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Via Web Worker Daily<\/a> I learned about Blog 365<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a nice idea which I heard and did before, and which I think is still valuable enough to bring attention to.<\/p>\n

More and more people are joining the blogosphere every day.\u00c2\u00a0 More and more people ask the same questions over and over – “how can I improve my blogging?”, “how can I get more comments?”, “how can I promote my blog more?”, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 To all of them I answer – Blog 365<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You see, the hardest part of blogging is … actually, blogging – thinking about things, finding things, preparing content, and posting it.\u00c2\u00a0 You can have all bells and features on your blog, and it can be search engine optimized to no avail, but if you don’t publish any posts, nothing will matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Most blogs get lost and disappear because they don’t get updated anymore.<\/p>\n

Now, if you are new to blogging, then posting every day may sound like a hard job to do.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll tell you a little secret – it is, but for just a few weeks. The thing here is to make blogging into a routine.\u00c2\u00a0 Once your brain understands that it has to produce at least one post every day, it will start looking for and creating content by itself.\u00c2\u00a0 You won’t have to do anything, but pick the bits that you like better and write them down.<\/p>\n

I did a “have to publish at least one post every day” experiment a few times myself.\u00c2\u00a0 The longest one was, I think, in 2004 and ran for about a year and a half.\u00c2\u00a0 My posts varied from thoughts, notes, and simple links to somebody else’s pictures and videos.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually, I got it into my system.\u00c2\u00a0 I had no problems posting something every day.\u00c2\u00a0 Even better than that.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a period of time when I felt uncomfortable if I didn’t publish anything.<\/p>\n

Sure, I did my share of polluting the web with crap that nobody cares about.\u00c2\u00a0 But that was all for the better.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are the benefits from the top of my head:<\/p>\n