Have I been missed? I know that I have been absent from the blogosphere for a long time. I been surprised if I even had a readership left. Any regular readers to my blog still around?
I was reading the blog of Benjamin Cip today and he reminded me of the importance of regular blogging in his post “How To Increase Your Blog Traffic.”
I owe it to my faithful readers (if I have any left) to update my blog regularly. For that I’m sorry, but I do have some reasons excuses for not updating.
Here’s my 6 excuses for not blogging regularly:
1. Blame it on Twitter. Too many tweets and not enough time to blog.
2. Procrastination is becoming a bad habit for me.
3. Life attention. (I’m starting to have a social life.)
4. My daughter ( She moved out in June, but still needs her Mommy)
5. Walking (I’m becoming more active. I go for an hour walk each night.)
6. My dog ate my post.
Seriously though, you’d be amazed at the amount of things that keep one from blogging.
They do say absence makes the heart grow fonder and I know that you are all so very fond of me.
Do you have an excuse that keeps you from blogging?
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16 responses so far ↓
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Yes you are definitely missed. I check back here every day for your inspiring words.
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Thanks you for the pingback Rose
You’ve got a really nice blog here. I somtime try to find reasons why I didn’t update my blog. I was planning to write about 3 posts a day, but noticed that I couldn’t post quality articles if I had to write 3 posts… not to mention that I’m running 2 other blogs along with the one I’m using now.
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I’m guilty, too. I haven’t blogged, I’ve tweeted only a bit, finding it easier to be reading, cooking, spending time w/hubby, cleaning, and trying to work on the novel…and the blog (that never had any readers) has been idle. I need to commit. How do we do it? Tweeting, blogging, writing, reading advice, reading books, when is there time?
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Where were you for the past year?
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I just need to balance home, my social life, family, work, school, two blogs, twitting. commenting, writing and two communities. (Soon to be 3) Shouldn’t be too hard.
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I can relate.
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Yeah, sometimes it’s not easy being a blogger, especially when your real life tends to get busy and takes you away from blogging. Currently life has been getting pretty hectic and it’s all I can do to reply to my commentators, but heck I owe it to them as they’ve taken a moment out of their life to leave a comment on my blog.
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 6:38 pm
It’s my first visit to your blog, and will not be the last!
you have a very good and acceptable excuse in my opinion, and what I see is that you are doing a progress in your life Rose! good luck!
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Social life? What’s that?
I can see how Twitter could do you in. that’s why I’m not very active with Twitter anymore. Ditto with Facebook.
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Still here…, er, rather in Colorado instead of Arkansas.
Wrote: Sep 7, 2009 at 9:40 pm
A social life is what I started to have again after I turned 40.
Wrote: Sep 8, 2009 at 10:21 am
Ha.. I like the last reason though.
NO worries at all. We’re all still here. I believe all of us have been through the exact same situation, and still struggling for a balance.
Just keep up the good work you’re doing. It’s always great to see you back in the blogosphere, Rose! *hugs*
Wrote: Sep 9, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I missed you, Rose, but must admit I have been busy also and not blogging as often. I Twitter, but am also using Facebook a lot more, becuae family, friends, and colleagues are on Facebook also. It is good to hear how you have been doing!
Wrote: Sep 10, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I’m still around… sometimes, as I fall out of the blogging habit too.
. Once you start not blogging, it can be hard to get back in the habit. Also real life can be unexpectedly distracting!
Wrote: Sep 25, 2009 at 11:44 am
My excuse is that I do too much Squidoo. I am completely addicted to it.
Maria
Wrote: Sep 26, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I used to be of the rule “blog every day.”
Then that became 20 times a month.
Now I’m somewhere around 14-15 a month.
Do I feel guilty? Like I’m letting my readers down? I mean, as much as I love the attention, I don’t get paid for blogging, and when I say something I really want it to count, not be forced.
So I dunno. It’d be nice to have lots of content to attract readers and search engines. It’d also be nice to be missed, and asked to write. I don’t blame any blogger – especially not a poet – for slowing down the production schedule: if words matter, there are fewer of them.