"That's it!" I thought. "I'm done. I can't think of anything else to write about."
This is the worst thing that can happen to you if your entire
empire is built on words. In addition to being one of most
widely published authors of free content this year, I'm also a
published, award-winning poet.
If I can get writer's block, anyone can. The question is - what are you going to do about it? Are you going to sit there and squander
the possibility that you might get passed over by the search
engine spiders because you didn't make your updates during that crucial
first six weeks of blogging?
Or even more importantly, lose the spot your frequent blogging got
you because you were without words for a week?
Or are you going to grab your pen and write yourself a
fortune?
I don't know about you, but I can't
afford to let writer's block stop me. The Googlebot is at my
site every day looking for fresh content and updates. Every time I
can use my blog and RSS feed to bring a client back to my site I'm that
much closer to a sale.
If I can't think of something to blog about, I know I won't be
able to think of something to write an article about for more traffic,
and I sure won't be able to start my next book or ebook.
Since frequent business blogging is becoming so critical to the
success of a web site, I decided that I had to make
it work, no matter what I felt like that day. Something had to be
written, and in more than one blog most of the time.
So I did what many scholars do when they have to pass with flying
colors.
I decided to make a
cheat sheet.
That's right, not only did I...
- put together 75 topics
appropriate for almost any site to blog about,
- make myself exercises to jog my
memory,
- create topics I can slightly alter and
re-use over and over
- find a way to make each one relevant
to multiple blogs
- innovate techniques that can keep me
blogging even at my most stumped
- ask open-ended questions whose answers
work on any of my blogs for more content.