What To Do With Your Blog on a Slow Day or Holiday
By Desty on Jul 3, 2007 in Blogging
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Its the day before the 4th of July and it’s a slowwwww day. I’m ready for a day off and my brain is fried! I want to keep my blog running with quality articles, but sometimes that’s difficult. I have tons of ideas but some days nothing comes out. I’ve had days where I write a post for Desty Online, write a guest blogging opportunity post, and still have another idea. Traffic numbers and RSS readers are slowing growing; I want to thank each and every person who reads these pages and feeds. I seriously appreciate it!
Scanning the feeds I subscribe to, I came across How to Keep Momentum Going on Your Blog with a Points System from Problogger. It’s a great idea for those of us serious about keeping quality on our blogs instead of posting just any ol’ thing. But I’m thinking that it’s more to keep the blogger himself busy and involved, but doesn’t really increase or expand the readership. I mean really, 10 points for installing a plug-in? Some plug-ins work behind the scenes and the readers would never notice. In my opinion, if an improvement doesn’t directly enhance the reader’s experience, it shouldn’t count.
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It seems there are a million things to do, whether I feel inspired with ideas or not. There little design tweaks, there is research to conduct for the posts and articles I have already committed myself to write, and there is the effort of social engagement, like what I’m doing right now!
So, there may be slower days in terms of how many visitors my blogs have, but there is never a slow day in terms of the work I do to keep everything going!
Sounds just like me. I mostly confine my blog upgrades and template changes to the weekends, where I have more time. Tuesday I had more time than normal because I had two story ideas that sounded good in my head, but when I wrote them, were really bad! So I jumped into the Wordpress help files and added my pages into my header. Maybe that’s why my head hurt so much yesterday; I haven’t really coded since 1997 when I was a wiz for a MUD. The pages are functional, but I would like them to look better, maybe some framework around them instead of floating in the header. I’ve got one more guest blogging opportunity I want to follow up on, check out some blog carnivals, and, of course, start brainstorming for the next post here. It reminds me of my favorite poem by Robert Frost.
“and miles to go before I sleep,
And Miles to go before I sleep.”