Five Tips to Keep your Blog Content Fresh
It can be quite lonely blogging on a blog with very few comments [hint-hint] and it’s for this reason that a lot of bloggers give in and leave their blog to rot.
Another reason is the thought of having to write unique content, day in, day out, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Here are my tips for keeping your blog fresh:
What’s in the News?
Visit Google news daily, and look at what are the top stories in your niche and write a blog post about this story. You can add quotes, and give your own personal opinion, and most importantly ask readers for their opinion.
This week I blogged about the horrendous London 2012 Olympic logo, and that has generated a bit of a discussion but most importantly, it’s increased traffic by 10% this week, yes, that’s just one blog post.
Interview people
Contact a fellow blogger or someone within the niche you blog in and ask them if they would answer half a dozen questions. Remember to add an introduction to the interview, and a link to the interviewee’s blog or website.
Keep the interview unique and interesting. If it’s a good interview the interviewee, might mention it on their own blog, which will attract his/her readers to your blog, and increase your readership and RSS subscribers.
Get in a Guest Blogger
From time-to-time I’ll ask someone I respect within the travel industry to write a guest blog post, and then publish it on the blog. Ask them to introduce themselves, and make the post interesting and unique.
If it means a link to their blog, most guest bloggers won’t ask for payment, and will be happy to do it for free, especially if it will also help promote their own blog or website.
Pay for a Blogger
You could find someone who will blog for you, and you charge them per post that they write for you – each week give them a list of subject that you want them to blog about, and all you have to concentrate on is marketing the blog.
On a holiday blog I have recently launched, I have someone writing a blog post every day, which takes a lot of the pressure off me – especially since I already write on this and my travel blog on a daily basis.
Blog Swap
Once a week, you write a blog on a fellow bloggers blog, and they do likewise for you, that way your increasing your readership, are blogging on another subject that interests you and gives your readers something different to read in a different writing style.
I hope these ideas help you keep your content fresh and unique.
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