How do you keep up with a blog when you are suffering from
Blog Hangover? Has blogging started to
be more work than fun? Has it become painful
to develop interesting ideas? Do you feel disinterested, tired, and in need of
hair of the blog?
First, whether
you are blogging once a week or twice a month, keep to your schedule. If you
have established faithful readers, respect their time and loyalty. Give them something to anticipate in your
next blog post. Keep their interest. If you
don’t keep to your promised schedule, you run the risk of losing them and
having to attract a new readership from scratch.
Also, the more you post, the better your Search Engine
Optimization (SEO). With each post, the Internet builds a portfolio of your
work and your SEO increases. When people
search the Internet for a topic you have written, the chance that your work
will show on their first page of searches increases. Writing sporadically only hurts your reliability
and your SEO.
Secondly, blog
topics depend on the purpose of your blog, and the purpose of your blog defines
its genre. Look at all its facets and stick to that. A political blog is
different from a cooking blog, a Mommy blog, or an author’s blog. Focus on why
you blog. What overall product or
pronouncement are you selling?
For instance, my blog is about a writer of boomer age
struggling to find her writer’s voice. It is about her experiences, her
writing, and about the books she reads. I
am not selling anything, other than myself, so I alternate blogs about these
three subjects. It gives me a variety of latitude.
Thirdly, I get
inspiration from many places. I search calendars and approaching holidays. I read newspapers, magazines, and online news
sources. I try and keep abreast of the latest
trends, fads, and controversies. I keep
my eyes and ears open to the world around me as I travel, reading billboard
signs and listening to conversations and radio shows. I read voraciously and
make notes of pictures, poems, quotes, verses.
I soak up vocabulary and debates, and make lists and jot notes to use
later. I remedy my blog hangovers with a folder of ideas for future use. It helps to keep me interested and
interesting. It keeps me focused and it
shows respect for those who are kind enough to read my posts.
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