Hiatuses Increasing Aversion Effect
Most blogs die after a few months. Its a fact of life. Some people think it is a matter of writers block - or Bloggers Block in this case - and you can find a lot of great articles on how to find inspiration for your blog and battle BlogBlock.
My guess (and experience) isn’t that people run out of inspiration or things to write about. I think the reason they stop blogging is because of the Hiatuses Increasing Aversion Effect.
This is how it works; let assume you post 3 articles, every day. Then you miss a day or two. Instinctively you feel that your next post should make up for the lost posts and better be pretty interesting. This raises the bar for your next post so you decide to think about it for an extra day. The next day you want to post something again but this time you have an even greater responsibility to write a good post! And the longer you wait, the higher you feel the expectations will be. In other words: The Hiatuses Increasing Aversion Effect.
Guess I overcame that one…
BillyWarhol said,
July 23, 2006 @ 8:03 am
I have discovered the Magic Wand fer Blogging & creating content*
Flickr*
I find it sooooooo Easy to simply rap or blather on about any topic that floats into my head based on the Photographs i’m looking at or People’s comments i’m responding to*
& the real Beauty of Flickr is how Easy it is to Blog the Photos which gives U an interesting Visual Image to go along with plain old boring text!!
Plus U are able to put a Link in Flickr under the Photo back to yer Blog* & hopefully generate some much needed Traffic!!
Any ideas on How to Create Blog Traffic??
Cheers Boris & Patrick! Billy
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
July 23, 2006 @ 8:20 am
Tips for getting traffic to your blog: think of stuff that other people would like to link to. If you blog about someone elses blog than there is little chance people will link to you. But make a list “Top 10 of 10 lists” or come up with an original thought on anything and people will be interesting and blog about you inreturn…