Weekly Fix #7: Level Up! Invigorate Your Blog
By 
Aaron •
August 16, 2008
Just five links today, with a little more running commentary involved.
Carl Ocab has a guest poster who proposes a four-step formula for productive blogging. It’s pretty simple, but it’s safe most bloggers don’t have a plan when it comes to writing new posts or updating their blog. The end of the posts brings up something we’ve tried to bring up again and again…Consistency is the key! Just one post a week is better than a couple weeks every daily posts every couple months.
For bloggers who don’t want to miss out on any many, AdSense for Feeds is now available. You won’t be seeing it in the Blogging Addiction RSS feed anytime soon, though. Daily Blog Tips has doubts about it as well. It won’t be revolutionizing anything anytime soon.
It’s easy to appreciate Winning The Web’s analysis of their biggest traffic sources. StumbleUpon is their biggest referral, and ours as well. Winning The Web has bought several paid reviews and held contests, but nothing has brought in traffic like StumbleUpon.
We spent about $15.00 in hopes of starting a StumbleUpon snowball effect, with mediocre results. However, our recent post about the Mint statistics program took off on its own, having excellent results for free. It just goes to show that the best traffic is free traffic.
Is your blog stuck in a perpetual cycle of mediocrity? We’ve got solutions from two blogs:
Blog Tipz offers five ways to re-invigorate your blog. Hopefully you already place images in most of your posts, but it’s probably been a while since you’ve changed your layout.
If you want to take things to the next level, Blogging Tips has three ideas for you to try out. All three of the options take a lot of hard work, but each is a legitimate opportunity to strengthen your blog. Giving out original, free ebooks seems to be pretty popular in the MMO niche.
This upcoming week, we’ll answer another reader’s question about categorizing and setting his blog apart, as well as either another post in the traffic series or a new topic! You’ll have to wait and see.
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Thanks for the link back.
The post was intended to help people who need ideas for adding a little added flare to their blog without needing to resort to loading up advertisements to boost their income. With a few changes to the main page of any blog, you can quickly renew interest in a blog that hasn’t been updated recently.
Great blog, keep up the great work, and thank you again for the link to the post!
It’s very easy for blogs to become a bit sad and sorry. My blog was definitely in that state not that long ago so I did a crazy thing and deleted the whole blog…everything went. I moved to Wordpress, found a really nice template and started from scratch. It was the best thing I ever did because it brought new life to the blog for both me and my readers.