Great Circle

by Jacob Share

Many newbies to the blogosphere get their first blogger’s block after 3 months of blogging but veteran bloggers can also run out of article ideas and get tired from spending too much time on each article. Sound familiar? This guide will help you streamline your habits on the way to blogging well for a long, long time.

7 Killer Tips to Daily Speed Blogging Success

Know that you’ll get better with experience

When I began blogging, I could spend DAYS writing articles like this one and you can tell. Already I was asking myself how long it would last, but I was having so much fun that I kept going. As I pushed myself further, I improved to the point where most of my articles now only take ONE hour to write. You can do it too if you aim for it.

Use your favorites to build articles over time

As you regularly surf the web or browse your RSS feed reader, bookmark articles that you may want to blog about at some point later and this way you’ll gradually build post topics over time. Be careful how you tag those bookmarks so that when you need an article idea, you can choose all the bookmarks for one tag and filter from there, which is how I compiled 40 Tips for Job Seekers Over 40.

Schedule your blogging

All successes are based on a formula, and the best way to express a blog formula is in a monthly schedule detailing what you’ll blog about and when. Having a daily objective will prevent you from faffing around trying to decide what to blog about, a big time-waster for anyone. Sprinkle your schedule with news articles, reader surveys, speedlinking roundups and weekly link-bait like The Funniest Rejection Letter Ever.

Blog early in the morning

Blog when your mind is at its freshest. First thing before you check your email and/or feed reader is good, but if you like ‘hot off the blogosphere ideas’, you might prefer to blog immediately afterwards. Just blog early and get your daily article out of the way instead of letting it hang over you all day like a gray cloud.

Let the words flow

Once you have an idea and are ready to blog, let the idea out. Speed readers fly through text multiple times to let the meaning seep in, while touch typists type as fast as they can and then go back to correct errors. Follow those examples by sitting in front of your screen and filling it as quickly as possible. Then go back to edit, rearrange, clarify and optimize. I ’spew’ blogged 4 Simple Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Job Search and Your Life this way in less than an hour.

Stay focused

Let nothing interrupt your daily one hour speed blogging creation process. Do whatever it takes to stay in focus. One of the advantages of aiming to finish in a single hour is that almost any potential interruption can wait for such a short period of time to go by.

Break up articles into smaller parts

Keep articles as short as possible to get your point across, and then try to shorten them some more. Shorter articles usually means less time spent blogging them. Some of the early articles on my blog JobMob were loooonnnnggg and I knew that was bad because even I was getting bored reading them. If that happens to you, break up your articles into series of 3-4 posts on the same theme.

Wrap Up

If you follow these tips and develop them into terrific blogging habits, you’ll be amazed at how easily you can become a regular blogger with more time to spend on promotion and other activities to grow you blog’s readership and revenue.

–Jacob Share

Jacob Share created JobMob to rally job seekers and jobfinders in getting jobs in Israel and all over the world. The blog is filled with job search tips and humor, so you should subscribe now to JobMob via RSS or email if you’re looking for work or just want to laugh about it. When that’s done, enjoy some funny job search horror stories.