4 Ways to Deal with Burnout While Blogging

One thing I have noticed about blogging is that there are several days where I could easily write five articles. I feel like it is a great day to update my blog and I end up posting several articles for that day.

I love these kinds of days because I feel like I am writing great content for my audience. I get really excited to post these articles and I’m very happy that I can add three to five posts to my site in a single day.

Every now and then I reach a writer’s block, burnout day. These two problems definitely go hand in hand with and feed off of each other. These are the days where you are tired, you don’t want to write, you can’t think of anything to write and you are not interested.

Every blogger has a day like this. It isn’t your fault and you are not a bad blogger. The one thing you can’t do is lose all interest and get frustrated. There are several things you can do to counteract this. I have come up with a list of things I like to do when these days occur, they have helped me and hopefully they will help you too!

Take a Break

This one is simple and very effective. Whenever you feel like this, just take a break from your blog period. Don’t do anything related to it at all. Don’t use social media for your blog, don’t promote it, don’t write, don’t fix your design, etc.

Everyone needs a break, when you work hard for so long, it definitely becomes tiring. If you like to post content daily (like I do) you can become extremely tired and frustrated fast. Just leave it alone for a day and be ready to get back at it tomorrow.

Now some people may say that if you want a successful blog then you have to stick with it day in and day out. Your readers want content and won’t stay at your blog if it isn’t updated daily. I read about blogging everyday and I constantly see that everywhere. I don’t agree with this. What does it hurt to take a day off every week or every other week? It really doesn’t hurt anything.

Write About Something Outside of Your Niche

Why not? You have to be interested in something more than just your blog niche. Write about something you always wanted to write about. If you blog about sports, then talk about a movie you just watched. If you blog about cooking, then make a post about a book you read. It is your blog, and you make the rules.

By doing this is shows the audience a little more about you. Blogging is all about personal connections and friendships. This will tell the readers something else you are interested in and show them that you are human, and not some robot with a blog.

People may say that you shouldn’t do this because it turns your readers off. They go to your blog for posts about the niche. On the most part this isn’t true. If someone is a true subscriber and reader, then they go to your blog for you. Whether you are an expert or not, they want to hear what you have to say, so tell them.

Work on Social Media and Promoting

There is no rule that says you have to post every single day. You can always do something else to help get your blog more exposure and more traffic. Social media is a great way to do this. There are several things you can do to help your blog.

You can connect with some readers and potential readers. Keep building those relationships, because they are single handedly the most important aspect of blogging. Start conversations and debates to get your opinion out there. Let people know what you feel strongly about, so that people with similar and even opposite opinions can talk and connect with you.

To get anywhere blogging you need to work on exposure. People need to be able to find your blog to be able to read it. Something else you could do is touch up your facebook fan page. Make it more appealing to potential readers.

Redo an Old Post

I haven’t tried this yet, but I have read a lot about it and how it can help. I’m sure you have at least one post that you thought was absolute gold. A post that you felt would be interesting to a lot of your readers and that would get you tons of hits, but never ended up getting much at all.

Why not try it again? You are struggling anyway and this can only help your cause. The first impact it could have is that the second time you do this post it might be that big post you thought it would be. I’m sure you know more now about the subject than when you did when you posted it.

Another thing this is doing for your blog is expanding it. If anything this makes your blog a little bigger and gives you another page to be indexed by search engines, that’s a lot more valuable than it seems.

I hope this list helps you the next time you have a day with burnout and writers block. Always remember, if blogging was easy, then it wouldn’t be worth it. Just keep working through those tough days and you’ll succeed!

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