Now Reading ...This is the most dangerous moment every time you have nothing to post about. We will tempt to staying ‘lazy’ and create a lot of excuses to not doing any activities to strengthen our blog visibility.
In the past time, I’d usually think like this: “Oh, I have nothing to post today. I think I should let my last (yesterday) post up for one day and I will not do new post for today.”
Sounds logic for me the time. But soon I find out that this habit is totally wrong! If you share the same thought as mine, then may be this post would help you solve your lazy bone problem and increase our blog visibility in the blogosphere.
When I “really” have nothing to post about, I will evoke my FireFox and start wondering around the web to:
Comment Marketing
This is very-very comment things to do when you have nothing to do. 
I usually wondering around the Blogs of my interesting and Blogs whose topic is the same as mine. Making a comment is the simplest marketing action for blogging. What important is this marketing is actually WORK!
You just need some regular schedule to comment at blogs of your choice and the minor traffic will flow in to your blog. If you are lucky, you may find a good idea to post about in the same day!
Tweak Your Blog
This is the most interesting part. I love to tweak my blog and do some change here and there. If you have a basic skills in HTML, CSS and Photoshop, you will addicted to his activities.
But don’t addicted to it. Tweaking blog, especially the appearance (theme) is a never-ending process. Don’t waste too much of your time on this activities as Design is only about the first appearance.
Tweaking a blog is just about to find a new environment for your inspiration. We tend to have a new fresh idea when looking at a new appearance of our blog.
I will change this blog appearance next month, 9th September. Hope to bring more luck and pillar posts to this post!
Stumbling and Digging and Sphinning
Stumble and digg is my favorite visit when I have nothing to do. From Last week until today, I have stumbled and digg many posts. But not limited to stumbling and digging. I’m also Sphinning around. You know Sphinn right? It’s another BETA version of popular social media site specially made of SEO & SEM blogger.
You will find that I’m supporting both Stumble and Sphinn below every post of this blog.
I spend almost 2 hours every times I enter to these site. Fortunately, this activities give me a bunch of benefits. For example:
- You could make more friends across the niche
- You could find a never-ending list of ideas for my upcoming post
- You could make a record and ready to go to the top Stumbling and Sphinning Freaks!
- You could enjoy the addicting of wasting time in social media site!
- You could help blogger boosting their stats
- Many more
Googling your blog and yourself!
This is the most enjoying activity. lol.
I usually will Google my Blog URL and my own name to see something interesting. Well, the main purpose is to find out if our blog get banned or not. Just to make sure that my blog name and my own name is not dislike by google because of my SEO efforts.
Adding Pillar Post to a Carnival
After published a pillar post for a several days, I will submit it to a blog carnival to share my post to the world. Well, even though you have create the best ever article in the planet, if nobody see and read your post, it’s useless!
One of many ways to promote your article is to submit your blog post to a carnival to receive some minor traffic and inbound-link to strengthen Technorati rank. Although nothing as good as a stumble effect, carnival is better in link-popularity building then a traffic booster.
You will find no serious traffic flow in to your blog. So, don’t hope to see some some in your google analytics stats!
Oh well, there is so many things to do actually! Make sure don’t lazy around and create excuses to not doing anything and laying on the bed. Kick your engine start and begin to do some beneficial action for your blog.
Make a post every single day. promote it. Boost it. and buzz it!
Stumble it!
Del.icio.us it!
Digg it!
Leave a comment
(September 18, 2007, 6:56 am)
It’s better to comment on other blogs when u have nothing to do.
Reply to Online Money(September 18, 2007, 10:32 pm)
Hi, Online Money. I agree. That’s why I put comment marketing the top of my list because it could help you build your channel of small traffic and recognition from other.
Reply to Ken Xu(September 18, 2007, 2:16 pm)
nice list Ken! i realised i’m really addicted at tweaking my blog. That’s a bad one
Reply to JennyHow(September 18, 2007, 10:33 pm)
Don’t worry, Jenny. You will get through this habit when you have know the exact meaning of “the simple, the better”
Reply to Ken Xu(September 18, 2007, 6:46 pm)
Ken I was always curious to do when nothing to do so now you gave so many way to do
Reply to rahul(September 18, 2007, 10:35 pm)
lol! that’s the hard part to staying in the “nothing to do” state. Make sure don’t waste your time for nothing. At least, commenting at other’s blog would help you a lot.
Reply to Ken Xu(September 18, 2007, 7:03 pm)
Nice list there buddy. When I find myself in that situation, I take a nap hehe.
Reply to Brown Baron(September 18, 2007, 10:39 pm)
Hi, BB. Really? Oh, I’m glad that you enjoy your life!
Reply to Ken XuHaving a nap is a great vitamin for our brain to think clear and vividly. Hmmm… No wonder you’ve got a great blog!
(September 19, 2007, 12:30 am)
Nice list ! Ken.
Reply to jamyI wished I live to a day where I can say I have nothing to do :). I said that will be the day :).
I remembered delegating to my stuff when I was in the hospital the day after my stroke :):). My left side was paralised but I still utilized my right side :):).
(September 20, 2007, 2:16 pm)
Oh, Aunty! You should take care of yourself. Do have some “time” to feel the “nothing to do” experience is good for health!
Reply to Ken XuWell, I could hear money dropping into your pocket everyday. So, nothing to do with the “nothing to do”.
(September 19, 2007, 1:07 pm)
Excellent article, Ken! I love to go round commenting and communicating with other blogs - sometimes I feel that there isn’t enough time for that!
Stumbling, digging and all that tagging is really great too - another exercise that I should engage more in!
Stumbled!
Reply to YC(September 20, 2007, 2:20 pm)
Thanks for your continuous support of visit and stumbled, YC! I’m really appreciate it. Communication is the first key for us to work out with our blog marketing. So, It’s great if you have evoke the maximum use of it since the first round of your blog!
Reply to Ken Xu(September 20, 2007, 2:41 pm)
Yeap, the best that u can do is comment in some related blogs or maybe create a extreme hard to do post about something complex
Reply to Prestamos Personales(September 24, 2007, 4:15 pm)
oh wow.. this is a fun list Ken… how did i miss all those wonderful articles of yours?
been awfully busy googling myself 
just kidding of course…. definitely deserves a stumble ……
Reply to pearl