Comments on: Sole Practitioner Blogging – What to do When on Holidays?

By: value

value — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:07:01 +0000

I finally decided to give you a little feedback ! well you got it! i love your site !!! no , really, its good…

By: flo

flo — Wed, 17 May 2006 19:22:14 +0000

Why don’t you use the new http://www.blogsitter.net service?
It’s worlds first blogsitting agency and provides guest bloggers in the specific field your blog is in.
Just try it!

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By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 11 May 2005 12:57:05 +0000

Darren, do you want to share any info on how much traffic you get on your blogs from search engies vs. recurrent visitors. You don’t need to say the exact numbers.. I mean that search engine traffic comes in no matter if you are updating or not.

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» Locum Blogging: ProBlogger — Wed, 11 May 2005 08:40:39 +0000

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Wed, 11 May 2005 08:21:49 +0000

[...] Who Will Blog On The Holidays? Darren Rowse at ProBlogger gives his thoughts on what a blogger could do to keep traffic levels [...]

By: John Bradbury

John Bradbury — Tue, 10 May 2005 22:19:11 +0000

One word – elance

Pay a freelance writer to create a series of posts based on the content of your site and have the posts scheduled. This way you don’t get stuck with having to create a mountain of content before you go and you can view the content in advance – unlike having guest bloggers…

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Tue, 10 May 2005 22:03:49 +0000

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By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 10 May 2005 15:39:32 +0000

I like the *from the archives re-runs* idea. Also, don’t feel guily setting up an autoresponder for all the emails. Just automatically send a note thanking them for their email, and that you will not be personally responding to the mass of emails you’re receiving while on vacation. Nobody is going to hold it against you.

By: Mark Boudreau

Mark Boudreau — Tue, 10 May 2005 14:02:42 +0000

I think preparing a couple of longish posts in advance and then scheduling them to post throughout the weeks that you are away is the best bet. Start off by indicating that you are on vacation and that posts will be sporadic so people are aware that you are away. Then unsubscribe from all those RSS feeds and e-mail lists that you are currently subscribed to for the duration of your holiday. Another idea is to schedule some “from the archives” posts which are kind of like television repeats. Re-post some of your stuff “from the archives” for any new readers to read and comment on. Between your pre-wriiten posts and “from the archives” you should have plenty of content. Then go on vacation and actually “go on vacation.” If you don’t relax you will eventually burn out with the unfortunate consequence that you may actually not want to blog anymore because of the stress. Then your income will definitely drop!

By: Steve Kelly

Steve Kelly — Tue, 10 May 2005 13:41:19 +0000

Just returned from 5 weeks in the Philippines, i put a chatterbox on my blog and told everyone i would be away, got a few enjoy yourselve type messages and a few contacts too.. very difficult to blog from where i was in the Phils. as the internet was very patchy and i was too busy on the beach with my San Mig. Hey i was on vacation
Was going to try audio blogging, but as it was difficult to get too my blog to check it out, desided against.. perhaps next time

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 10 May 2005 13:13:58 +0000

For myself, a relatively new reader to your blog, it seems I haven’t even scratched the surface of your blog, your archives seem pretty deep so I would suggest people start hacking away at the archives. Like you said yourself, some articles are still popular, even a year later, like your AdSense article.

I think the tendency with RSS and blogs is that we read the new posts but rarely go back to the archives. There is some serious buried treasure in the archives of a lot of blogs.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 10 May 2005 12:36:28 +0000

Would you be able to write up some posts offline while traveling or something and then just use the internet cafe as a way to upload the psots? I’m not sure about the nature of your vacation but if it includes long automobile/train/airplane rides it could be possible. Of course, you wouldn’t be able to do any research while you’re constructing these posts which would be necessary for some of your blogs.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:54:45 +0000

One question I’d like to see discussed is- How do you go about creating a business plan for professional blogging. I just spent all morning roughing one out, but it comes down to having to explain to a bank or whoever that you plan to make money from something ephemeral. You don’t really have a product, and if your primary income, like mine, is from Adsense your cashflow relies on something that looks a lot like voodoo (understanding CPM, CTR etc then trying to influence them by just writing stuff? What’s that all about?)
So, if anyone has managed to secure a loan by explaining how their weblog works I’d love to hear about it.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:37:24 +0000

Could be right Jon – although in addition to the addiction part its partly about ensuring the income level doesn’t drop too much while we’re away.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 10 May 2005 11:17:52 +0000

It sounds as you are hooked on the internet. Sometimes it is just good to let go. It is called vacation for a reason, to vacate.

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By: Darren Collins

Darren Collins — Tue, 10 May 2005 03:57:55 +0000

What about writing a series of questions, set to post at various future dates? Tell readers to provide answers in the comments section.

This should work well (for a few weeks, at least) on a blog like ProBlogger, where we all know you’re away and we have enough interesting ideas and people to be able to talk amongst ourselves for a while.

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Tue, 10 May 2005 03:17:50 +0000

A couple very good posts with active comment areas can go a long way on a blog that’s used to many daily posts. Besides controversial advance posts I still haven’t found a decent solution to this problem.

An aside: is anyone else impressed that Darren managed to write this enormous post during a non-blogging time? Talk about humbling…