We know that Googles loves blogs, and blogs rank really well with search engines. We also know thousands of blogs are started each day (the actual number seems to change depending which site you visit) but most don’t last for 3 months. Google is literally a blog graveyard … dead blogs everywhere!
I searched for the term “wahm blog” yesterday and 70% of the blogs on the first three pages of Google hadn’t had any new content since last Fall! I bet they still get traffic everyday. Do you have a blog you need to perform some CPR on?
It is never to bring a blog back to life, especially if it is still getting traffic. Think back to your blogging days and try to remember why you wanted to start the blog, what did you want to blog about? Brainstorm all the reasons you stopped blogging and then try to come up with some solutions to get back on the blogging bandwagon. Was it too much posting every day? Try a lighter schedule – maybe only post once a week. Did you run out of things to say? Brainstorm some new ideas, write posts and schedule them to post for a few weeks, then keep adding more content. Invite a guest blogger or co-blogger to help you with your content. Use PLR to jump-start the posting. Fall in love with blogging again :)
If you are trying to bring back your mommy blog from the dead, you will definitely want to check out our sister blog and podcast, Profitable Mommy Blogging. But if you really want to just forget the blog, be nice and officially kill it, that will leave the search engine rankings open for those still blogging.
Sun, Mar 8, 2009
Working at Home