Blogging Tip: Save Drafts for a Rainy Day

DragonBlogger — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:04:59 +0000

Many bloggers who try and have a new blog post daily or several times a day can find it hard to keep up that cycle without writing some posts ahead of time and scheduling them to post date in the future. This becomes a little less useful if you write blog posts about breaking news or articles that are time sensitive and you need to release the article as soon as possible or else you risk it becoming outdated information or not as important for readers.

However as a practice rule if you have extra blogging time one week, or you find yourself inspired and able to write more posts than you normally would then you should refrain from scheduling and publishing them all right away. Keep one or two blog posts in draft format for a rainy day, this could be if you get sick or if you just run out of inspiration one week you can simply use one of your pre-drafted posts that you wrote previously.

When writing a “rainy day” post as I like to call it, make sure it is a post that is not time sensitive and is a post that can be published 2 days from now or 2 months from now and still be just as relevant and important to the reader. By creating these timeless posts you don’t have the pressure of immediate publication and if you find that you have too many rainy day posts you can often use these posts as guest posts on other blogs if you have enough spares.

This is just one of the blogging tactics I have developed to help ensure I always have fresh content to publish on my blog and is a recommendation I give to fellow bloggers.

Do you yourself already implement a “rainy day” post system or do you schedule posts so far in the future that you can back date them in case you are unable to write or queue a post for the time you needed it? Share your blogging tip for making sure you keep your content on your blog fresh even when inspiration runs dry, or you just can’t find the time to update your blog.

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When Blogging There Is No Waiting Game

DragonBlogger — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:33:21 +0000

Bloggers have to realize that there is really no “Waiting Game” with blogging, unlike the previous generations where “If you build it, they will come” mentality existed and worked for certain types of companies and services bloggers have to “Go Get” their audience. There is just too much competition in virtually every category and topic on the web, just production quality articles and keyword tagging them alone is not sufficient to get you noticed and drive people to your site by itself.

You must immerse yourself in social media and every blogger is a sales person trying to promote their site and their opinions to the masses. Sign up for every single social network you can find (Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, FriendFeed, Ping.FM, BlogEngage, HubPages, Zimbio, BlogCatalog and hundreds more). Sign up and create a profile submit at least one or two articles to each social network, make sure your online “handle” is owned by you so your ID always associated on these networks is always your own.

If you are blogging with the intention to earn money from your blogs, you should also invest in your blog and grow its traffic. Very few bloggers are successful without putting some money into their blogs, this mostly should go toward promotion and advertising whether it is running CPC programs on AdWords, or running a campain on PayPerPost or SocialSpark to help get the word out. You want to invest a little bit of time and money into promoting your site and by funding it you are paying for awareness.

Know that your investments are far less than opening your own restaurant or physical business and you only invest what you can afford, but remember above all else. There is no waiting game in blogging, you must actively promote and sell your blog if you really want to get it recognized and successful.

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-Dragon Blogger

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