What diet is your blog on?
Is it the Atkins Diet – loaded with protein and fat; or is it the Jenny Craig diet –processed and prepared for you; or is it the Weight Watchers diet—counting points and tracking; or is it the New Year’s diet—gung ho for a short while and then loses its momentum?
Blogging, just like dieting, takes dedication, diligence, planning, and follow-through. It takes an open mind to change habits and give a new perspective on the same old thing. It takes time, a lot of time, to build an audience and keep them coming back for more. It can be frustrating and a huge let down if you watch the numbers daily. Just like weight loss, it is not all about the scale and blogging can’t be all about the numbers either.
- Atkins Diet – A blog full of protein and low carbs can leave you craving something sweet. Is your content full of facts and no personality? Does it leave the reader craving something more?
- Jenny Craig – Restricted and only their processed and boxed food. Is your blog strictly about your own niche? Does it leave your audience with just specific lists of someone else’s ideas or do you interject your own personality and choices into your posts?
- Weight Watchers – Lots of Counting and Tracking. Do you spend a huge amount of time counting and tracking your stats? Does your writing shoot more for the numbers than the quality of your content.
- New Year’s Diet – Does your blog and your content start out with a bang and then lose momentum, leaving you scrambling for motivation? Build your blog, with your unique writing style and quality content will win the readership and grow your blog more successfully than going all out and losing its stamina too soon.
A blog needs nurturing and self-care just like a plan to lose weight. Sticking within your niche can be just like some diets. Restrictive! Yes, write content geared toward your niche, your passion but explore other “niches” to truly make your blog grow.
A healthy diet is a balanced diet. Choices from all the different food groups, stepping out of your comfort zone, building relationships-including a few with some not-so-like-minded people who push you to view things differently and determining what you like, what you don’t, what works and what doesn’t, for you.
A healthy blog is a balanced blog
Choices from all the different niches, stepping out of your comfort zone of expertise, building relationships with bloggers who know about things you never experienced, taking that lesser known niche and putting it into your own perspective and own style will give your readers a treat, a new experience, a whole new way of looking at things and spice it up a little.
Do you judge a blog by its niche or its platform? Choosing a passionate topic for your writing is a key element to blogging. That said, exploring, following, and learning from a different niche can change your blogging lifestyle. It’s like eating from all the food groups. Filling up on the fruit and vegetables, but allowing for the meat and potatoes once in awhile.
Make your blog a special treat for your readers
Make it the icing on the cake once in awhile. Step outside your niche for a couple of days and come back to your balanced diet of your own niche. It will give you a new perspective and a new motivation for your blog. It will give you an open mind and give your readers something other than the same old topics that they can read from any other blog in your niche.
Diets, just like blogs, come in many forms . Let your blog be the one that gives them their cake and they can eat it too.
A well balanced blog, with a little cake thrown in as a treat, will reward you. You will reach an audience that may not have come to your regular meal plan but certainly will come for dessert! In the end, the numbers will reward you.
A guest post by Julie Hubert. Read more from Julie at Big Girl Bombshell and We’re Not in Oz Any More. Want to guest post on HowToMakeMyBlog? See more info here.
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