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Blogging isn’t an easy task. Creating relevant and inspiring content on a daily basis is exhausting, and no blogger—not even the best out there—is exempt from blogging burnout. It happens, it’s normal, and it’s easily fixed.
Here are 7 tried-and-true tips I use to avoid blogger burnout.
1. Schedule your Posts
The easiest way to avoid burnout is to take a chunk of time to write several blog posts and then schedule them to post throughout the week. Not even the most ambitious blogger has the time to post every day, so if you write your posts ahead of time, you’ll be all set for the week, giving you plenty of time to brainstorm for next week’s content.
Additionally, with a set chunk of blogging time, you’ll be able to focus knowing you’ve dedicated that time to blogging. Your writing will flow more easily and your posts will feel less strained if you allot yourself set blogging time.
2. Focus on Quality over Quantity
How often you post is entirely up to you. If writing 5 days a week is too much, try writing 3 days only, focusing on the quality of your content over the quantity. Readers come back for engaging content, and if the quality of your posts suffers, it won’t matter how many times you post—your readers just won’t be interested.
3. Create a Series
If you’re having a hard time coming up with post ideas, try and think of a weekly or monthly series idea. That way you always have a set topic you can blog about, and it will be easier to brainstorm ideas for the post. Series also give your blog a schedule, letting readers know what to expect from you each week.
4. Swap Guest Posts
Find a fellow blogger and offer to swap guest posts! This allows you to not only swap readerships, but it also allows you to create a different kind of content for a new audience, which can be very therapeutic. When asking others to guest post on your blog, be sure to provide a topic and guidelines to make it easier for them to understand your expectations.
5. Rework old Posts
There’s nothing wrong with reworking an old post with a new spin or even creating a sort of “best of” list with past posts. You might find all the posts you’ve written on a specific topic and put them all together in one post as a convenience to your readers. Or you could do a monthly recap where you list your favorite posts from the month. This will also help your traffic as readers click around your site.
6. Keep a Notebook of Ideas
Keep a small notebook with you at all times to jot down post ideas that might come to you. Take it with you to work, school, or the store and always have a pen handy so you can record those flashes of inspiration that come to you. Then, when you sit down to blog, you’ll have a whole flood of ideas to inspire you.
7. Take a Break
Sometimes you just need a break. If you’re feeling particularly burned out, just take a week or so off from blogging. Then you can come back to your blog feeling fully refreshed with a new perspective on where you want to go with it.
The most important part of blogging is to just have fun. If you don’t enjoy what you’re writing about, your readers will notice. Stick to things you know and enjoy, follow these 7 tips, and let your blog take you wherever you want to go.
Author Bio
This guest post was provided by Russell Jensen, a writer for SatelliteInternet.com.
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Thanks again for the opportunity to write on your website. Now I need to take a break and go outside instead of blogging tonight…
Great tips especially number 3 as once you have completed that series you can easily use a free convert to posts to pdf plugin like I use and make your own ebook out of that same series and either sell it or give it away to build your list 😉
All good, basic tips, but it’s usually more of a mental struggle to remember to do these things that’s the problem. Last year I tried blogging once every day, and OH MAN did I tire out. I’m trying to do a bit of blogging now, and the tiredness is definitely still there. I think it’s time to step back and work on other things for a while.
Regardless, good tips.