Maintaining a constant flow of posts on your blog

If you want to keep the money coming you have to keep the posts coming, that’s the essence of making money from your blog. You can’t expect people to come by regularly, read your thoughts, recommend you to friends  if you write an article a week or month. Practice shows that a constant flow of articles has a greater chance of making a habit for people to visit your website. 

Also in the era of RSS, constant good writing makes people subscribe to your feed. All sounds pretty easy to follow, but what do you do when inspiration is lost, as you can’t have good days every day? There’s a solution for this too: make a draft every time you have an idea, writing down a few words to remember you what the original idea was. This way you have  a buffer of future articles that you can write and program to appear on your website on regular intervals.

Once you have your buffer of articles already written you have the freedom to take a few days of pause, especially useful when you plan a vacation, a short trip of just don’t feel like writing. That’s not a technique invented by me, everybody successful with their blog does that, and sooner or latey you’ll get it too, if you didn’t already.

This is a low cost (or no cost) solution to ensure a constant flow or articles. Of course there are more elaborate solutions, like paying someone to do some writing while you can’t, but if you have money to hire someone you wouldn’t be reading this post in the first place, wouldn’t you?

PS. Expect regular articles on JohnPopes from now on, as I’m trying to do what I’m preaching