Jan 19 2009
3 Useful Things to Do When You’re Not Writing Blog Posts
Go on a Study Tour of Other Blogs
It time to stop being obsessed with your own blog. If you want your blog to grow, you have to start learning from other blogs. Of course you will find hundreds or even thousands of blogs related to your blog theme. Instead of hopping from blog to blog, spending only a few minutes on each, choose one blog to study thoroughly.
If I were you, I would choose a blog that has been around for a few years. I would start from the first post the blogger made and analyze how the blog has evolved into what it is today.
I don’t expect you to do this in a single day. You can take up to a week to thoroughly study a blog. If it’s a blog that has been around for years, it will give you an idea of some topics you could cover in your own blog from your perspective.
Leave `meaty’ comments on topics that you’re excited about. Your content must be useful enough to spur readers to visit your blog.
If there many other useful blogs, list them down in your notebook and visited them one by one once you’re done with the current one.
Research Offline Magazines
Since there’s an obscene amount of content available online, some of us tend to neglect useful content in magazines. By reading magazine articles related to your blog theme, written by accomplished journalists, you can pick up useful ideas for your blog posts.
Take note of keywords or phrases that you can cover in your blog posts.
You don’t necessarily have to cover the latest issues. Go through your collection of magazines of the previous years.
You may spot a long article that could be condensed into a series of blog posts; from you own perspective, of course.
Look at Your Own Categories
Have you been creating a new category every time you make a post? Go through your categories and note the ones in which you have only a few posts.
Come up with topics for these categories. Having a balanced amount of posts for your categories increases your credibility in the eyes of your readers.
Spend the next few days generating content for these `starving’ categories.
