This document provides tips for keeping a blog engaging for visitors and avoiding burnout for the blogger. It recommends reading other blogs and news to find new topics, linking to other blogs to drive traffic, mixing in photos and personal anecdotes, adding interactive elements like polls and surveys, changing the template design, inviting guest bloggers, and brainstorming topic ideas to ensure a steady stream of new content. Regularly monitoring search terms and links from other sites can provide insights into what content resonates best with readers.

1. Blogging 301 Blogging tips to keep your visitors (and yourself) engaged 11/20/2008 Adam Gartenberg www.adamgartenberg.com twitter.com/agberg Team Lead, Social Marketing IBM Data Management Software

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8. So… how to keep things interesting?

10. Monitor who is linking to you

15. Change up your template

16. Bring in guest bloggers

19. Make sure you have a “things to blog” folder or tag in delicious

22. Your turn…

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