The Alternative To Updating Your Blog
January 23, 2007 – 3:48 pmby Darren
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The way I see it, you have two choices when you approach your blog. You can:
1) Update it, hoping to provide some useful information, with the thought that your website will get bigger and people will visit
2) Skip it. If you don’t update, it really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Who will know?
Those are your two basic choices. Which one you end up deciding on could be for any number of reasons. If you feel tired and frustrated you may end up choosing to not update your blog. But if you’re trying to make money blogging, more times than not, you’ll end up trying to update. If you don’t, what do you have then?
The real test comes in making the decision to update over and over for a long period of time. If you can stick with blogging when your archive is small, and your earnings are low, then you’ll have no problem posting as your online operation expands in size and complexity.
What keeps you posting?
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2 Responses to “The Alternative To Updating Your Blog”
i’m more inclined to lean towards #2) Skip it .. in the scheme of things. For instance, last year something happened and my traffic dropped 70%. It was my busy time, and I made the decision to slow down on a few blogs .. because I felt that my 150% effort could at best only bring about 20% result. If the money is in the archives, people will find it again over and over. I hate others who would remind people that they are not doing anything “I’m on vacation” “I’m busy and not posting” etc. and it only clutters your blog. I was always conscious about not spending time on a few of my blogs but, refrain from posting useless comments that do not help the archives or will just an insult to the avid readers who have yet to un-subscribe .. waiting for some new content. I am comfortable with my decision.
Another alternative (instead of “skipping it”) is to make it exciting and close your blog down - like Martin N. does - but never actually close ‘em down. Instead, just announce a closure, stop posting and have a Grand Reopening when you have time to post again.
By HART (1-800-HART) on Jan 24, 2007
I like the satisfaction of people reading my blog and commenting.
So I would rather update my blogs, if you don’t update is your website really worth anything what is the point of having the internet, say in 10 years noones updated their websites in 10 years it becomes worthless pointless waste of space.
Always update as much as possible.
By Mike on Jan 25, 2007