Dealing with Blogger's Block

It happens to the best of us... you sit down at your computer knowing that you need to write a new blog article, only to tap your fingers impatiently due to lack of subject matter.  What do you write?  How do you start?  It's really frustrating!  Everyone's heard of writer's block, and blogger's block is no different.

So, what do you do?  There are several things.  First, you can blog about your site's keywords, which also helps improve your site's SEO.  Another possibility is to "repurpose" content you've used before.  Maybe you have a newsletter article that you wrote a while back.  You can easily freshen the content, update links and information, and post it to your blog.  That's a quick and easy way to recycle an old idea, and the hardest work is already done.

Another thing you could do is a simple internet search.  Look and see what other sites have to say about your industry and use some of those thoughts to spark a conversation.  Reading other blogs can also give you great ideas.  You can even help your fellow bloggers by linking to the articles you found.

When I was doing some research for this article, I stumbled upon another blog post that I think you'll find helpful.  In it was an extensive list of ideas for people suffering from "Blogger's Block", most of which could be applied to various different industries.  I'm planning to use them to inspire my own ideas and pass them on to clients for their blogging purposes.  Check out the link at the bottom to see this awesome article.

Get those blog posts flowing, and keep swimming along!

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