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What Happens When You Derail Your Blog? « Blog Your Passion — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:27:20 +0000

[...] “Taking Your Blog Off Topic,” I ask what happens when you take your blog off track and publish an off topic post? [...]

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[...] graduation or personal event might be appropriate or it might be completely out of character. Taking your site off topic can be a good or bad thing, so only you can [...]

By: Praveen Rajarao

Praveen Rajarao — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:05:29 +0000

I just happened to write one off-topic post, i am not sure what my readers will think, and even if i lose some of their interest, will wait and see.

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:05:08 +0000

You did a risky and brilliant thing, Sam. Thank you for the inspiration to talk about this. Keep rocking!

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:54:04 +0000

Actually, to use the word ‘mention’ probably does your great coverage of it very little justice…I’m very grateful for your comments!

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:49:24 +0000

I know it’s a bit late, but I’ve only just noticed that you’ve linked to my blogging tips mini-series

Thank you for mentioning it!

Sam

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:30:37 +0000

It’s it amazing how powerful it is to clean up your blog. When presenting workshops on blogging and blog management, I invite long term bloggers to go through their archives and pull out their favorite and most important blog posts in a list. Then I ask them to go through the rest and consider what should stay and what should go. I use the example of cleaning your house dramatically. While it cleans the place up and simplifies your life, you feel a new sense of focus and direction, a renewed energy. It’s almost magical. Good for you to find a renewed sense of commitment by taking on this task!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:08:46 +0000

It’s funny that sometimes the perfect blog post comes along at the perfect time. I have recently embarked on a mission to “clean up” my blog. This involved the very touch decision to remove some older posts that were very off topic.

I think I made the right decision as these posts really did not fit with the spirit of what my blog had become and what it was really about. I think that’s key, your off topic posts still have to fit with the overall tone of your blog, and the ideas you want to convey.

I only ended up deleting a few posts, but several others are slated for total rewrites to make them into something valuable to my readers instead of off topic indulgences. For instance, some time back when my blog was young and had not yet taken on its current and established for as a personal development and lifestyle design blog, I posted a poem I wrote shortly after a breakup. It’s not a bad poem, but out of context it goes against everything my blog is supposed to be about; positivity, freedom, ownership of life, etc.

It also happens to draw a lot of people to my blog, so rather than remove it, I think the best thing I can do is frame it within a context of personal development ideas, instead of leaving it to stand alone.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 20 May 2011 22:51:49 +0000

I completely agree, and glad to include you. Keep up the amazing work!