Blogging for (Dummies) Novice Folk
Do you blog? Is your blog still a work in progress or do you feel confident it could win a Top 10 Blog Award?
Oddly enough, I haven’t thought to buy a Dummies book on blogging. I believe this is due to how much advice I have been able to gain from other bloggers; advice that is always available at my fingertips whenever the need strikes me.
Recently, I posted about various projects I’m working on in The Construction Zone, including my book cover and conversion of my book so that I can sell it as an eBook. But I also mentioned making changes to my Blog. At this point, the changes may not be immediately noticed and it is still a work in progress. One cosmetic change I made was to add a tagline and I also reduced the amount of labels, actually cutting the number to half of what I had.
I’ve been reading, researching, taking in advice, some of which I’ll use and some I’ll ignore. I’m still sifting through all the material I have obtained so that I can figure out how I’m going to put it to good use. In the meantime, I thought I would share a few posts I’ve read with regard to blogging and the advice offered by others.
How about the focus of the content for your blog? Jeff Goins offers a Helpful Writing Exercise to Focus Your Blog Content. My focus is hopefully clear enough and I think my new tagline explains it well enough…I work to live but I dream to write and I am making my dream a reality. My subject is writing and how I am managing the time to write as a busy mom with a full-time job and I want to share with readers my experiences as a write and move towards publication.
If the focus of your content gets blurry or you tend to feel unprepared and out of material, you could be facing content-writing burn-out. Some can write daily, others just a few times a week and some only once a week. I prefer a few times a week; more than that would just be too much. However, if you blog and you feel burnt-out, try these tips from Daily Blog Tips in the post Five Ways to Avoid Content-Writing Burn-Out.
While this is only a small portion, a tiny fraction really, of the advice out there, these blogs are some that I frequently visit due to each bloggers’ sound advice and experience. I’m doing my best to make use of the advice they have offered and while it is certainly not a quick fix, I look forward to what I can do to improve my Blog as I follow the advice of others who are willing to share what works, or doesn’t work, for them.