As we know, the easiest and fastest way to let your blog go to pot, is to stop posting to it. It happens for many reasons, whether life just gets busy, maybe you’re suffering from bloggers block or another project you’ve been working on gets precedence and becomes the time hog.
I write all this from a position of knowing by doing. The past few months I’ve been inconsistent in blogging here, averaging two to three posts weekly and not my regular daily five to six times a week. And what has been my reasons for the slow down– life got really busy with me being pleasantly distracted by another project.
Thankfully my blogging did not grind to a complete halt, it merely slowed and many times by co-blogger David Mullings saved my butt my sending more than his regular number of articles just on time. Nonetheless it bothered me as I maintain big hairy ambitions for this site. So I figure now is as good a time to do the damn thing and take SilicoCarie.com to the next level. I want a vibrant blog media site that continues to be the leading and authoritative guide to your Caribbean World Online. So it has to have regular daily posted articles to keep growing. Luckily though, archived great content on the site and people finding via search engines has allowed the site’s number to remain relatively steady – email subscriptions and general daily readership didn’t do a dip and fall back but it didn’t grow as much as it could have either. But on to the solution my dear friends.
Solution—Build out a Contributor Network
Add freshly minted and diverse content on a regular basis that’s the primarily goal here. And it’s going to come from a dedicated and excited contributor network of writers, techies, columnists and photographers who will spot, interview, review, take pics of people, new trends, business ideas, that are interesting and relevant to them. Those whose submissions are outstanding will win monthly gifts.We’re looking for 1-2 monthly submissions and they must fall within our 12 categories and appeal to our broad audience of Caribbean Internet enthusiasts at home and in the Diaspora, Internet and Mobile industry professionals, Caribbean business owners and executives, the Caribbean curious who are people interested in what’s happening in the region and those with business interests here, in addition to bloggers and curious consumers.
It’s a decision that is timely to match the fast rise of the Caribbean Web as we’ve been chronicling since 2005.
9 Tips to get posting frequency higher on your blog.
In the process of writing this post, which acts as part self flagellation and part call to arms, I surfed over to one of my regular blogs my regular weekly blogs ProBlogger.net and found this wicked article on how to pull your blog out of a rut. I had to share it with you as I’m taking a couple bits of advice from it and I wanted to share with those of you who are blogging but not so regularly or who want to begin blogging but not sure how.
Problogger.net offers 9 tips to get posting frequency higher on your blog. I’ve summarized it here, so click here to get the while nine yards.
1. Set Goals and Deadlines
2. Try Something New
3. If you’re suffering from Bloggers Block
4. If you’re simply feeling apathy towards Blogging
