Why stop blogging when you don’t want to?

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Apologies to all if you haven’t heard much from me at this blog in the past week, but I’ve been off sick (had a virus) and haven’t been able to get out of bed some days.  Here’s an overview of what happened.

Why stop?

The point is I didn’t want to stop blogging, but couldn’t get out of bed – was in a lot of pain and my head felt like a 10 ton rock.  Most days I didn’t get to the screen and the others I only had the energy (and the vision) for checking my emails.

Didn’t you have a backup plan?

Unfortunately I didn’t.  I had around 8 half written posts in a file on my computer, but didn’t want to make an attempt to finish them as they would probably be crap to read.

I should’ve had a backup plan, but I didn’t, guess what the first job is for me now?

The Results

RSS subscription went down from around 60 to 11 people – guessed it would drop to 1 (as I subscribe to my own feed for testing), but glad it has stayed above 10! yay!

My Entrecard visitors have dropped, most probably because I wasn’t participating on other blogs, dropping cards and posting in the forums my ‘rating’ fell from 110 to 54 in a matter of days.

Readers and comments dropped too, but a good thing I still received a couple over the last week.

What now?

Well, I’m going to be writing content, content, content!  I’m finishing up on a few posts and will be releasing them over the next few days.

I’m creating a back-up plan and a number of finished (but unpublished) posts in the wordpress admin section ‘just in case’.

I’m getting back to entrecard, and my comment posting strategy.

2008 is going to be a fantastic year for me and I’m just finishing my strategic plan – I’m ready to commence battle!

I’ll be twittering away as normal.

What I’ve learned

Create at least 5 ‘general’ posts in draft form that can be published in times of need.

To read more of Problogger’s posts on how to become an effective blogger!

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