I have been dividing my attention on launching a few more projects but would like to report to you a unexpected experience gained from the last week. After reading CopyBlogger’s post about the two most important words in blogging, I took to heart the advice. It was decided that a goal for my project would be not to write “I” in the posts and include “you” as much as possible; throwing an occasional “because” in the mix.

Maybe there are other influencing factors, but this new blog has taken off in popularity very quickly. It has acquired a good readership number considering it hasn’t even been a week old yet. The blog is still in the google sandbox so it’s perplexing because there has been minimal promotion of the project thus far as the concentration has been on posting.

Using “I” liberally is often a trap / invitation for a blogger to ramble on their post - and that is not necessarily good. Blogs are about conversations, not monologues. Providing a value to your readers, and keeping them in mind (and in posts) will keep them coming back!

“I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid.”

Maybe my mind IS going, the long hours of toiling has been getting to me lately, but I still reserve my night time to read my daily Blog feeds. Today, a few mentioning of the topic of “Writing For Humans, or Writing For Computers” popped up in a couple of high profile Blogs.

Steve Pavlina has a long post filled with tips about How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog). Point # 4 on the post was Write for human beings first, computers second. Darren Rowse also asks the question “Should Bloggers Write for Humans or Computers?” on ProBlogger.

After reading the two posts, I’m left perplexed. The thought of writing for computers has never occured to me. Of course, AmBloggers are not immune to SEO desires. There are many who’d like to publicize their writings. Though like Darren said, it can become a huge distraction; one that most AmBloggers would not undertake.

I regularly read and occasionally engage in SEO practices, but only to the extent of optimizing permalinks, meta tags, and other non-content related activities. Seems like writing a post for computers means that you would target keywords. I’ve never done that and wouldn’t know where to start. The furthest I would go is to make sure I highlight technorati tags on my Blogs. Does that count?

When I put my fingers to the keyboard, I’m concerned with how my posts will sound, whether “human” readers will like it. Web crawling robots won’t give writers the recognition and feedback that they deserve. In the end, even if you have many computers liking you, if humans don’t like it… I don’t think AmBloggers will consider it a success.