What’s up webfolk? The last time I posted for the networking blog I was riding high on the stats of the recent months and the validation that I was on the right path to buidling a successful blog network. I was entering my fourth month of consistently writing new posts almost every day and the raw statistics were telling me that I was making a good bit of headway in terms of generating more traffic, getting more click thrus and earning more money.
Then it happened, that thing that happens to most bloggers at some point in their adventure and that is blogging burnout. Writers block is a terrible thing to have when you are trying to keep up a steady flow of new material for 50+ blogs. I went from posting anywhere from 40 to 60 new posts a month to a measely 12 in the month of June and boy oh boy did my stats reflect that slide. Everything went down there was no stat anywhere in my analytics that could show me any different. The success and growth of these blogs and the network itself is dependent upon a daily flow of new content on a consistent basis. When the writing dried up so to did the traffic, clicks and money.
It was not a huge hit in the wallet because I was never making retire tomorrow kind of money anyway but it did drop a good 40% from the prior months. Where as the 4 months leading up to June had seen at least a 20% increase in each month prior to my dry spell. One of the reasons why I made this network so big is because I do so easily get bored when writing about just one subject over and over again. I have tried to do the small niche blog in many different niches over the years and more often than not I get burned out and run out of ideas on what to write about.
That’s why I decided to take a broader approach by branding each blog in a very generic and broad category like the one two I wrote for yesterday which was movies and music. Using a general category allows me to write about so much more within that category and does not limit me to trying to figure out how to write 50 stories about the same type of movie day after day. The becomes a snore fest really fast at least it always has for me. Yet here I am again coming out of another dry spell a whole month has gone by with barely a sentence written over that time.
Somedays I can sit down at the keyboard and the ideas just flow right out of my fingers and onto the screen and other days I will do anything I can not to even touch the keyboard. Blogger burnout is very frustrating and I can only imagine how difficult that must be on a person that is locked into writing as part of their career. Then you are talking about meeting deadlines and earning a paycheck to live which is not the type of pressure I would want on my writing. I mean let’s face it there is not going to be any publishing houses banging down my door to get my ideas any time soon. I am totally OK witht that though I realize that my stream of thought can sometimes ramble from place to place with no real purpose or ending in sight. I suppose that is why I enjoy blogging so much, I can just put down what ever I want good, bad and ugly and all I have to do is click publish and out it goes.
So writers block or as I call it blogger burnout is something I battle with constantly even though I am the publisher and I can post what ever I want. I suppose I am still growing in my writing skills trying to figure out what my true voice is when it comes to typing it all out into a blog. I really have not idea where I was going to end this post so I will just end it here with no closing thought or point to get across. I’m OK with that…..
Until next time kudos to you peruser 
Dave
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