In order to publish a successful blog you constantly need to generate high quality content for it. It generally happens that when you start a new blog your head is brimming with new ideas and you feel that you have tons of literature to write on the subject.
Then after a few weeks or a couple of months of hectic blogging things begin to wear-off and the initial effort begins to lose its steam. It's not your fault and it is not that you don't want to put in the requisite effort, it's just that after a while you naturally run out of ideas unless you are constantly working in that field and it is a very "happening" field. Take for instance blogging, web designing, or even Internet marketing; new things are happening on a daily basis and the bloggers always have something to talk about. But what about a blog on, say, herbal teas or themed T-shirts? How much can you come up with? You need a system that supplies you with a constant stream of ideas and topics and even material to write about. Here are a few things that can help you keep generating quality and relevant content for your blog, non-stop:
REGULARLY VISIT OTHER BLOGS AND WEBSITES
By visiting other blogs and websites dedicated to your subject or something related constantly exposes you to new ideas and opinions. You also learn how innovative people create content for their blogs and you can apply similar techniques to your own blog. You will notice that people have different ways, very often highly interesting ways, to say the same thing. You may also notice that they are leaving some vital information that you can cover on your blog. Reading other bloggers also gives you new information to think about.
SUBSCRIBE TO RELEVANT RSS FEEDS
Subscribing to RSS feeds is a good way of tracking what's going on in the world of blogging regarding your favorite topic. If you write about books it would be interesting to know what other bloggers have to say about your favorite book or about the book that you loath. It's not that you only have to write about books that you love, you can also write about books that you hate. While subscribing to RSS feeds take care that you don't subscribe indiscriminately because this eventually turns into a nonsense; going through hundreds of RSS feeds in an hour or so is not humanly possible. Just stick to 20 or 30 blogs and when you find yourself subscribing to a new blog try to remove some existing ones from your subscription list.
INTERACT WITH OTHER BLOGGERS
Interact with bloggers who have already written a lot on the subject you are dealing on your blog. They may seem like competition but in blogging basically there is no competition and bloggers generally love to help each other. Regular interaction with other bloggers gives you new ideas that you can use on your blog. You are also exposed to different and sometimes contrary opinions; this is healthy.
ENCOURAGE YOUR VISITORS TO ASK QUESTIONS
It is easier to answer when you have a question; similarly when you have a topic it is easier to write on that topic. Constantly ask you visitors what they would like to read on your blog and as long as they stick to your fundamental theme try to write what they want to read. Once things get rolling you will have so much stuff to write about that you won't have time for it.
GO THROUGH YOUR EXISTING POSTS
You may find lots of incomplete or insufficient, or hurriedly written blog posts on your own blog. Select some of these posts, rewrite them with a fresh perspective and add the things that you omitted in the original post. Writing on the same topic is not "repetition" and "duplication" if you write it in a different manner and if you add something new to it. You can also expand a subheading into a completely new post.
INVITE GUEST BLOGGERS
This you can do once you have developed decent traffic for your blog. The other bloggers would love the extra exposure. Ask them to guest blog for your blog and publish their profiles as a returning favor. This is also good when, although you have got a lot to write about, you have no time. Guest blogging also brings in a new perspective and a new way of expressing to your blog and it expands the horizon of your subject.
HIRE A PROFESSIONAL WRITER
Bloggers who neither have time nor inclination to write for their blogs but who do want to have blogs hire professional writers to write for their blogs. This may seem like a bad idea because blogging is after all self-expression, but why bound blogging with needlessly idealistic notions? Many individuals want to run blogs to promote their businesses and to advertising revenues without wanting to write on their own. Some would like to write but they don't have the required time. Some would like to write but they are not comfortable with the skill or the language.
Whether you decide to write for your blog on your own or hire a professional writer the only thing matters is uninterrupted quality. Provide quality, relevant content to your visitors on a regular basis, promote your blog whenever you can spare some time, and you have got yourself a successful blog.
==================================================== Amrit Hallan is an Online Copywriter and a Website Content Writer. Some of his clients also know him as an SEO copywriter. When he is not lazy or not extremely busy he shares his thoughts on content writing, blogging, SEO and Internet trends through Content Blog |
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