May
Blog Dry Spell Relief – An Add-on and Recycling Strategy 1
Have a dry writer’s block or blog content spell lately for your money-making blog?
This is not an article for anyone just starting out, this is an article for someone who has a lot of great content out there but has hit a serious dry spell. I would hope someone starting out has not run into this problem.
If they have, they should reconsider their theme in order to find one where they will have enough to blog about.
This is a two-pronged strategy that works, or that at least will keep you afloat long enough while in parallel you develop your new niche products and/or pillar blog posts, newsletters, etc. Call this sustainment fodder for the plateau you’re in, until you’re ready for deploying the better stuff in force.
If this were a war, say there was an infantry division that was getting hammered pretty badly. Another division was on its way but it was going to take a couple months.
So in the interim, a ready reserves unit was mobilized to stand in the gap until the regular force arrived.
Well, consider this two-pronged blog sustainment strategy a method similar to the war analogy, it’s your reserves to stand in the gap until your best forces (blog content) arrives.
Part 1 – Have a Ready-to-go Blog Content Add-on Strategy
This means you have a low-impact, but high-results method of sustaining your blog with something easy yet useful for your readers.
One of the best ways of doing this is to use the strategy of providing tools or explanations of concepts or topics within your niche topic. These are good placeholders for a short while, though they won’t sustain you for too long.
I recommend no longer than 1 month tops to allow you to prepare much better content in parallel.
I also recommend a strategy of reducing your post frequency by half or one third to also give you more time. Beyond that though, and you may start to appear non-viable. You don’t want that especially not for a highly popular blog that gets 9and depends on) lots of traffic to make money.
It may just be better to pay for some good content from some of your profits, hire an author or go to a decent articles directory that allows you to use their existing content for free or for a nominal free. Just be sure to follow their rules carefully.
Step 1 – Create a Master Definitions Word List
You may need to visit other blogs in your niche, wikipedia, etc for brainstorming idea joggers. So maybe your site is about fishing.
You should try to get about 25 concepts to post brief 200 word posts about, at a rate of 2 per week, so 8, while you buy time to develop more and better content in parallel, to include a free and/or premium eBook.
This rate will sustain your blog and give you time for development of other things on the side. It’s low impact and takes about 30 minutes per 200 word article, in my experience.
At some point you need to get it down and be able to crank out an article between 300-500 pages somewhere between 30 minutes to 1 hour to include edited and ready for publishing.
You may not have the time to develop these in advance, so you can use them as you go. Whatever works best, and there’s a lot of flexibility here.
So my concepts or quick topics list for Fishing I would list some words such as:)
- fishing
- lures
- bait
- sinkers
- trout fishing
- catfish fishing
- fly fishing
- etc.
You get the idea. You can define niche things not just individual words, and talk about them and your application or experience. Notice I said trout fishing. You could use words to describe what it’s all about as you see it, in a definition, and then tell a quick story.
The point is here to have fresh relevant keyword focused content so your blog stays viable while you work on the good stuff behind the scenes.
A note of caution
Still post some great content ion between all this or your readership descriptions will fall away from the blandness that the site will adopt from this strategy. Sprinkle in some good stuff as a way to keep the current readership.
Don’t just wait until you develop 50 more good articles. You could otherwise loose too much readership. Been there, done that.
Sprinkle 10 throughout, and you also have 40 for later instead of the full 50…or whatever numbers you’re shooting for based on your number of posts per week, and how far in advance you’re trying to work.
Then, you would use tags of some of the actual words you’re defining. So for example, it it’s the fishing site, and you were writing a post entitled “What is a Lure” or “Definition of a Lure”, then your tags would be something like “Lure, Lures, Definition of a Lure” etc.
But I imagine you get the point. Your keywords for your meta tag should also be the same as the tags for an ultimate optimization strategy for this money making blog of yours.
In part 2 of this article about Blog Dry Spell Relief – A Content Add-on and Cycling Strategy for a money-making blog I will talk about a very effective second strategy of getting through the blogging plateaus and writer’s block dry spells that will come. They are inevitable. So stay tuned…and subscribe so you can learn some valuable ideas to keep that money making blog going.
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