Blog fillers

One thing I experience on a regular basis is to run out of blog topics. Professional bloggers, with my amazement, blog everyday. Sometimes, they post more than once in a day. If only I could, but in all honesty, I constantly find myself at a loss for topics. And to think this blog is not even concentrated on a niche. I hate it when I can’t blog about anything interesting but I do something, to compensate for potential traffic loss. I post blog fillers.

What are blog fillers?

A blog filler is something I might have completely made up. It can also be called a ghost post. What I do is I blog about something in the past or something not really worthy of the front page. Why? Because blogs are online archives. They layout a history (related or otherwise) of the blogger. Sometimes I write a reminder on my phone to write about an event, but due to some circumstances, I completely forget about the post or sometimes even I might have no access to a computer for a couple of days (yes, it happens). I just go ahead and post about something that is already done, of course with a hint of past tense, and pray that the search engines might still pick them up. Or, I post about something out of the ordinary, about anything I feel someone might be searching for.

This is the opposite of forecasting an event – posting about an event in the future hoping that an early post will yield a top position in search engines. My blog is not really a regularly-read blog. I realized that through my statistics direct visits and repeat visits. Although I’m still hoping this blog becomes a household name someday, at least now I have multiple traffic sources which in turn might convert a stumbler into a loyal reader.

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