Entries Tagged ‘blogging tips’

Have you ever faced a situation where you don’t have enough topics to write on your blog? Or even worse - you have a topic in mind, but don’t have enough stock information to get started and expand it into a decent post. And finally the worst scenario - there’s no motivation or drive (internal or external) to continue posting!

If the above description explains your situation, you are suffering from what is known as the ‘writer’s block’. I had written a short post sometime back on using the skribit widget to get rid of writer’s block. In this post I would like to share some methods that I personally use to keep writing continuously - well, almost.
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We get to see blogs of all kinds these days. The look ‘n’ feel or the content organization of a blog depends a great deal on the underlying platform (Wordpress, Blogger, MovableTypes etc), the theme or template applied, and the extensions (widgets, plugins, gadgets etc) added to the platform and the theme.

Many of us blindly use the ’standard set of features’ that is used by most others or offered by the platform. But are these neatly-laid out and space-occupying things make sense to most readers? Do you have any features on your blog that is never ever used by anybody? It’s time to do a self-analysis.
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Recently I was going through some of the older posts on this blog, just to get a feel of how things were in the past. Though DollarShower is not a very old blog, I could still feel a lot of difference in my approach - now and then. This was visible in the way of writing, formatting or even involvement with the readers and it prompted me to edit a few posts, if not for major changes to the content itself.

Reasons for editing an old post

Though some people never edit their old content (and some don’t even display timestamps, for that matter), I found some valid reasons to do so. According to me, the following are some of the motivations behind modifying an old post:
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In fact, I was intending to write on a similar topic (’US ad expenditure trend‘) until I read this post from ProBlogger today. Basically he is talking about how to recession-proof your blog and I encourage all of you to read that post first (and excuse any duplication here, as I wrote this post in one go as an improvisation on my draft)

As we all are experiencing, the global markets are nose-diving for the past few weeks following credit crunch, sub-prime issues and what not. Directly or indirectly this has affected the job scene, housing market and various other bank rate specific industries such as automobile sector. It is imminent that it will soon affect online entrepreneurs as well. So if you are a blogger, web service provider or an online content provider chances are you will be going through a lean patch - especially if your main source of income is one of the above - in the coming months. Click Here to Continue Reading