Implementing SEO techniques into your blogging has the potential to generate a good amount of traffic for your blog when it’s done right, which can help to result in a higher Page Rank. And that is the ultimate goal of every blogger, isn’t it? Well, that and earning money for writing about what you know and love. By adding SEO into your everyday posts you’ll help to optimize your content and hopefully accomplish both of those things.

So how do you do that?

As a blogger, you know how important it is to have links to your blog out on the web. Likely, you’re already doing many things to get more of those links, including having interesting content that will spread among the social media platforms and writing guest blog posts so you can link back to your blog.

However, there is one form of internet citizenship that you probably haven’t thought about yet: virtual volunteerism. The internet is full of non-profits who need content written and organizations that couldn’t write a blog post to save their lives. There are even online newspapers that can’t seem to fund themselves and need a lending hand. Volunteering in exchange for a byline link or an author’s page isn’t just self-serving altruism, it’s smart.

Blogging has the ability to take up such a massive amount of time as it is that the thought of taking out more time to plan posts ahead of time probably doesn’t sound that appealing. But pre-planning blog posts can actually end up saving you time in the grand scheme of things and make for more well thought out posts that more people are interested in reading. Why, you ask?

Let’s explore.

For starters, when you take the time to pre-plan posts you avoid hitting the inevitable lull that comes with blogging (and just writing in general). It happens to the best bloggers out there: that time when you sit down to write out a stellar post and are hit with… nothing. By having a slew of posts already in queue, or ideas set for each day, you avoid hitting the dreaded writer’s block. You also avoid the rush of “oh my gosh what on earth am I going to write about today!!!” that inexorably comes each morning when you sit down with no plan in play.

Everyone wants their blog to go viral. It’s the ultimate certificate of achievement and the best pat on the back a blogger can receive. It’s also not an exact science. There are no rules to follow that can tell you how to make that sort of magic happen. However, there are definitely wrong ways to go about it. There are things you can do that will garnish only a tweet from your mother, and rightly so.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

Thomas A. Edison

I always like this phrase because I think it can be applied to just about anything, especially blogging. Nobody is perfect and no matter what is your previous experiences or knowledge there will always be something you don’t know. Luckily – you CAN LEARN!

But the only way to do it – is by trying. If you don’t even attempt to accomplish a task you will not be able to complete it and it is especially true when it comes to working with WordPress. While it gets simpler and easier to use with each new version, new iteration - it still requires a certain level of knowledge. And even if you are a techno-geek, there are tasks, associated with blogging you will not be familial with and yet, have to be completed.

Starting a blog is easy, but having the perseverance and commitment to keep blogging regularly is much more difficult. It is common to get burned out when you are writing a blog. You devote so much time and energy to your project at the beginning, and then you just lose interest. Alternatively, you want to keep blogging, but you start to feel like you have said everything you can say about your particular topic. Writer’s block is a challenge every writer struggles with at some point. Both blogging burnout and writer’s block can be helped by taking a break from the internet. It might sound counterintuitive, but turning off the computer occasionally can actually make you a better blogger.