Being Productive When Your Blog Site is Down

DragonBlogger — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:04:38 +0000

So your blog site or hosting provider suffers an outage that lasts more than a few hours. What do you do to make sure your blogging time is as efficient as possible so that you can hit the ground running when your site comes back up?

In my case because my outage was caused by a Denial of Service attack that spanned several days I didn’t want to deliberately promote or encourage people to visit my sites, as this would cause them to hit page cannot be displayed, or time out errors from my blogs having outages. CommentLuv couldn’t contact my blogs to even display the latest feed article due to the outage, so it made commenting and leaving backlinks something that wouldn’t have been as productive.

Instead I turned to focusing on writing articles, using good old fashioned Textpad and just writing and writing, with the intention to just queue all the articles when my blogs came back online. I also used the time to publish a few haiku’s on associated content and write a guest article for some other sites. The bottom line is, even when your site is unavailable you can use the time to still be productive for your site.

Here are some top things you can do to still be productive with your site while under an outage (besides just writing as many articles as possible to queue for later).

Network and build influence on [intlink id="109" type="category"]Twitter[/intlink] by taking some time to friend people in like categories, be interactive and promote other peoples articles instead of your own for a little while.

Repeat the above with any other Social Network like BlogCatalog, Plurk, Friendster, Digg, BlogEngage…etc.

Read up on some of the latest articles submitted to BlogEngage or Twittley, and tweet, vote and promote those articles if you found them good and interesting.

Tune some of your browser bookmarks or build a new favorites list of blogs you visit often and can easily access and visit by opening all links in the same folder.

What are some of your tips on being productive for your blog, when your blog is down or inaccessible?

-Dragon Blogger

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