Written on June 5th, 2006 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse
How to Blog on Slow News Days
Andy Merrett has a post on how to Blog on slow news days where he gives a few options of what to do on days when there is very little happening in your niche:
- Do nothing
- Post opinion / forum / consumer views
- Stray from your niche
- Revisit old news
- Publish an article you’ve written in advance
He writes more on each one – head over and add what you do in his comments.
6 Responses to “How to Blog on Slow News Days” - Add Yours
Michael Hampton
June 5th, 2006 10:47 am
Last week was rather slow, so on Wednesday I published something which was slightly outside my normal topic, and on Thursday I followed it up. I would have published them anyway, since I found them interesting, and they are somewhat related to my blog’s topic.
On Thursday night, both posts were published to slashdot.org. I spent the next two hours getting the machine, which was new and hadn’t been performance-tuned, to behave and handle all the traffic. Good thing, too; on Friday I made it onto reddit.com, and on Saturday onto the front page of digg.com AND del.icio.us/popular, where traffic seriously spiked again. This time the server held up well, thanks to my preparations.
From Thursday night to now, I got at least 120,000 unique visitors and possibly more, made over $200 in AdSense, and picked up a thousand new feed subscribers.
On Friday night, I wrote up a brief look at what I did to get the server to stand up to the oncoming hordes of barbarians, which I hope will be useful to anybody wanting to get 100,000 people reading their blog on a “slow news day.”
Thilak
June 5th, 2006 12:05 pm
Nice article, I used to following #1 until today. But I feel I should follow #5 and #2.
“Most Borring Day to Blog is Sunday”
RinzeWind
June 5th, 2006 5:20 pm
There’s no such a thing as a “slow news day.” Get your digital camera, hit the street… get the news yourself. Prove that “grassroots journalism” is something more than a few words written somewhere.
Andy Merrett
June 5th, 2006 5:35 pm
Like the idea RinzeWind, however it’s still not always that simple. I wish it were. I think #2 in my list covers this to some extent.
Steven Creek
June 5th, 2006 9:30 pm
I have a few slow days because my niche is seasonal. It starts to slow down during this time period so this article was great. I need to try something a little different to get me through the slow times.
AListReview
June 6th, 2006 3:11 am
How To Find Inspiration on a Slow News Day…
What do you blog about on a slow news day? Andy Merrett (via Problogger)came up with five ideas, each just OK, but not particularly inspirational: Do Nothing Post opinion / forum / consumer views Stray from your niche Revisit old……
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