Guilt Free Blogging

How many of you, my fellow bloggers, worry too much whenever you miss a post or when your visitor hits for the day is lower compared to yesterday? How many of you constantly think of interesting topics even when you’re doing your business in the loo? How many of you are addicted to blogging?

Blogs are dominating the search engines and that’s no surprise since millions of people worldwide have become blogging addicts. In 1994, it seems Justin Hall is the only person who got hooked with it, however after a few years, millions of faceless writers are populating the internet providing countless information and thereby making the internet a more liberal place.

Blogs today are more than a personal online diary but rather it is used to promote businesses, a political force, source of income, and as a tool for outreach and opinion forming.  Indeed, blogging has gone a long way from where it first began.

From your very fist post, how far have you seriously become a blogging addict? Below are a few symtoms.

1. You check your blog more than 10 times a day or 10 times an hour
2. You wake up in the morning and check you blog comments instead of brushing your teeth
3. You go watch the latest movies, eat out at different restaurants, travel to different places to blog about it
4. You dream at night that your latest post received a lot of comments from interested readers
5. You are interested in your blog stats graph than the rising inflation graph
6. You are interested in increasing your blog hits more than an increase in your salary
7. You debate in your head, everyday, what’s the most “sellable” topic to write on
8. You go on surf other blogs instead of doing your work and comment on them for you to generate links. NetworkWhoring.
9. You feel proud that your hit counter is increasing despite that it was you who repeatedly loaded your page. (You were constantly checking for new comments)
   
10. You write a post on Blogging addiction
    

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I wouldn’t say that I’m a hardcore blogging addict. However, I am in a mild sense. I am currently developing this blogging fixation. Although my blog is online since 2006, I never really got to focus and admire the wonders of blogs until now since i am very much into the bigger picture of SEO. I am guilty for 7 symptoms out of 10. Go figure.

If you’re seriously addicted to blogging  here are 12 tips to manage your addiction.

1. Admit you have an addiction
2. Decide that you’re not a quitter and will manage your addiction by becoming a functional blogger
3. Select a high quality blog dealer
4. Schedule an hour to research, write, and publish your post.
5. Promote your post time effectively.
6. Spend an hour each week to plan your blog articles.
7. Network for blog vacation days
8. Podcast
9. Hold a contest
10. Break a long blog post into small multi-part series
11. Review Something
12. Make Amends

Read more about managing blog addiction here.

The evolution on the uses of blogs has also made blogging a bigger responsibility for most bloggers.  Blogging is now more than a way to express oneself but it is a responsibility that you must diligently carry on. You join the rat race and you get stuck in this jading routine. So blog for yourself, post when you want to and don’t feel guilty whenever you can’t comment on other sites.