First off Blogpression is a Blog Induced Depression. Some of its symptoms include lack of blogging,continuing to log into Analytics in hopes that your pageviews went up (without writing any new content), checking bloglines to see if anyone else subscribed to your feeds ( again no new content),bombing technorati with your url, and checking your email on an hourly basis in hopes someone responded to a recent blog posting. There are more. But I will back off on defining it, the symptoms are different for everyone. I don’t need to tell you what you already have. Let’s help get you over it. Sometimes you have no choice. You have to be sneaky, tricky, and well just evil.

1)Open your backpack
First off don’t post everything all the time. Sometimes keep a good post idea set aside in your backpack. Or in your Writely. It really helps. In fact my best posts are usually ones that age for a few days in the backpack. Check them both out they are very valuable blogger’s tools.

2) Hack Bloglines
Back before the internet. I used to read encyclopedias, and the yellow pages. I learned a lot by doing this. One trick I learned was that the business’ that names start with A get called more often. It’s an unfortunate truth. If you want to get a jump in traffic change your feed name from Monkey’s Blog to A Monkey’s Blog. If a good portion of your readers are reading your feed on Bloglines or some other feedreader they have a tendency to read the A’s a lot more than the Z’s. Trust me. I have been forced to do this to test it out. It works though.

3)Feed your ego
One of the best ways to promote your blog for free is write a decent article, or even an average one, or you can take an oldie but a goodie and submit it to LinkFilter,Digg, or Reddit. These places will bring in some new traffic and potentially some new readers. More than anything it will be a quick fix for your ego. Yes people are still reading your blog. But please don’t spam.

4) Change your environment
I blog in a lot of weird places. I have some favorites. Try exploring new coffeeshops. Try heading over the girlfriends house, try anywhere but where you normally blog. New scenery can mean new content.

5) Stop thinking about revenue
Quit worrying about making money with your blog, and start making money with your blog.
Spend a day or two over at Performancing and you will think of some new way to monetize your blog. But it better not be Chitika.

In Conclusion:
Blogging shouldn’t be about dollars and cents. It should be about content. Good content is worth reading. Let’s go out there create some good content, do a little networking, and wallah the readers will come. Don’t stress it. But these tricks do work, and if you do all of them it could increase your normal traffic by as much as *% .

* Like I am going to tell you.

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Battling Blogger’s Block
Using Blog Depression as a tool

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