Regular Blogging

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I have to be honest here that I have trouble remembering to water my plants, check my post office box and blogging regularly. I  know I need to face the fact – my blog needs to be regularly updated to maintain its readership! Yet sometimes a month slips past like a raging river  after a storm and  seems to have no room for a quiet conversation in it.

But this is an article about what it’s important to do and not about my own personality defects although I do sometimes feel a trace of hypocrisy passing on such great advice when I am so poor at taking it. Ah well. 

We have discussed how to write attractively, so now we are going to discuss what we are going to write on. I think a blogger should write on is a topic that he or she feels passionate and interested in. If you’ve chosen to make blogging a career because you want to escape a mundane job – forcing yourself to write about something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as as any mundane job!If you are blogging for pleasure – then  stretch out and open yourself to  your creative passions.

Your feelings and emotion show through your writings! If you feel indifferent to a certain subject but still write about it just for the sake of it, your readers will notice it. Remember the advice about writing with a personality? Forcing yourself to write will not establish a welcoming style at all.  There is a quote that goes  dance as if no one is watching.  The same goes for writing, write as if no one is listening, write to express yourself.

Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to your blog about it and try and make it a habit to post at least once every day at the start, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article you read today. Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of effort to get you moving. First, you might just budge an inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally reach your full speed. Then, it’ll take a lot of effort to stop you instead!

However, no matter how well you know your topic, your brain is bound to get exhausted over some time, so here are methods to brainstorm for content for your blog.

1)     The very best way to brainstorm is to see what other bloggers have to say about stuff happening in your field of discussion. And the very best way to find related blogs is to use http://blogsearch.google.com/ or www.technorati.com. There are other decent search tools too, you just have to look around. From other blogs, you can gather more knowledge on your subject and you can also comment on what others have to say on your own blog!

2)     Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in your field, you’ll have quite an unexhaustible “conversation” ongoing, so you’ll not need to actively search for content to write about. However, if you’re still stuck, search for news articles related to your niche in the local newspaper or online through sites like http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com.

3)     You can also have conversations with people with the same interest as you in the particular niche you choose, so you will eventually build up a bank of questions and answers and interesting discussions to write about in your blog. To do this, join forums related to your niche, but not every forum there is out there. Stick with one or two with the biggest number of members or the one which is most focused on your niche. This will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and generating profits.

Try to keep up your momentum of posting once per day (more if you have a lot of content to write about) so that the major search engines will know that your blog has fresh content everyday. This will attract the search engines to spider your page on a more frequent basis, hence ranking you higher and gaining you extra traffic.

At the other end of the spectrum, try not to let a week go by without a post and if you do write only once a week make sure that its worth reading.

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