Nobody Cares What You Ate for Lunch
I’ve seen that several times on various blogs… Nobody Cares What You Ate for Lunch. It’s meant to be a rallying cry to inject your website/blog with something useful for your readers, therefore ensuring you will have traffic, therefore ensuring you can earn money with advertising.
But I would argue, somebody does care what I ate for lunch (besides me, I mean.) It used to be, as a kid, I never ate much, so my mom would love to hear that I ate something (anything!) for lunch. My hubby would probably like to know I take time during the day to eat lunch… so I’m not starving or a cranky wife when he gets home. Maybe someone out there wants to know they are not the only ones to eat a piece of banana bread, a cup of hot chocolate and a cup of soup for lunch. Maybe I’ll share my secret recipe for fried rice… or talk about the awesomeness of the Quizno’s sandwich I had.
My blog is not about making money. If it was, I’d be writing every day, changing my layout and including advertising, promoting myself on other blogs, joining blogging communities, etc. And some day I may do that. But my audience may still hear about what I had for lunch!