Talk to the hand…is a case of blogger burn out.
I have un-friend a few folks on facebook lately, they were too needy they wanted me to join this or that fan page, group or webinar everyday…they were saying I don’t really care about you lets talk about me!!
Your blog readers can reach that point…were enough is enough? Good posts offer a chance to have a conversation, and make insightful comments. When posting occurs too often and it gets hard to keep up…it becomes a chore and that gets replaced with something more enjoyable (goodbye, I must move on).
Each time you post, you push your last blog underwater.
I think some of my posts are pretty good, but the next blog stands on the shoulders of the last one. It is impossible to leave a great blog on top, but I know I owe you a new post and it may not be as good as the last one. Your readers will forgive you, so long as they had a chance to read and comment on the previous article.
Contrary to burn out, search engines love quantity as much as quality.
Change is good: I stopped watch certain TV series over the years even though I loved the content I didn’t have time to keep up with the saga…miss a show and you are LOST. Other formats offer great production quality that kept my interest, but the prior script wasn’t needed to follow today’s entertainment. This is a long way of saying if you post a lot change up the message so a new reader doesn’t need to know the history.
The Blogging Boulder…Momentum & Consistency.
Take a huge rock that sits in a stationary depression, we would all agree that getting it to move is a lot of work. I hope we can also agree once it is moving it is easier to keep it moving than it is to let it stop, only to try to move it again later. Richard Weisser posts consistently (almost) every morning he is the paper at my door, and I read him everyday. I’m not saying you need to post everyday, but if once a week is your rhythm, stick with it your readers will be expecting it and this will grow your following.
The world is watching, if I wouldn’t say it in front of my mother I wouldn't post it to the public. I post some raunchy stuff in the Activerain Comedy group, but as a member's only post. All my Public post are linked to facebook and Twitter, so I try to keep these on real estate topics and not overly political. I don’t know what is important to my next buyer or seller so I’ll try not to turn them off before we ever meet. I get a lot of traction from my Localism post people that are searching for information about my town find me this way, and Facebook friends subscribe to my blog and follow me outside of Activerain this is where my buyers and referrals are coming from.
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