Blogging writer

Traffic has gone down dramatically on this blog and not only because it's August and everything is slower because everybody is on vacation. I made private most of my most visited posts, and you know why? They brought the "wrong" readers here.

The first time I'll see on my dashboard that someone typed something related to my name or my writing in the search engine box, I'll celebrate with a vignette.

Until then, I'll keep wondering why people look for answers on search engines and mostly on blogs. I mean, I'm sure there are experts' blogs out there, but if I'm researching something I'd rather go to a web page, possibly the official one when available. Like following the links from Wikipedia entries (again not the best place for research, but a good start).

Yes, I do follow many blogs, but usually it's to be entertained – although I follow some pros also to be educated. What I don't understand is who said bloggers must do instructive posts to drive traffic to their site? Can't a blogger just ramble and entertain him/herself and his/her readers?

The most successful blogs are usually news blogs or opinionists blogs, and I'm none of them. Successful authors have successful blogs for obvious reasons. Do I want my blog to be successful? Yes and no. I want traffic, but not any kind of traffic. I'd like to find readers, people who like my writing and give me feedback so I can improve. I'm self-taught and don't think I can teach anything to anyone. And I'm bad at following the rules – I think there are too many already.

Who made them anyway? Who decided what bloggers should blog about? And the final and most important question – and I'd really love to hear your opinion on this – what are people looking for when searching for something on the internet? And why do they read blogs? Why do you?

Thank you for any answer you can provide…