Are you blogging to yourself - or are you blogging to an audience. If your blog looks like a ghost town, then maybe Google lost interest because they think no one else is interested Social signals are vitally important these days - especially for blogs being that they're really designed to be socially engaging platforms. Blogging is not always about how much you post, but more often than not, these days it's more about the quality of your posts. And similar to backlinks, social signals are now a newage metric that signifies votes for your website.