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Many niches have their own blog posting frequency. Some has been set by their powerhouses like the tech niche by Techcrunch and Engadget to be fast-paced. Whenever you wanted to start a blog, the natural posting frequency of a niche is one thing that you want to do your homework at.
High pace blogging is what we are going to discuss about today. High pace niche such as the tech niche and the make money online niche are very saturated and yet, many don’t encounter a success because of the fast pace.
Reasons Why Fast Pace Blogging is Fatal
There are a whole lot of reasons with most of them causes viral effect, leading your high pace blog to a death of blog.
- You will be very busy
- You will be pressurized
- You can’t afford to slow down
- You will give up really fast
- You have lots of competition, with some blogs having more resources than you
- You must be a good multi-tasker
An all in one reason will be it is hard, will give you pressure and in the end, you will be giving up with all efforts thrown into the sea. Many jumped into these niches or make their blog expand on a high pace without having proper research and understanding of what will they face as consequences.
In the end, giving up is the last thing you want in blogging because everyone is moving forward, FAST!
Tips to Survive in High Pace Blogging
The tips I am going to provide are vital, if you can’t do at least 1% of them, don’t dive into a fast moving niche. You will be bombarded with work and your body might be pushed over the limits!
Let me get the ball rolling and after that, I hope you can share your thoughts with me.
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Don’t go in
After reading this article, if you realized that you are not having or don’t have the chance of having or practicing the tips, you should consider some other niches out there or slow your blog down.
It is not rational that you encounter a boom in your blog, everything seems to be great and in the end, it is you yourself that is causing the blog problems.
Be an expert
No one will blog on PHP programming with original contents any faster than a PHP programmer. If a niche is moving very fast, the last thing you want to happen to you is having a dead brain on that niche.
You must know the ins and outs of the topic you are blogging about. The small bits can be brought up on your blog and the great thing about being an expert is that people will come to you for assistant, which indirectly gives you a content to blog about.
Team of writers
Many out there wanted to guest blog for other blogs or get paid for writing like me! When you pay for something or accept people to write for your blog, all you need to do is to review the work done, provide advices and pay the money (if applicable) which is much more easier than writing for your blog yourself.
Huge blogs with high blog posting frequency hires people or have a line of writers to write for them. Darren gets Skellie to write on Problogger and Techcrunch has several writers to cover the wide tech niche for them.
Get into a sub-niche
Getting into a wide niche with a lot of things to cover can be very tiring and worse for some first-time bloggers, they must do everything on their own. Sub-niches don’t just give you more targeted readers and less competition, it also let you cover less things over a period.
The number of happenings on the Internet is significantly higher than the number of happenings on social media and the number of happenings are even lesser of when your blog is about StumbleUpon.
Subscribe to fellow niche blogs RSS feed
You don’t get original information from you yourself all the time unless you are a blogger cum journalist. Continuing the buzz from other blogs and rewriting an event by adding in your opinion can cut down a lot of work.
To get such news sent to you from all the related sites out there, subscribe to the RSS feeds. I would say the more the better. You will be waking up every morning, "breakfast" will be served and all you got to do is to choose a few interesting buzz, write it in your own words, add in your opinions and you will get the ball rolling!
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Networking with blogs, bloggers and readers
This is very crucial in getting the latest and unpublished news for your blog. When you have developed a fantastic relationship with fellow bloggers and your readers via interaction, you will find them contributing you with tips for various reasons – a linkback, your opinion and even cash!
They might also provide their own opinions and all these will make your writing tasks much more easier since you are provided with the idea.
Know your limits
It is important to know your limits. Remember, when you started out blogging, you set the tone of your blog and the blogging frequency is set after two or three weeks. Know your capacity on posting. You, full of energy, might be posting a few times a day at the start but after a few months, you might be bored of blogging and you will decide to slow down. The cost here is that you will be messing around with your blog posting frequency and risk losing your readers!
Know your capabilities and provide estimates for unpredicted events before deciding which blog posting frequency suits you the best. Keep the frequency up all the time, make your reader know what to expect every time they return and your blog will improve in terms of stats.
Efficient writing and use of language
Bloggers can have average, below-par and great language, mainly English. It is no doubt that all people can blog with a language. However, your flow of thoughts on what to type when working on an article will greatly depends on your language command and vocabulary scope.
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You will not stop to think for the best adjective to describe an object or spare a lot of your time cleaning up long and crooked sentences. Keeping the time on writing a new article short is very important in fast pace blogging and thus, read a lot to get a better command of a language.
Set yourself free
Give yourself some time to rest over the period of blogging. Get yourself a guest blogger as written above. If you are not allowed a break, blogging will become very tiring and boring, especially if your blog is in a fast-moving state.
Giving yourself a free period will let you see things that can improve your blog. Small things such as suitable new plugins and minor blog tweaks can often be identified when you have a blogging idle time.
Rotation of work
If you have a few writer on board, you can always rotate the work done by these members. For a certain period, they might be writing but for another, they might be reviewing the posts written by others. This will free up the creative mind that will spark new ideas which doing the repeated tasks won’t.
If you are alone, don’t type all day long even if you are writing on a fast blog. Do something else once every three hours. Don’t forget that you need promotion for your blog, maintenance and readers interaction in order to make your blog a truly good blog.
Motivate yourself
It is always good to get some motivation to keep you going. Monetize your blog so that money can help motivating you. Interact with readers who commented to know how much people care about your contents. Also, try getting yourself ranked with other blogs like what I did for this blogging tips blog to get listed on Top Blogs About Blogging.
Motivation will not be the same in different niches but a good motivation is the element that can keep your blog up.
Thoughts on Fast Pace Blogging
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A high pace niche is cruel, especially when it is saturated and no one will care about your blog even if it fails to get any readers because it is like a fight, a bloody one.
If you don’t have the pre-requisites, don’t jump into the fray and get yourself killed.
What will be your thoughts on fast pace blogging? Imagine yourself typing 3-5 articles for your blog daily. Can you maintain the consistency? What will be the problems that you will face and what steps that you will take to turn around such blockages?
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What will be your thoughts on fast pace blogging?
Totally very time consuming and tiring!
Imagine yourself typing 3-5 articles for your blog daily.
Been there, done that, I think.
Can you maintain the consistency?
I don’t think I can.
I need to work at office for 8-10 hours per day
Sleep for 6-8 hours per day.
Remaining 6-8 hours for other activities.
What will be the problems that you will face and what steps that you will take to turn around such blockages?
I think the only problem is time.
Proper time management for me to turn around such blockages!
Now I only blog when I have the inspiration to write something useful. Anyway, I have a couple of blogs…so, I am never lost on inspiration, just short of time. So, I take my own time with no pressure. I am not blogging for my rice bowl
@ Deimos
Just imagine when you are entering into a time block where you should be commenting on other sites or playing with social media, a hot news come in. You will be typing again.
@ pablopabla
The consequences of building pressure to blog is something that leads to many people quitting this wonderful hobby.
I thought I read somewhere that you have 5 blogs? It is double of a couple!
To be honest, your level of productivity is what I should learn from you (having 5 running blogs!).
Doing picture post is easy…. can do 5 in like 10 – 15 mins……
Anyway, blogging too fast and your readers might not have a chance to catch up.
I do come by some blogs that have like 100++ articles posts per month.
It’s not difficult to do that when your blog is
1. handled by more than 1 soul
2. just takes news from somewhere and post it, add a little comment here and there.
The harder blog to blog frequently would be a blog like mine, where contents are produced from scratch. Doing reviews takes time.
Same goes to wayneliew.com, as you can see Wayne’s articles are elaborate and in my opinion one of the better blog guide / tip sites around.
I personally prefer niche blogs to have quality posts than a bunch of simple comment or notification on stuff like new Firefox version or what Microsoft now promotes.
Totally agreed that fast pace blogging is time consuming…
Although you only make one post (at here) per day, but it is a long article~!
Good to see you still doing very well on it~
Actually, more than 5 if you include sites which I am trying to “affiliatise”…LOL! Those are not considered blog…more of money making machine (if I can get them running properly). They are new experiments of mine
Yeah, I agree. Fast paced blogging isn’t a one man job. You need to have a large writer base to do it on your blog. Otherwise, as you said, you’ll just burn out. I’ve been to fast paced blogs which are one man shows are their posts highlight the fact that they are forcing the posts…
Really, even imagining writing 5-6 medium length posts a day gives me a headache.
I really couldn’t produce lots of posts per day for my blog, regardless of how long they are – I try to keep mine to a decent standard, i tried blogging a new post on a daily basis to start with and it ultimately hurt me – I couldn’t maintain a high standard – I made the decision that for me “less is more”.
@ kljs
It is important to get the authority status before moving fast. However, tech blogs tend to have little comments but lots of RSS subscribers because they move really fast.
@ goldfries
100+ posts per month is common but 100+ quality posts per month is total madness.
When I am reading your comment, I only notice the fourth paragraph.
@ Sean
Thanks but it is not actually one post a day here already. Hopefully, it will be one post per day again next month. I suffered a dead brain this month as posting and replying to comments is very slow from me…
@ pablopabla
Wow, I have a few money making machines a well but they are not making money.
@ Ruchir
I have to agree that from the surface your readers will know that you force yourself to produce the blog posts.
To go onto the funny side, the readers might felt guilty because they are causing you all the trouble by having you posting so many posts daily.
@ Zath
Quality over quantity is what readers want perhaps. However, if you think of a tech blog which the aim is to provide the news and the buzz, it won’t require them to produce a good and long post because all they have to do is to describe the situation.
It’s good to learn at a considerable pace.