It sure is difficult to get things moving after a long break! Be it work, or be it blogging.

Are you also like me, trying out at blogging after a long unexpected avoidable break? Well, everyone else has survived this period at some point of time or the other! So why can’t you?!

Most often it is the “don’t know where to start issue”. Here is a list of things which I intend to do after my break.

1. Read other blogs: It is a social world. You can’t survive confined to your own blog. Find blogs and bloggers who share your interests.

2. Comment on others posts: After finding blogs and bloggers sharing your interests, share your perspective about what has been posted. Let the comments be creative, meaningful and useful to someone else who visits that post later. An interesting comment can invite readers to your blog!

3. Convert long comments to blog posts: If you find that you are about to post a comment that is long enough to be a blog post then, make it a blog post. To have some continuity for your post, share a link to the original post that inspired the article out of you. There is nothing bad about sharing others links on your blog. You are in no way doing any harm to anyone!

4. Stop whining and publish: Are you publishing less and complaining more about your writing style or lack of content? Write whatever comes to your mind. Anything and everything. Just let your mind on a rampage. After you think you are done (say around 2 pages, you set the limits!), get up, go for a walk, watch some serial, clear your mind and come back. Sit down and read the article from the beginning. You will get the topic to rant about on your blog!

There are 4 best ways I found to put myself back on track

How was your comeback? Care to share?

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The final few months of 2009 wasn’t good for my blog. Readership and Viewer-ship simply fell. The last week, nobody visited my blog. Yes zero visitors.

I would love to add the statistics graph to show you, but at the moment I am short of photo manipulating images (or I don’t know what to use on this computer I am using.)

And I came to know of all this because I installed WordPress Stats. Yeah, it wasn’t there by default, had to install it manually.

But because I installed it I came to know of several other fancy stuffs.

One was this blog’s birth. I had totally forgotten that, I started blogging in this domain in April 2009. I have been active in the blog-o-sphere for quite some time. I used to blog at Novice Investigator.

I visited my old blog’s dashboard. Startled to see, that blog got greater number of viewers than this current one.  Content indeed is king.

Another thing I noticed was the “Busiest Day”. 316 viewers and it was on my Birthday! Surprise Surprise!

I had viewership between 1000 and 1500 during July, August and September. The time when I was blogging actively. Should have stuck to it.

Enough of what has passed. It will soon be a new year. With the new year comes new resolutions!

My first resolution for 2010 is that I will manage my time well and use it productively. I have returned, with a determination, to blog.

Happy Holidays!

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I am facing it yet again. Yes, the same scenario that left my earlier blogs to die. I can’t let it happen again. I…. must…. blog….

I know what you might be thinking now. This article might not be worth reading, it might be just another, ‘bump’ post just to show others that the ‘blog ain’t dead’.

Of course, this blog isn’t dead. Neither is my desire to express myself through my blog.

Though I haven’t been blogging, yet I have been surfing and reading a lot. And humor being something which everyone likes I ran into several humor specific blogs, especially desi ones (I mean by Indian Authors and mainly about India and Indians).

Who doesn’t like to catch a laughter and release some steam.

9gag

9gag is a collection of pictures, comics, videos and text (very less of this). A collection from different parts of the world and created during different occasions. The collection will leave you laughing. Check it out!

The Secret Journal of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

This is one “fake” Rakesh guy. Go read the blog. It will tell you all.

Doing Jalsa and Showing Jilpa

This blog by one Mr. Krish Asok, is again a humorous take on different incidents in life. Humour again.

Fly You Fools

A comic blog. Full of comics, made out of a collection of pictures of Indians, styled out in a beautiful way and also garnished with humorous dialogues! Totally Desi!

Off the Record, On the Net!

There are many ways to review movies. There are many ways to spoof movies. This blog shows yet another way. There are lots of information on the internet. Reading articles sometimes becomes irritating. And long articles makes me close the tab. But in this blog, the post is long, but is entirely in a comic fashion, with crude stick images. A fun way to know about the movie, before deciding on spending some bucks on it. Totally Bollywood though.

Well, that’s five amazing humor blogs for you to devour this festive season! Laughter some say is an instant vacation!

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

It’s midnight now. The night is calm. Signing off for today!

And Merry Christmas! Have fun this festive season.

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Two things are essential for a blog to survive. One is posts, and the other is readers. Posts make readers happy and bring more readers. More readers means the author is happy, he writes quality articles. That brings more readers. So its a two way process. One action is reciprocated by the other.

The world is a blend of people with different features. The difference should be there or else life will be boring. So you are different from every other blogger around and the readers reading your blog are different from those reading other blogs.

By knowing what your readers think, you can in fact double the time your blog visitors spend on your blog. And your readers, think exactly in the way you think.

I don’t like reading articles that run into pages. I prefer it to be short and shouldn’t force me to run searching for a dictionary. And graphical representations like pictures and mind maps, make it easier for me to grasp the articles content. So I search for more of such articles. And the next time I visit that blog, I may even read the lengthy articles!

So, there is a possibility that visitors to my blog too like the same. My articles shall be short (if they aren’t How To’s or Tutorials), and including graphics is a bit painful in wordpress (Am lazy, and don’t want to do all that uploading of images etc.). I have found Posterous to support all that I want, and it’s easy too!

So by realising what you like to see and read online, you can satisfy your readers, and get visitors to become readers and later on subscribe to your blog! Observe yourself and you shall obtain your answer.

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I was planning to post this as a comment here. (Corey suggests to STOP blogging!?)  But it was better to post it as a blog post I thought. It’s about why blogging at multiple places, just because they belong to different categories, isn’t always a good idea.

If you are simultaneously blogging on multiple blogs (read as more than three), then you better stop. Being a jack of all trades just isn’t enough. Make sure you a master in at least one.

There have been successful bloggers (like Darren of problogger), who after succeeding in their first blog, went on to make more. But they made sure that they enjoyed blogging on those topics.

It’s better to blog based on a particular niche. So when you have a galore of ideas and they are seem irrelevant, then you feel like creating a new blog for that niche. Good idea, but sorry it will leave you burnt out early.

Be a master of integration. I started with a free blog where I penned down everything. Then I published posts relating to the web, computers and Linux. Typical tech related stuffs. And for general topics and philosophy I started several other blogs. But multiple blogs just didn’t work. I kept to the tech blog and posted only tech stuffs.

Soon I put a stop. But so many thoughts and I wanted to vent them out. I restarted from scratch, this time on a self hosted blog. And though initially I blogged everything, I kept to tech stuffs (wp tips, hacks, linux, social media, tech that caught my interest and made me curious). I carefully created categories (but still am not satisfied), so that it helps my audience to reach my content easily.

But then I felt that I should pen down my thoughts about life, the people around, the government, the education system etc, and that’s when Posterous came to my needs. It was easy to post by sending emails. It was a new and interesting concept. I have started blogging at Posterous, my personal blog, This ‘n’ That. The place where I vent out the other side of my thoughts.

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