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.

How To Get more Subscribers

Every blogger will have a dream of getting more visitors + subscribers. They either start writing better contents and useful contents, or start a way of enticing more subscribers to their site. How is this done generally?

Start writing posts and try knowing the links to many people, be it the known circle of friends or the acquaintance's, by publishing in other famous sites the link of the blog. Other method is to link to others and ask them to link theirs to yours. Get backlinks. Comment on some of the other blog in the line of yours, and reply to the comments that you have got.

Few methods that people rarely follow are: -

1. Giving an E-Book: Giving a free e-book for every subscriber to your blog entices many people easily. This E-Book can contain some useful information that makes the visitor to go for it.

2. Create a video: Creating a video and linking to the site gives a boost to the site. Uploading them at Youtube, Google Video... and giving it a link to the blog does the work. This is an easy, free and a better method to get readers.

3. Forums: Forums are a real great tool to the person who is a serious blogger. It can definitely fetch more people to the blog. Important is to retain old visitors + pay full attention to the new visitors. If the new visitor asks few questions politely answer them as quickly as possible, so that the new visitor keeps visiting your site for more answer, and this can really trigger a kind of viral. But AVOID SPAMMING in forums.

4. Guest Posts: Guest blogging is one method to increase more subscribers to your blog, as this can pull many people after you have written useful and good contents in some of the famous blogs. There are chances that there could be some people who would divert some of their readers to your site if they find yours interesting Thats the advantage, cos' you are getting one subscriber who can get more to yours.

5. Direct Contacts: One of the ways to increase the subscribers is to meet the subscribers directly. Talk to them and discuss about it. Give them what they want. briefly discuss on what your site is all about, then giving link of your site ask them to link to it to know more.

GUEST BLOGGING

Are you tired of finding articles for your blog? Are you loosing the frequency of the number of articles? Then allow guest blogging. Allow visitors to submit posts/articles to you. Allow all visitors (including all of them without any registration what so ever) to submit posts to you.

You know that your readers have a lot of contributions to make, but they don’t have a platform to express it. At the moment what they have is a contact form or email contact with you. If you are allowing guest blogging it again requires one to register first and then apply for a position etc. This filters down content and finally only a few make it.
But how about letting everyone contribute articles to you?

There articles is saved in dashboard, and if the articles are good, the admin can publish it. The other advantage is that, all these are saved in the forms of drafts only, except the posts from the trusted users. other drafts, if not found interesting, or if its a spam, can be deleted easily. But the only problem is, if the number of spams are on a high rise, then all of them has to be deleted manually.

Take your blog to the next level:
Many people may not be knowing the addition or the presence of .edu or .gov links to your blog can really boost the ranking, and is the best thing that can be done in SEO. one should know that .edu and .gov links are hard to get as they are in most cases authority websites focussed on information or governmental policies and may not be likely to sell you links or donate one.
One of the way of doing this is, post most relevant things on the topics of your interests. Also some times we need to register with the university or school/college id, and then post it. else, we may end up being a spammer.