Comments on: Summer Slump Solutions – Blogging Survival Strategies

By: Christopher Scott

Christopher Scott — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:06:13 +0000

I agree. I also find that there is a weekend slump as well. Thank goodness this one is a lot shorter.

By: Christopher Scott

Christopher Scott — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:06:00 +0000

I agree. I also find that there is a weekend slump as well. Thank goodness this one is a lot shorter.

By: Terra Andersen

Terra Andersen — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:53:31 +0000

Great advice! I have featured this article on today’s links on my blog. *=)

By: Terra Andersen

Terra Andersen — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:53:00 +0000

Great advice! I have featured this article on today’s links on my blog. *=)

By: Michael A. Stelzner

Michael A. Stelzner — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:25:31 +0000

Chris;

Can you explain the concept of carnavals??

Mike

By: Michael A. Stelzner

Michael A. Stelzner — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:25:00 +0000

Chris;

Can you explain the concept of carnavals??

Mike

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:33:23 +0000

Hi Chris,

Some great points there. I hadn’t even realised there was a summer slump (I’m Australian, I’m living in China and my blog is new).

I think your point about housekeeping is a very important. Any outages or disruptions should occur when a minimum of your audience is disrupted. I used to work for a software company with a lot of school clients and taking advantage of holiday time is essential.

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:33:00 +0000

Hi Chris,

Some great points there. I hadn’t even realised there was a summer slump (I’m Australian, I’m living in China and my blog is new).

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:12:18 +0000

Mabye change is good?

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:12:00 +0000

Mabye change is good?

By: Todd Harrison - LA Headshot Photography

Todd Harrison - LA Headshot Photography — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:56:22 +0000

I think you made some wonderful points. I like the fact about redesigning your site. This is a great chance to make your site look pretty. Also I like how you can write some great content and get it ranked!

By: Todd Harrison - LA Headshot Ph

Todd Harrison - LA Headshot Ph — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:56:00 +0000

By: LAChick

LAChick — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:57:07 +0000

Oh yeah, don’t forget about us antipodeans (cheers Jen) there are at least 20 million of us down here (including the dangerous wildlife) and some of us have heard of the internet

Thanks for the tips Chris – started a question of the week thing today.

By: LAChick

LAChick — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:57:00 +0000

Oh yeah, don’t forget about us antipodeans (cheers Jen) there are at least 20 million of us down here (including the dangerous wildlife) and some of us have heard of the internet

Thanks for the tips Chris – started a question of the week thing today.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:08:24 +0000

Well, I had suspected that I was not alone in experiencing a summer slump. Traffic hasn’t dropped, but growth has leveled off.

Since I haven’t been at home much, though, for the past couple of weeks, I actually appreciate the fewer comments (I try to participate in my own comment section quite a bit). It kind of amazes me how, as soon as I posted the words “I’m home”, comments picked up again. But realizing that it is my friend readers who are still around explains it.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:08:00 +0000

Well, I had suspected that I was not alone in experiencing a summer slump. Traffic hasn’t dropped, but growth has leveled off.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:12:26 +0000

Aha… so that’s why my AdSense earnings have plummeted this summer. This is my second summer blogging, so I guess I couldn’t tell last summer. Thanks for the info.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:12:00 +0000

Aha… so that’s why my AdSense earnings have plummeted this summer. This is my second summer blogging, so I guess I couldn’t tell last summer. Thanks for the info.

By: Roger Anderson

Roger Anderson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:59:18 +0000

At one time I thought that it would not matter what you wrote in the first 60 days of a blog – hardly anyone visits during that time. It seems like you are sayig a similar thing about the summer.

I have since changed my mind on this subject. I now see more and more referrals from Google searches than I did in the first month. What I take from this is that as your visibility rises, more people will find you because of things you wrote in the past not just what you are writing today. Therefore, you need to write today what people will discover from now on.

Perhaps with the greater leisure time one could spend more thought and less typing when creating a post.

By: Roger Anderson

Roger Anderson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:59:00 +0000

At one time I thought that it would not matter what you wrote in the first 60 days of a blog – hardly anyone visits during that time. It seems like you are sayig a similar thing about the summer.

Perhaps with the greater leisure time one could spend more thought and less typing when creating a post.