On my daily round today I found a post over at Dat Money. I thought it was really interesting, since I where actually thinking about what do write today. I don’t have any great posts in draft, and basically have to write something from scratch.

If you have been a blogger for a while you probably already have been in the spot I’m at now. Don’t have any ideas, but feels like you have to post something. Don’t!

Dat Money uses the following example to “prove” that you don’t have to post every day to be a popular blogger.

Don’t believe me? You don’t have to. Feel free to go talk with Tina Su of thinksimplenow.com. She is a very good example of a successful blogger who only posts twice a week. Yes, you read right – ONLY twice a week.

Think Simple Now got 4000+ subscribers and an alexa below 40k. This is a good indicator that her blog is fairly popular, and people like what she writes.

What I’m trying to say is; Write a couple Quality posts a week, instead of throwing garbage posts at your readers every day just because you feel you have to. If you think about it it makes perfect sense. I got 10-15 blogs in my RSS reader, which I check several times a day. As you can imagine I get around 10-20 posts a day, and I don’t read them all. I scroll down fast, and if a headline or image catches my attention I’ll check it out, if not, I keep scrolling.

So, one of the most important thing you do when writing a post is the headline. It has to be good. It has to be catchy, and it as to be unique. Use some time on it. The same goes for image. Try to have at least one image in every post. (Haven’t got there myself – I know!) Images says more then a thousand words, and are great to get your readers attention when “fighting” against all other posts in their RSS readers or on the internet in general.

So, what to do in your spare time, since your not writing rubbish posts? Well – promote your blog. Promote your quality posts. If they are good, people don’t mind getting a link to it. Post it on different forums in your niche. Don’t post just your link, but maybe write a little summary and ask for comments etc. If you get a discussion rolling you will for sure get some nice traffic, since you only wrote a summary and left a link!

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