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How to take a Vacation from Blogging
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So some of you noticed a break in action here at Noheat. Its true I let it lapse for a week, “How horrible” you say to not update your content everyday. Actually it was a little experiment to see what happens when a blogger goes on vacation. Do you need guest bloggers? Do you need to twitter away on a beach just to keep your Google not busy? The answer is no.
Taking a blogger break is a completely natural thing to do, see problogger about blog vacations here. Even the most talented writer can run out of content or become burned out, so how do you keep yourself from becoming burned out while maintaining your userbase? Its very simple actually, most blogs or web pages have a good dozen or so pages that are your bread or butter, these are pages that get visited often and create the bulk of your traffic. The rest of the readers will stumble upon your web page from a plethora of links all around the web. Some will actually stumble in from StumbleUpon. The biggest thing here is that most readers rarely look at your post dates on your front page unless they are really dated so you are not loosing these readers. What about your current readers won’t they miss your content? Chances are your regular readers subscribe via RSS feed or a bookmark, and while they may miss your content few readers will unsubscribe or delete a bookmark after a week lull. Think about it how often do you delete a RSS feed?
What about ad revenue, will that suffer? Barely, sure you may be loosing traffic from new posts from regular readers who have subscribed to your feed but your bread and butter posts should keep you afloat while you are gone.
The point here is that if you need a vacation from blogging, take it. Your ad revenue will be waiting for you as well as your readers. Taking a break from your blog will keep you from writing posts that no one wants to read and can refresh your perspective on your blog. Just remember to set a date that you plan on returning to blogging full time, because a vacation from blogging can feel almost too good. Just remember your blog or web page is your baby and no one else’s and you certainly don’t want a vacation to start the desire to abandon a blog. Remember why you blog and what it gains you and you should be back on track.
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Hi Chris, I really appreciated this post, but I wish you would have written it LAST week. I took last week off and I was camping where there was no chance for internet or e-mail at all (well I cheated a couple of times and checked my gmail on my cell phone when no one was looking). I was really nervous about the impact of no blogging for a week on my traffic. Well I am happy to say that I came back, posted my first post and all my regular commenters were still there… and my traffic pretty much kept up with pre-vacation levels the entire time I was gone.