Blogging When on a holiday

Its obvious that people want to go a holiday though not often. So what to do when we go on a holiday, or take the example of a student who would have exams every 3-4 months. If we go don't blog for 10 days, then the ranking of the blog can come down, or that many readers who come to our site don't turn up thinking we have stopped blogging or lack of contents... .
You may say that you have gone on a holiday, even then some people may not come. There could be many who would comment on some post and need urgent reply to it, and not getting them can divert them from our site.
So what are the methods that have to be followed to prevent the gap that becomes unavoidable or necessary?

1. Ask your friends or the regular dudes to do guest blogging: - By doing a guest blogging we can keep up the pace of the blog. At least some will not go away. The regular visitors and commentators can be requested to do the job for you in your absence.

2. Special topic: - Announce an awareness to the readers and ask them to participate. Post pictures, videos, articles... about an issue that you are taking up, so that many people can contribute to it as well as giving it some time to create awareness and at the same time you too get the time (as a break or holiday), and both the purpose is served. This not only creates awareness among the readers, but also allow them to comment on a issue and also increase the posts to you blog(be it in your presence or in your absence).

3. A Competition: - Select a topic and ask the readers to participate in it and keep writing their best, and the better one will be awarded (or anything that entices writers in your absence). IF you are an experienced writer / blogger announce the award to be a coveted article that have a good price tag in the market or that you sell through the Internet (or to be subscribed).

But if you are a new blogger, try not doing these unless you have a huge set of writing hands. Another important thing is that when you come back, do comment positively to all the writers, as this keep up their enthusiasm to come back and write more. By encouraging more writers, posts increase and our rank also increases, and we get to know more people in the same industry as we are and also a huge knowledge bank grows.

If we know that we are to leave blogging for a few days, then its better to have few posts ready before hand and post them regularly or ask our friends to do it at regular interval, provided the blog that we write are not news type, where there is an updated news all the time.
We can also have few posts and schedule to post it automatically on certain days (dates), a kind of future timestamps.
Another way that can be done by some tech savvy people is to check them on mobile online and if possible reply or post some.