The Red Stapler Chronicles

By far, the weekends are my slowest traffic days.  It is a up hill battle to average 40 percent of the visitors I receive during the week.  Since I am most definitely an extrovert (feed of the energy of others), knowing that very view people are visiting my blog lowers my enthusiasm for blogging.  Very rarely am I able to produce a quality post during the weekends because of this characteristic of mine. As a result, I feel the need to share the following:  My name is Kevin and I suffer from the Weekend Blogging Blues.  So how can bloggers avoid this phenomena?

1.  Just forget about your blog and do something fun. This really is the best advice as life is too short to waste energy worrying about a blog.  I could end this post right here, but sometimes it rains on the weekend, some of us have crazy schedules and have to work on the weekend (like me), and there are plenty of introverts out there who will only work harder when they are not getting any traffic.

2.  Focus on creating backlinks. Comment on do-follow blogs.  Submit your best posts to blog carnivals.  Register for a couple of blog directories.  Basically, invest your time to create future traffic.

3.  Use the weekends to publish your sponsored or contest posts. We have all seen them–a blogger is getting paid to review a product/site or is trying to win a contest by publicizing it.  Since someone has to pay the bills, these are a necessary evil.  Sure, posting a plug on a weekend will expose it to less visitors (in the short term), but my not really be doing any harm.  I know I have NEVER signed up for a product/site at a blog that I had only visited once.  Why should I trust someone (or give them a free referral) who I don’t know.  My point here is that your regular readers will catch up and eventually read your weekend posts.  These people are the ones most likely to take your sponsored review the most serious and convert your ad.  The other most likely candidate to convert your ads comes via search engine traffic–a traffic that will be 100% blind to the day of the week that the post was released.

4.  Construct a couple of posts that you will release during the week.  This piece of advice is for the introverts out there.  Spend your time writing great posts that you hold back for your higher traffic days.  Brainstorming ideas for future posts would also fit under this category–a tactic I like to use but can’t seem to do on the weekends.

5.  Visit other blogs. Take time to Keep up with the rest of the blogging world and see what topics are currently hot.  I probably visit over 125 blogs per week on a regular basis.  It takes some time to go through all those posts, but I find the information that I gain to be very valuable.  No matter how experienced you are as a blogger, you can always learn from others.

So how is your traffic on the weekends?  Do you bother to post?

Do you do anything on this list or have something to ad?  Let me know!!