed up.

Every Sunday, since the creation of this free blogspot blog, I've posted my show called Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff. (And I appreciate you checking it out) but the problem with that is videos don't bring in viewers. Search engines, such as Google, recognize the written word and can't see what's in a video. So I think it will be up to my actual blog posts to bring in a audience.

And there lies the problem! My subject matter is all over the place. For a while I was reviewing movies and classic rock albums, I blogs about skeptical issues that were on my mind, then I was talking about my life, and all sorts of things. Write now, this blog has become a bitching ground for not being successful.

Does this even make any sense? Writing post's that will most likely drive readers away about how I don't have any readers? It is like owning a restaurant, telling people how crappy the food is, and wondering why they don't come.

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My All New Super Quest for Readers and Viewers!

I am shown some concern lately about the lack of viewers to both my blog and my videos “Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff”, which I expressed on the latest episode. My good friend, Pam, sent me a message. She wanted me to know that the best way to get readers is to read other peoples similar blogs and leave comments.

This is something I have attempted in the past but gave up and I think you will understand why as I go along. One problem is I have is that I never have found a blog like mine. Yes, I will take Pam’s advice and begin again.

I am using the Google Blogspot, “next blog” feature at the top of blogspot websites. Here is what I have some across. 22 family blogs, many of which have not been updated in 2 years. 75 sewing and quilting blogs and this I don’t get. It seemed that I just kept clicking, next blog, and sewing type blogs kept popping up! Over and over gain, like the Internet is laughing at me. Nothing again needle and thread, but I don’t sew, never have and never will.

Once in a while I find a blog that I don’t have permission to enter. Fine!

I figured I’ve visited about 200 blogs and I found 2 worth leaving messages. One was a personal blog in which the fellow wrote of his attempt at weight loss and the fact he received a raise. I congratulated him on the raise and gave his my support for his attempt as health. Next, I skeptical science blog, and this one I left a good comment and subscribed.

I’ll keep going when I have time. Tomorrow I’ll begin using Blog Catalog and see what I can come up with!

One bit a bitching to all other bloggers out there. Don't have music play automatically when people load you site. It is very annoying!

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This Week in the World of CWJ

So, I decided last week that from now on I would recommend a blog on my weekly ramblings. This is turned into a harder task that I first thought. Since I use a blogspot blog, I thought I’d use the next blog feature at the top of my blog to find other interesting blogs. The thing is, if I find a blog I like, I can follow it and hopefully the person on the other end will check out my blog. This is not a scam. I am not one of those that will follow every blog in hopes they will follow me. Only blogs that I really feel are interesting, ones that I may want to actually read once in a while would I follow.

What I find however is most blogs have the recent post with something like this ”I know it has been a while since I’ve posted but life has got very busy lately but I’m hoping to blog more often . . . “ And that would have been posted 2 or 3 months ago without any new updates.

Next is the family blog. I know these are great for the people involved in those families, but nothing on them is worth me recommending.

This is followed by the personal blog. The creator of this blog has decided to post an entry about everything that happens in his life. “Today I ate a Quart Pounder with Cheese and it didn’t sit well, spent a lot of time in the bathroom. . .” This is more of an internet diary that no one but the author would ever have much interest in, unless, of course, he gets famous. Hey Dell Griffith!

So today's blog is one called badmovies.org. It is a site dedicated to the off-beat films I really enjoy. They have nice forum with a bunch of like-mined movie watchers that certainly know a lot more about b-Movies than me. The site is filled with all kinds of great movie information, review, pictures and more.

I think the name, "Bad Movies" give the wrong idea, however. It is not all about bad films, but more about films that are just not the main stream, low-budget, cult films.

THIS WEEK ON COFFEE WITH JEFF

So, I am hard at work on this weeks show, harder than usual. This show is one that is near and dear to my heart. I won't tell you too much about it, you'll just have to check it out for yourself. Here is one of the clips I'll probably be using. It might give you an idea!

PODCAST OF THE WEEK!

This week I'd like to introduce you to Brian Dunning. Brian is the host of Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena is a weekly pro-science, anti-pseudoscience podcast. In a nut shell (What the hell does that mean, in a nut shell?), Brian takes on all those weird, explained stories we hear about all the time, like strange lights in the sky or mysterious figures lurking in the shadows that many consider proof of a paranormal, alien visited, monster hiding world and give real, down to Earth, scientific explanations.

If you don't understand podcasts yet, click here to read my article on the subject!

MOVIES TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND!

Friday night on Turner Classic Movies, the will be showing the best of the Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams films such as Airplane, Top Secret!, and Naked Gun. Of course we've all seen these films a million times but they still hold up for a bunch of good laughs. Also, late night on Friday, early Saturday, 1960's Steve Allen film, College Confidential. I might DVR this one just out of curiosity.

That's it for this week.

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