learn wordpress now – how to blog!

It’s happened to me and it’s happened to a lot of people: you start up a brand new blog, you write your posts and pages with great enthusiasm and for a while all seems hunky-dory.

But then intertia sets in. You look at your blog and you can’t think of anything to add to it and you’ve run out of topics to write about. You’ve said it all and you don’t feel you want to repeat yourself. The blog sits there, getting older and more and more unloved and neglected.

So, what should you do?

Well, first of all, you have to decide whether the blog was a good idea in the first place. Look back and try to recall the reasons why you started it. Are those reasons still valid, or has something outside of the blog changed that makes it less relevant?

If you can honestly say that things have moved on and the reasons for starting the blog no longer exist, then fine – just move on. Let the blog expire (or delete it) and count the time you spent on the blog as an investment in learning and experience and look ahead to your next venture.

But if you know that the original purpose of the blog is still valid, then all you need is to refresh and reinvigorate it. Inspiration is what you need and if your own ideas have dried up, then why not look at what others are doing?

Do a Google search on your topic and look at the other blogs in your niche:

• What are they writing about? See if you can say something about that topic from a different angle.
• Do they have a more impressive design? Consider changing your blog’s theme, if only to revive your own interest in your blog.
• And what are the other blogs not writing about that would interest your, and their, readers? If you could find a gap in the market you could attract more attention to your blog as well as providing the inspiration you need to keep it going.

And, finally, comment on other people’s blogs: engaging with your fellow bloggers is sometimes all the inspiration you’ll need!