You May Be Sucking The Life Out Of Your Blog…

If you are not careful, you may actually be sucking the life out of your blog. Why do I say this? Well, there are a variety of factors influencing a blog’s success, these include content quality, site design, load time and overall reputation. If one of those is not up to scratch, you may be finding yourself in a situation where your blog does not get visitors and is not very lively. There may be however, other things which are making people steer clear of your domain name.

Basking In The Glory Of Others: I find myself doing it sometimes, and you might do too, it is annoying but you can’t help it. Looking at the A-list bloggers and thinking to yourself, could I be part of that one day? Then I stopped myself and I said, why am I looking at these blogs when I could be writing a post or guest posting?

Turning Point: That was the turning point for me, I made the decision to plod on and continue to write the best content I could and stop blog surfing, and here I am today - much the better for doing so. This relates to sucking the life out of your blog because you spend too much time on other blogs than you do on your own, by doing this you are neglecting the possibility of writing more and attaining a greater readership.

Moments Of Change And Turning Points: There was a time where I was unstoppable, visiting every blog from different corners of the globe - obsessively analysing what they were doing. Despite that being good for their traffic, I was wasting my time. So I stopped doing that, and then I decided to go and become active at the social media sites, this was yet another turning point - and it really helped my blog grow and continues to do so. The third thing I did was to establish a regular maintenance schedule, making sure everything in WordPress was working properly, fixing old posts etc…Stop wasting time, start blogging more, you are sucking the life out of your blog by not focusing on your blog and admiring others which will ultimately - make you feel bad and depressed.

Your Writing Style - Boring Or Conversational: We are humans, we talk to people all the time, we don’t tend to lecture them - we talk about stuff, we sometimes gossip and we may even inspire others. But we don’t present information in a monotonous way. That having been said - some blogs seem like they are trying so hard to dish the facts and have absolutely no sense of persona or humour in their text. Knock! Knock! We are living in the 21st century, no personality equals no audience. People will not return to your blog if you are making them feel like they are back at school reading a boring textbook…they enjoy personal stories, opinions and humour.

What Do Your Blog Posts Lack? A blog post can never be perfection, but you should still try and make it the best post you can. You can do this by ensuring that your post flows and has substance. This is a point that I try to get across quite often - substance, you can waffle on about a topic for hours (anyone can) but the true attributes of a good blogger is the ability to present a problem or situation and solve it within five or six paragraphs.

Don’t Suck The Life Out Of Your Blog: Be frank, be honest and say what you think. Do not be afraid of disagreeing with something in the news or the recent media, just make sure you have ample reasoning and you can back it up - if you can do this, people will respect you. Of course you may get the ‘haters’ to put it so quaintly, but usually that is a minute percentage of your readership and trust me - they will stay subscribed.

Posted on March 23, 2008
Filed Under Writing Tips and Techniques |

Tags: good-blogger, guest-posting, Social Media, subscribe, traffic, wordpress, writing-style

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