Stealing a line from "Galaxy Quest (1999)", one of my new maxims is to "Never give up. Never surrender." Despite some obstacles to blogging, as I've mentioned numerous times, I am still here. Some harassing critics (trolls) have come and gone, but I am still here.
Hari, a very good online friend, recently wrote how a lot of blogs have Gone awfully quiet and can't find an explanation for this broad phenomenon. Some reasons are that authors have given up, some have had their priorities shifted, and some have run out of things to write about.
While I really can't suggest anything to eradicate the first two reasons, the third reason is easy to destroy. As Hari recently found out, publishing speed-linking articles of some kind can fill the creative void. My own Blog Drive-Bys, Hari's Blog perambulations and Baxter's Blog walkabout (which he hasn't done in a while) are all examples of speed -linking articles and anyone can do them. They don't take that long to do.
Comments are considered the life blood of blogs for some authors. As Nirmal recently suggested in his article, How to Get More Comments on your Blog- Secrets Revealed, less can sometimes be more. If you post more than two articles per day, there's a chance that one or more of your articles will get missed. Most people comment on the first article of the front page, your index page. This is one of the reasons I've been attempting to limit myself to as many articles that will fit on the front page and try to leave a gap of time in the neighborhood of at least 24 hours from the first one of one day to the first one of the next. I am not always successful and the reasons are not always within my control.
Jon Phillips at SmartWealthyRich and Chris Lodge at Blog Op, as well as a host of others, have tons of articles in their archives on how to make your blogging life easier. Read those articles. Use them. If you have questions, contact them. They reply to email from readers all the time.
Employ my maxim and get away from the blogging blues. Never give up. Never surrender.
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