My sister Natasha posted a great article titled “Blogging Tips for the Book Blogger.” If you don’t have a book blog don’t let the title scare you away from visiting. It’s full of blogging tips that any blogger can use. You may want to check out.
Natasha was my blogging apprentice and I’m quite proud of the blogger she has turned in to. She now runs a very popular book blog.
Her blog inspired me to write a couple of “quick tips” of my own…
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Don’t let your blog go as long as this one has without updating it. I’m sorry readers for the long delay in answering your comments, and my lack of posts. This blog, and my others, hasn’t been abandoned. I’ve just been even busier than usual with some design projects and business things that have needed my undivided attention.
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My other tip is for those of you who may run more than one blog. Assuming you have a few people that would like to keep up-to-date with what’s happening in your life an easy way to do that is through blogging. Those people could subscribe to your each of your feeds, or they could visit one central site that contains the last post from each of your blogs.
You can see the one I created here: http://www.leisawatkins.com.
Here I’ve taken my websites and broken them into different themes.
BookWise - This contains links to my book blog, my business, features books from my library, and shows my latest reads.
Dream - This section links to this particular blog and will link to several other projects eventually.
Create - This section links to my Create with Leisa blog and will eventually link to my art gallery and publications.
Learn - This section features our educational sites. (All in serious need of a new post at this time.) My favorite is the art blog.
Live - Features things related to my life in general. For example, it features my recipe blog. It will contain links to my gratitude blog, and one where I celebrate life in general. I’ll also link to my online photo gallery here, once it is set-up.
Creating it was simple enough. I just created a feed for each of my blogs and had it fed to the new site. Now my family can keep up with their daughter who has become addicted to blogging.
We also have a winner in the Who Am I? EntreGame for round 7. MaryLou of MaryLou’s Art Adventure correctly identified The Saving Bug as the mystery blog. Congratulations Mary Lou. You have won 250 Entrecredits compliments of Green Colibri.
I’d like to do a write-up on the blogs, but I’ll have to do that later. I’m off to a evening of dining on rich desserts and mentoring.
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Great tips. Where have you been?
Here’s a tip I would add, as it’s working for me:
Use a blogging platform that allows you to save drafts and make future posts. No one knows when time suddenly won’t be available for blogging or when writers block will strike. So when you have the time, write some generic posts about anything that can be published on any day. Keep them complete in draft form or save them and set them to be published on a future date that you can move up or move back as needed.
That way when you’re busy, you’ve got some posts waiting in the wings, and you’ll always have new content.
I’ve got just such a filler post that will appear Friday, but it’s about blogging so it could be posted at any time and no one will realize I wrote it two months ago.
Even a post that’s in progress and not fully finished will save you time with only minor polishing or editing necessary.
Wordless Wednesday Posts–they’re a no brainer. You should have four or five of them all done, on your site, with draft status just waiting to go at the click of the “publish” button.
I hope this helps!
Cheers!
Hi Matt,
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to contribute.
I really like that tip and recommend that as well. I’ve done that a couple of times.
Now I’ve got seven articles all in various stages of being done. None of them where to the point that I could publish them. When life got so busy the last couple of weeks I was sure wishing that some of them were a little closer to being able to publish.
~ Leisa
Hi Leisa,
Thanks for linking over to my post. I like Matt’s comment as well. I do like being able to publish a post when I’m not around. What a great idea to have one site with all of your feeds.
Natasha,
You’re very welcome. You have a great blog (hint for my readers) .
I use the future publish of a post a lot on my art blog and love that feature. It it wonderful to have articles ready for those times when life gets really busy.
~ Leisa