When I say a non-English blogger, I mean it in a sense that the blogger is not a native English speaker and trying to blog in their mother language. But for the sake of this story, I am going to take myself as an example of it. So there is going to be many “I”s in this story.
Audience
When I started my first blog on Blogspot back in 2009, I used to write book reviews is Mongolian. It could be a platform issue rather than the language issue, but using a language that is spoken by fewer people is bound to limit the reach of your story. That’s why I gave up on writing in Mongolian (I wasn’t that literal to write in it anyway) and started composing my blogs in English instead. That way, the hits for your blog is going to increase due to search result and probability for engagement increases as well.
Fonts, fonts and fonts
Having a beautifully designed blog is a part of a blogging experience. But constantly building on the template is very time consuming, hence Medium is such a convenient platform for whoever wants to share their story without all CSSs and HTMLs. Though even Medium can’t get behind the barriers of font selection. The current font that is used for English text does not look good once it’s changed to cyrillic. In result, the blog turns out to be something that is so unappealing to the eye, that you don’t really want to read it.
Lack of objects
Is it just me or everyone here has nothing exciting going around in their lives to blog about? I am more of a lifestyle blogger (the easiest one to write), but taking photographs for a blog is very hard. But seeing some Mongolian Instagrammers’ feed, their photographic skills or environment seem to be perfect for a hip-blog.
Lack of inspiration might be playing quite a lot of role in not blogging as frequently. But with tons of content out there already, internet can be without you (me), maybe.
