Mr. JavoAs human beings, sometimes we have not ideas, until the point that we could think for an hour, and nothing would cross our minds… When I started blogging, I thought that I could not do something useful beside writing. The experience has taught me that you can do several useful things beside writing, changing my mind and making me the blogger I am now.
So in this kind of days, you have many alternatives beside writing, which you can do as blogger. The following one is a list of things that you can do when you have nothing to write:
- Make New Friendships: This is a very important thing that you should do always, but even more when you have nothing to write. There are people in my profiles who added me and we have not exchanged more than a welcome message. So I can imagine that you have this kind of people too, so you could talk with them by email, instant messenger or by phone, and attempt to make a good friendship. This way, you will get more people coming to your blog.
- Monetize Your Blog: You can optimize your blog to make more money than you usually do. Searching another programs beside you use, you can try and test another alternatives to make money online. After a time, you can choose these ones which are more productive for you. I usually do this by visiting blogs like ZacJohnson dot Com, usually Zac is trying different programs to monetize his blog.
- Check Your Blog’s Statistics: This is a good one, though many bloggers get obsessed with that. Is nice to see all those statistics that SiteMeter or Google Analytics can provide, such inbound links, outbound links or daily traffic…
- Answer Your Emails/Comments: This is something that you need to do everyday, but sometimes you have some pending comments that you never replied, and probably these people are waiting for you. So you can take this kind of days when you have nothing to do, to reply the comments on your blog, to reply your emails, invitations or requests. Is very important to make your readers feel important for you, otherwise they will not come back for more content, or at least, not often than they usually do. Another thing you can do related to the comments, is reread them! You can learn something new by doing this…
- Visit Other Blogs: Again, this is something that you need to do regularly, but specially if you are on stand by. It is very fun for me to visit another blogs, I really enjoy reading and sharing my opinion about the infinite topics that you can find in other blogs. Also, you can visit another blogs to get the inspiration that you need to write something, like writing a post in response to another one…
In addition of this, there are many miscellaneous things that you can do, such dropping entrecards, reading your subscriptions, redistribute your widgets in your blog to get a freshest look…. Whatever, there are several alternatives, you just need to find something that you like to do! I would be glad to read your experiences related to this topic, don’t doubt on commenting! 
Happy Rambling
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Good post and good advices. Thanks
excellent article useful tips - thanks
Great list. I remember I made a similar post around 4 months ago.
If you will allow me to share some of my ideas.
1.0 Read your older posts.
2.0 Listen to cool music.
3.0 Take a shower.
By doing this, you may be able to relax your mind and come back again to your blogging senses soon.
Thanks.
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Thanks for sharing your advices Guardian Angel
these tips are very useful to get a good ranking as well good traffic.
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I agree with you and in fact I have been doing those things as well… cheers!
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Very good starter list MJ, impressive.
I also really like Angels 1.0, this is useful on many levels…
Some may need updating as things progress. Always think of future readers who check archives.
You could easily “re-discover” things that worked in the past but were forgotten about as you moved on….see if they still work.
things like that…
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These tips are mostly already in use by most of bloggers but many of bloggers don`t have a clear concept about this so it is helpful.
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Yes that’s truth Madhav, but sometimes the bloggers ( including me ) forget the basics… So is good to remember them!
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These are great ideas. Thanks for sharing.
An other idea would be if you’re talking to your friends or making new friends and if one of them also has a blog in your niche why not invite one or all of them to make a guest post on your blog. Or you could make an interview with one of your friends about a theme in which your friend is a professional and post it on your blog.
Daniel
That’s a great alternative Daniel, guest posts can explode your traffic, getting new readers and subscribers. Excellent idea
I check my Google Analytics stats twice a day
I have to agree with you: building relationship, and make the readers feel important is a primary objective.
I see blogger everyday that rarely answer their reader questions, even with a “yes”, “no”, or “thanks”
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Very nice post, I will defiantly remember these things when I have nothing to write about. Thanks.