Fill It Up and They Will Feed or Read - NOT!
What you are looking at is my latest attempt to attract birds. A couple of months ago I filled this tube bird feeder with some cheap old bird seed from last year.
I’m thinking to myself, “Ahh the birds will love it. The seed looks fine to me and after all they’re just wild birds, they’re hungry and they’ll eat anything…right? Wrong.
The feeder hung abandon for over a month. Nary a wing in sight of the thing for the entire time. Now…I’ve been told it can take up to three weeks for birds to find feeders but I gave up when a mangy squirrel started to borough his way into one of the yellow holes on the feeder.
I’m thinking I have some fussy birds around my home. They must have tasted the old seed, turned up their beaks and flew the coup cursing me all the way into the woods. I was going to chuck the whole idea of feeding these spoiled brats of the air and let them fend for themselves but decided to give it one more try.
So it was off to find some ‘great tasting’ bird seed. I filled up the feeder again today and am anxious to find out if this premium bird seed is ‘good enough’ to attract a few birds.
I’m thinking a website is similar to a bird feeder. If I fill it up with old poor quality content chances are great the only readers I will attract are spam commenters trying to borough their way inside my websites back door.
So although I believe “Don’t Worry be Crappy” is a legitimate attitude when releasing new innovative content, it is not an attitude I want to hold for the majority of the content released on a website.
I have a hunch filling this bird feeder with great black oil sunflower seed still may not attract birds anytime soon. I may have to learn how to ‘market’ the fact there is premium seed now in the feeder to attract them. They may not trust me until I show them all the benefits of the premium bird seed. Or maybe I’ll have to give them some freebies and throw seed all over the ground under the feeder.
I am competing against all kinds of experienced bird watchers out there who know how to treat birds right. It won’t be easy to win their confidence.
Yep, coaxing wild birds to become my faithful daily feeders will be just like coaxing people to become my faithful daily readers.
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