Switching Up Your Blogging Routine For Just A Day: What Would Happen?

A few days ago, I had decided that instead of car­ry­ing out my reg­u­lar blog­ging rou­tines, I would take a day off and try to do things I don’t nor­mally do. I per­son­ally think that stick­ing to a spe­cific rou­tine in any­thing is for too long is never the best for you, because there are always other stuff you can do that may not work with that sched­ule you set for yourself.

It is also pos­si­ble that you may find your­self becom­ing bored at doing the same things over and over again. Blog­ging is some­thing that is all up to you; you make the deci­sions when it comes to YOUR blog.

Not all of us do the same stuff every day any­ways, we just do what we find is either fun, or easy to do. Of course, some­times we still miss out on the tedious stuff like reply­ing to com­ments and con­stantly pro­mot­ing the blog for example.

My Chal­lenge To You

Because of so many of us stick­ing to a cer­tain sched­ule every day on what we do with our blogs, I want some of you to try and switch things up the next day, or even today as you read this. Do things you wouldn’t nor­mally do, see if they ben­e­fit you and how.

I’m not say­ing for you to totally dis­re­gard your whole sched­ule, but doing some­thing new. There are some things that can;t be ignored and have to be in your rou­tine (like updat­ing your blog).

7 Ideas For Switch­ing Up Your Routine

1. If you only write once a day…
   Take this oppor­tu­nity to start writ­ing a cou­ple extra blog posts today and sav­ing them fir when you can’t write or don’t want to write. It is always very pos­si­ble that this habit can grow on you, because of all the time it will save you in the long run.
2. Get out there even more
   Com­mon blog pro­mo­tion tech­niques are like blog com­ment­ing, forum post­ing, link exchanges, etc. But if you only do those things, then you are miss­ing out on some golden oppor­tu­ni­ties. Try to switch pro­mo­tion tech­niques for the day if you pro­mote a lot, and find some dif­fer­ent ways to advertise.
3. Ignore some­thing you con­sis­tently work on inside of your blog
   Some­times we get caught up in doing one thing on our blog, we neglect to do other things. Take me for exam­ple, I am always look­ing for things to improve my design here. I am never sat­is­fied, and instead of doing other things like adding some plu­g­ins or other activ­i­ties inside my blog — I get caught up in upgrad­ing an already great design.
4. Do some­thing that involves other peo­ple
   Try to use social net­work­ing sites a lit­tle more, and get peo­ple a lit­tle more involved in your site. You can even ded­i­cate your day to noth­ing but using social net­work­ing sites to pro­mote your blog if you want to.
5. Do every­thing you don’t nor­mally do
   If there is some­thing on your blog that you always pro­cras­ti­nate on, then take today and do it. Sim­ple and straight­for­ward: Just do it!
6. Change the way you do some­thing
   Con­sis­tency is not always the key, you need to exper­i­ment with dif­fer­ent things. For exam­ple, I just real­ized that it helps me write bet­ter to write out all of my head­ings first, them write my post instead of just impro­vis­ing the whole way through.
7. Don’t even visit your blog
   Okay, maybe just once. But seri­ously, don’t go to your blog for the day. Focus on improv­ing your blog with­out actu­ally being there. Do your best to bring peo­ple there with­out you actu­ally being on the page itself. Sounds kind of inter­est­ing don’t you think?

My Rou­tine Switch

On that day I decided that I would not write on Blo­gus­sion. Since I have a part­ner, he could cover for me. Not the case for every­one else.

My reg­u­lar blog­ging rou­tine goes some­thing like this:

• Check Stats (Traffic/RSS/Poll Votes)
• Reply to blog comments
• Write a post
• Pro­mote the post a little
• Work on a new feature/improve design

The day I switched, it turned into:

• Check Stats (Traffic/RSS/Poll Votes)
• Reply to blog comments
• Com­ment on numer­ous blogs

I decided to stop all of my reg­u­lar things and so some­thing I don’t usu­ally do, and that’s com­ment on other blogs. This is some­thing that every­one should do a lot, but like I said above — I didn’t pro­mote Blo­gus­sion as much, my part­ner Janith did.

I had a good time com­ment­ing on blogs, and I think it now some­thing that I will be doing a lot more to add to my daily rou­tine. I am going to com­mit to more of these days where I switch things up because of the ben­e­fits of doing it all.

Let me know if you are going to try it out, or if you already do have days like this share your expe­ri­ences in the com­ments section!

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