A Dissection of Commenting

Hello! I was racking my brain for any sort of brilliant, clever, comment-raking-in post I could do, and obviously, did not find one. Then I began thinking of what gets some blogs so many comments.......Here I recount my official findings ;)

There are two sorts of blogs: those who have it and those who don't. Ours used to have it. For some reason, it now tends toward the doesn't side of having it. ;) I went on a mental quest to find out just what the it-possessing blogs have that we don't...and here's what I came up with:

• Catchy Blog Names (Our Family View From Us Two is a mouthful ;)
• Wonderful graphics (We are html challenged over here! Besides- our officious filter blocks everything and its brother so we can't usually even see our own background! :P)
• Familiar Blog Administrator names (Who can resist peeking at a blog owned by a person named Jo March?!?! :)
• PICTURES!! (Oh we have the cute kids in our family. We have the wonderful pictures...we just can't post them here unless we go to a closed blog! :)
• Weddings (Um......not seeing that happen anytime soon! :D )
• Blog parties (We host contests, but it doesn't have the pizazz that Scraps, for instance, has!)

I can only come to two conclusions, as I am not a Sherlock Holmes- either we have lost our touch for writing commentable posts, or life is simply busy for our followers too! :)
Sure Blogger added a Stats page, and our stats are passable, but I raked up some statistics myself that only bloggy people could notice:

• Saturday is D-Day (Dead Day) Nobody is on, no one votes on any polls, or comments on any posts. You had better just not post on a Saturday
• Polls don't tell you anything if people don't vote on them! ;)
• People like the weirdest, randomest, strangest things- try to please them, and you don't, post about how you pickled frogs' ears and played the banjo, and they'll leave you 12 comments! ;)

Anyway! This is the bent my blogging mind ran on this morning! Hope you don't mind so very much! :D -Rachel

Scary Thought, But Give Us Your Real Opinion! :)

Okay guys. Here it is: this is our quarterly "customer satisfaction" post ;) Basically, we have had this blog for four months now, and it is time we get some feedback. So here is the mission: All you guys who follow this blog, or read this blog, or even just occasionally visit this blog, please leave a comment and tell us three things: Your over-all opinion of this blog, your favorite thing about it, and what you think we could improve. Got it? This mission should only take a few moments, and we'd really appreciate hearing from everybody. I'd like to see at least 20 people give us feed-back, because we have 24 followers, and between them, and several people I know who read this blog but don't follow it, I think we can get a tidy little idea of what we should work on this next quarter! (Don't I sound dreadfully like a CEO or something. I hate those little up and down profit charts! :) Thanks to all of our followers, and those people who faithfully leave comments. I'm sure you know how it is when you write a post, and it is "virtual crickets". (Note: in our family, when someone does something that goes over about as well as a lead balloon, we say it was "crickets" meaning like on a movie when it is so quiet you can hear the crickets chirping! :) Okay! Off you go! We'll leave this post on through Saturday, so let's open the flood-gates and start the voting! :)

-Rachel and Sarah (Us Two)