Have You Lost Your Blogging Mojo?
I have a confession to make… I’ve lost my blogging Mojo. If you see it someplace near you, please be gentle with it and return it to me via Express Post (or read on to find how you can win a PD book from Amazon). To help you find it, here is a short description: it’s fiery red in color, somewhat studious, always in search of inspiration. At best, the Mojo is primed for action, ready to finger-bash the keyboard at over 100 words a minute; at its worst it is a frustrated entity with a lack of desire to fire up the blog editor…
Does my blogging Mojo sound familiar to you?
How about your Mojo?
What drives you to churn out blog post after blog post without traffic, sales and people commenting? With the rise of meta blogs (those are make money blogs for the uninitiated) came the idea that having a blog must be cool. Thousands upon thousands of people come online with the idea of wanting to make it big with their blog, then somewhere along the way they lose their Mojo.
I see it happen all the time. Heck, I stopped counting the number of clients who’ve ordered a WordPress blog package from me and then one month later they have packed up shop for good – because they stopped caring for their blog. They among thousands of others have also lost their Mojo. Perhaps they NEVER even had it – it was just a flutter of inspiration that had them belief that blogging was the cool thing to do.
Blogging is serious business for some, fun for others
Before you even join the growing number of failed bloggers do yourself a favor and ask yourself “why.” Why do you feel the urge to start a blog? Are you doing this for fun, or business?
The answers will guide you to a better start. Once you can clearly define your blogging purpose it will be easier to come up with a schedule. Trust me on this.
Mojo madness
When your Mojo is in prime blogging mode you will churn out post after post, almost on autopilot. You’ll feel like a freaking robot on steroids, and no amount of distraction can get the better of you. This is blogging done at its best. In order to protect that state of mind you need to nourish it, feed it with good input. Do not make the mistake of tempting your Mojo with “cyber fast food” because that would be committing blogging suicide.
Magnetic blogging
Magnetic blogging is done with the help of your primed-for-action Mojo. If you want to keep your blog fun, interesting to read, informative, and entertaining you need to be able to stand out from the masses of other blogs on the Internet. Get creative, fire up your Mojo and get blogging.
Rock on!
Monika
PS: The first person to find my Mojo will win a personal development book of his/her choice from Amazon. Please use the comment section to show me your sightings (best creative answer will win). 
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I think your blogging mojo is your full time income you are generating from blogging.:) LOL… Hope I’ll win…:)
Vince´s last blog ..How To A Choose Blogger Template
LOL Vin, you certainly are the fastest to reply. You are of course right about my income. Blogging is part and parcel of it. Needless to say I haven’t lost my mojo just yet, just trying to stimulate some conversations.
I will declare the winner in a few days, see whether some more people care to look for my blogging mojo.
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“Blogging is serious business for some, fun for others”
The ones with true mojo consider it both.
Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Have You Written Any WordPress 30 Feature Posts
Too right Dennis. Fun it is.
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Of all the Millions ? of blogs created in the last few years only a small percentage are still regularly active. By regularly I mean at least once a week posting.
Your post helps to the answer the why for this.
Post after post with few readers and you are not making any money from the blog, it can seem pointless.
And then rise of Twitter.
Why spend 30 minutes on a blog post when you can just spend 20 seconds of time to tweet the gist of the post?
I think those persist in blogging have to love it.
Cheers!
Russ´s last blog ..Tatuajes Ultravioleta y Luz Negra Carteles
I lost my blogging mojo too!
It started with WordPress blog site problems. I said, not again and I really don’t want to spend more time and money trying to fix it or looking for someone I can afford to fix it. Site problems have really put a damper on my blogging.
But also comment spam put me in the dumps too. I really don’t like to spend time trying to figure out spam, ham, trash sites posted in my comments!
Twitter is easier, so is facebook. But on a daily basis I do visit and read a lot of blog posts, so I still love blogs. I just wish I could find my mojo again and get back to work on mine.
Wishing you the best finding your mojo. Hope it didn’t fall in the toilet and get flushed.
Joni Solis´s last blog ..horse-logo-web-sbf Flickr
Hello Joni,
Loved your comment re. “mojo in the toilet.”
In regards to your missing blogging mojo; could it be that you are putting too much pressure on yourself? Maybe you should let up on your need to publish a blog post when you have nothing to say, and cut yourself some slack?
Sometimes we try too hard to achieve something because we believe it to be the right thing. Perhaps you are pushing yourself into a tight corner, when in fact a little contemplation and “rest” might do the trick. What do you think?
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Joni
WordPress is a lot more demanding than most people acknowledge. Installing a blog is one thing. Keeping it updated and dealing with issues is another.
However, the web hosting service you use can make a *huge* difference. I have used three for blogs.
The first host was cheap but could not *ever* get my first WP blog to work correctly. Even the owner spent time on it.
Second host was HostGator. They transferred my sites and got everything working. *But* the people who answer the phone can almost never answer questions. They always want to escalate. They do not really support WordPress, and they shut down sites for weird reasons—or no reason.
I have had the best luck by far at IXWebhosting.com. The tech support guys there are wonderful! They help sort out problems. Only drawback is that it is not a CPanel host, so I can’t use Alex’s autoinstaller there. But believe me, it is worth it. The support is fantastic!
Also, IX gives you several dedicated IP addresses (great for SEO).
I still have many sites at HostGator, and periodically I have to spend hours deleting inodes. Hours! You see, despite the promises of unlimited hosting, HostGator limits the number of inodes (basically, the number of files) you can host.
No one tells you that, but Hostgator will shut you down if you too far exceed the inode limit (and that is *very* easy to do if you have a lot of sites.
Kathleen Gresham´s last blog ..Making Graphics for Fun and Relaxation
Kathleen,
I think you will find that EVERY host has inode limitations. I have few VPS servers and each of them has inode limitation as well, I think the only way you will be able to by-pass this problem is by running your own server or purchasing dedicated one.
Did you find it yet? When reading your post I could totally relate. The summer months are hard to really get fired up about doing blog posts.
I am going to use your words as motivation to rediscover my own writing mojo.
thanks
Thanks Michael, yep it re-appeared out of nowhere.
I’m glad my post was helping you i some way or another. It might be summer where you are, but here in Oz it’s freezing cold.
You know, it is hard to stay motivated. The trouble with blogging is that it takes a lot of time to write something good. Then when you do, if you’re not out making money off of it, it’s hard to measure if it’s helping your personal brand or company or whatever the purpose is.
I’ve got a few blogs about my hobbies, I get good traffic but hardly any comments except those stupid spam comments that have generic comments. =(
Hello James, you are taking pro-active measures to increase your real comments though by doing what you do here – comment on other people’s blogs. Bloggers often act in an “eye for an eye” kind of way. If you do your rounds on other people’s blogs, leaving great comments, chances are they return the favor to you.
Writers Block or Bloggers Block? Ive had some experience with this, I had a great blog that attracted alot of hits. Then work got slightly busier and I didnt have so much time to blog, so I started rehashing other peoples news stories and ideas and sadly the quality of each post dropped. This caused less people to naturally link to the content and the blog posts got less exposure. Lesson learned blogging is about keeping people interested and providing interesting content, not content that you think people want to read, content that you want to write and your passion will naturally flow through.
Hello Nigel, great answer. I totally agree with you on this 100%. I think blogging has to come from your gut, and not from some pre-mediated source. I notice this myself when I get stuck at times. I usually walk away and then find my mojo a short time later by thinking about anything but blogging.
Hi Monika,
Looks like you found your Mojo but I think I know where it was hiding. While vacationing in the Virgin Islands, I could swear I saw an entire group of Mojos sipping on pina coladas.
I think all bloggers go through a stage of writers block but in most cases it always seems to return. Sometimes you just need to get away from it and not pressure yourself to write. It’s amazing how well a “cooling off” period works for many people.
I blog because I enjoy it and enjoy helping others. Any income from blogging is a nice bonus. I’ll probably keep on doing it as long as the “fun factor” remains.
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Hey Robert, I just decided to make you the winner of the free book. I loved your creative answer. Virgin Islands huh? Well, I can’t say I would be upset if I had to fly there to grab my mojo, and while I’m at it, I might as well have a drink too.
I’ll send you an email to arrange for the delivery of the book.
Cheers
Monika
Monika Mundell´s last blog ..Join The VIC Membership
It is easy to get overwhelmed if you start too many blogs (Ask me how I know.) or if you start blogs on topics you are not really interested in.
But I think enthusiasm comes and goes for most topics. I fill in with automated posting. Not perfect. It works better for some topics than others. Still, it helps keep blogs alive while you deal with Life, the Universe, and Everything.
I would spend more time on my blogs if I *were* making a lot of money on them. I guess it’s a chicken-and-egg thing.
Kathleen Gresham´s last blog ..Making Graphics for Fun and Relaxation
Ha, well if you’ve lost yours, then mine ran away! Blogging can seem a little unrewarding at times. Someone said to me the other day that it’s like going to the gym. You don’t get instant results, but you will eventually.
Hey that is a great analogy Gareth, I couldn’t have said it better than that. Keep it up though, it will pay off if you stick around and have something to say to a group of people who want to hear your voice.
Haha, I know just what you mean. I am not making anything near a full time income from my blogging and I would have to say, the only thing that kept me from “losing my blogging mojo” was knowing not to take on more then I could handle; by limiting myself to several topics and blogs per week, I was able to maintain the quality and frequency of my updates.
I’m sorry I missed the contest, but like this thread and wanted to post anyway….
Blogging Mojo is an art and a lot of hard work. It takes a dedication to produce good content worth reading by others.
Of course, many blogs are not just “for fun” ventures. Your Mojo is the noney results your blog creates.
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I decided to start a blog about something I’m passionate about: yoga. If I can make some money off of it, that would be great too. But I’m really doing it just to share with friends and family about the things that I enjoy.