3 Reasons Why Many Bloggers Get Frustrated And What To Do Against It

<br /><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Light bulb blog logo" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzdqR-eEREP666Cs8rucV04W5568iV0fEpKAPety_qVoMrItewjpVFBa-22fFvc6RpmhD40_6Z6f6LyeSDY5OY3tIsuwuswPzsRlM8o0A6uXKIxZ47cDdJLPuSyig8oPSAFlbFukEdls/s320/spice-up-your-blog-tips.jpg" /></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><b style="outline: none medium;">Guest Post -</b> Our host is <i style="outline: none medium;">Saskia Bader</i>.See How To <a href="http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/p/write-for-us-guest-post-for-spice-up.html" style="color: #e34600; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog</a>.<br /><br style="outline: none medium;" />One reason why I have started to research and write about <a href="http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/2012/10/six-top-blog-design-tips.html" style="color: #e34600; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blogging tips</a> is that I really don't like it when good blogs are taken offline just because the blogger became frustrated. So what are the<br />causes for blogger frustration and what can you do against it?<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2722986153844633523" name="more" style="outline: none medium;"></a></div><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Too few visitors</span></h4><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">I know how it feels when you log in to your Google Analytics after a day of promoting your blog and... your visitor count is even lower than usual. Many great bloggers put a lot of work into their blogs and get frustrated if all their hard work leads to no results.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;">My tip:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> Don't give up. I know exactly how it feels when you do so much for something but you only get very little in return. I have learned over and over again that most of the online success happens over time - that could mean anything from 6 months to a few years if you can not spend lots of money on advertising. You may just be one or two work-intensive months away from the readership you want to achieve.</span><br /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Too few comments</span></h4><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Comments are very important for bloggers because positive feedback motivates and constructive "negative" feedback helps to improve the blog. That is why some bloggers get discouraged when they receive too few or even no comments what is absolutely undersandable. But how to deal with this discouragement?</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;">My tip:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> Don't take comments too important as a measure of your blogs success. Especially if you run a tips-, advice-, knowledge- or tutorial oriented blog because people may be busy following the steps of your tutorial or implementing the knowledge you shared instead of staying on your website to leave a comment. It's better when you look at the number of returning visitors as a measure for success because all these people who try out the things you showed them my not leave a comment - but come back for more over and over again.</span><br /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Too Tired to post</span></h4><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Sometimes it is hard to keep up with your regular posting schedule - either you feel overworked, you don't feel like you have anything of interest to share in the momemnt or you just have more important things to do. Don't worry, you don't have to leave your regular readers alone when one of these times comes again.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;">My tip:</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> When you feel productive, write as many high-quality posts as you can but don't publish them all. Always keep some in draft mode as a reserve for the "bad blogging days" where you want to do everything but write a blog posts. This way you still have great content to publish.</span>

3 Reasons Why Many Bloggers Get Frustrated And What To Do Against It

Guest Post -  Our host is  Saskia Bader .See How To  Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog . One reason why I have started to research...

Read more »

5 Content Curation Tools To Help You Build Content

<br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><b style="outline: none medium;">Guest Post -</b> Our host is <i style="outline: none medium;">Marcela De Vivo</i>, here Marcela looks at content curation and some useful tools you can use for it.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.<br /><br style="outline: none medium;" />In a world where content is King, it might be said that content curation is God. This is the hottest trend to come out in the years in the marketing and search engine optimization field. At its most simple, content curation simply means collecting the best content on a particular topic and publishing it with edits, additions, and specific advice.<br /><br style="outline: none medium;" />It is an amazing tactic for gaining traffic, backlinks, and a targeted audience. The best part? You don’t have to do a lot of the writing! Now, that is not to say that it is an easy task that can be done by anyone. You need the right tools and the right attitude in order to make a piece of curated content that delivers massive value to your intended audience.</div><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Scoop.it</span></h4><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9iZwRDcEvu1EHDUwN_nSttHVga8f676g42RIdk4fyRVVrb-7nZxb6rvxdb-VXm4YyEIDT05cgLOEHE9zT__qieqYYefx0TlD_ilr_yU_n6nC6d16Q_FR0pdgrjWt65rbFjR0wxPuwEBg/s1600/ct-scoop.it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #e34600; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="401" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9iZwRDcEvu1EHDUwN_nSttHVga8f676g42RIdk4fyRVVrb-7nZxb6rvxdb-VXm4YyEIDT05cgLOEHE9zT__qieqYYefx0TlD_ilr_yU_n6nC6d16Q_FR0pdgrjWt65rbFjR0wxPuwEBg/s640/ct-scoop.it.jpg" style="max-width: 95%; outline: none medium;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Link - http://www.scoop.it/</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">This website is one of the best ways to curate content at the moment. It has a free version so you can get started for a very cheap price – only your time. All you need to do is pick a section of the website that you have knowledge about and start to add things – articles, blog posts, videos, social media, etc.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Storify</span></h4><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZIueZYL4uehi_QB2B8reuZ1siTmQuZef98B9-6FmGcnfjZyVLeurG-Rea2Rv9bgayFZxAR1guFz_MNzIBEzSgxeJe1Y_XjDZftXIwQY6LbOf4CgFJ2TcZAXQJgDHc5IyWCJKNa8EdaSo/s1600/ct-storify.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #e34600; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZIueZYL4uehi_QB2B8reuZ1siTmQuZef98B9-6FmGcnfjZyVLeurG-Rea2Rv9bgayFZxAR1guFz_MNzIBEzSgxeJe1Y_XjDZftXIwQY6LbOf4CgFJ2TcZAXQJgDHc5IyWCJKNa8EdaSo/s640/ct-storify.png" style="max-width: 95%; outline: none medium;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Link - http://storify.com/</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">This is an absolutely beautiful website that allows you to turn some kind of in person event into an online story. There is no better way to quickly turn something into a piece of online content than to use Storify. You can even add a badge to the events and give them some sort of social group and flavor.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">The ability to export this content to other blogs is going to be the biggest benefit here.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Pearltrees</span></h4><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6x6932ZoVJtEGKTYLAa1mHbwSWRDx4_j6Kakx64TaQK_fRA09sNh1PVQsjBJ8zugJPGA_b8iANrztw_u-dGbZOUJvKPtzV51YQTI0_zMwliCg02Oyo9ysc2yJ2OY_T_Wb2tpupHnIDQ/s1600/ct-pearltrees.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #e34600; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6x6932ZoVJtEGKTYLAa1mHbwSWRDx4_j6Kakx64TaQK_fRA09sNh1PVQsjBJ8zugJPGA_b8iANrztw_u-dGbZOUJvKPtzV51YQTI0_zMwliCg02Oyo9ysc2yJ2OY_T_Wb2tpupHnIDQ/s640/ct-pearltrees.jpg" style="max-width: 95%; outline: none medium;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Link - http://www.pearltrees.com/</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Although this website has a weird name, don't let it turn you off. Similar to something like Pinterest where you can pin an item, this website lets you "Pearl" a website. That means that you can start collecting websites and organizing them into different silos of content. After time, your pearls will become extremely comprehensive – which is the essence of content curation.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Pinterest</span></h4><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjukM6aqmNuHbDcp67Tcf1pKKMxYvrECzInka5cPuZYxkCTgYjCozzNj5unDG22vCrdMMAhEtcOfixLAEGgEbUhOTRsD5Jj9tHYF26glN4iyymNHWm_OHG6330nseb5Jop6qti__rVEtc/s1600/ct-pinterest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #e34600; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjukM6aqmNuHbDcp67Tcf1pKKMxYvrECzInka5cPuZYxkCTgYjCozzNj5unDG22vCrdMMAhEtcOfixLAEGgEbUhOTRsD5Jj9tHYF26glN4iyymNHWm_OHG6330nseb5Jop6qti__rVEtc/s640/ct-pinterest.jpg" style="max-width: 95%; outline: none medium;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Link - http://pinterest.com/</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">If you haven't heard of Pinterest yet, it's time to get your head out of the sand. Pinterest is the absolute best way to get content organized into different boards. The only catch is that you can typically only pin pictures, videos, or words that are in picture format. This limits Pinterest’s reach a bit, but if you have a media friendly niche then you can definitely use them to curate photos. You can pin your blog posts, but their impact will be limited as Pinterest is mostly a visual medium.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Delicious</span></h4><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpCNQEc6Qm7xhCM8KggChv9Ht220xTXwIz2wcQYqCE0DhA09I35sPT0VDR8yqTpjCEGMrlLKOyc7MqE3W0pVGXTKLXAO382uhZERM8yP9YW7HWTDMaD-wjt63UWB_OdKfNv1DUOISdl0/s1600/ct-delicious.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #e34600; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpCNQEc6Qm7xhCM8KggChv9Ht220xTXwIz2wcQYqCE0DhA09I35sPT0VDR8yqTpjCEGMrlLKOyc7MqE3W0pVGXTKLXAO382uhZERM8yP9YW7HWTDMaD-wjt63UWB_OdKfNv1DUOISdl0/s640/ct-delicious.jpg" style="max-width: 95%; outline: none medium;" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Link - http://delicious.com/</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">My personal favorite. It allows you to bookmark links that you find all around the web and tag them with different types of information. For example, I have marketing, SEO, and link building tags that I use to tag a bunch of articles that I want to read. It is the absolute best way to get this done and can help you massively when it comes to content curation.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Happy Monkey', cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"><span style="color: #990000; outline: none medium;">Content Curation is a Powerful Tool to add to your Marketing Arsenal</span></h4><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">As more and more people focus on creating content to feed the Google beast, Content Curation becomes an essential aspect of an online marketing campaign. If you find valuable articles and add your 2 cents, you can feed content to your readers and create unique content that others will enjoy. Curating takes time as you want to only share the best of the best, but it is worth it as your audience finds that you are saving them time in doing their own research.</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">You can use content curation for your social media channels or to enhance your blog. Some people are even promoting their curated content websites as their primary sites and monetizing them. There are now Wordpress plugins that you can use, as well as sites like Rebelmouse that offer widgets for curation.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Don’t wait for content curation to be outdated, join the masses now and start benefiting from this new technique!</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;" /><div class="author-box" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #f7fefe; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(212, 226, 232); font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 91px; outline: none medium; padding: 10px;"><img alt="Author" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyF1B9ogLsG0P0mfDjooOwrLew6-LN9GwsvLgzPQ2NxerkqtDGlvWA2x_QUNbroXsKSsgpBx7W8XvYwUpacZmz38O4DppAlRR6vS9FU_DNtFO_LhrG9ECU1DAFzx3S3WrwP-nnCUHX9JU/s200/marcela-de-vito.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(1deg); background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 20px; border-bottom-right-radius: 20px; border-top-left-radius: 20px; border-top-right-radius: 20px; border: 1px solid rgb(158, 208, 222); display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 90px; max-width: 95%; outline: none medium;" /><b style="outline: none medium;">By Guest Author - </b><a href="http://www.gryffin.co/" style="color: #e34600; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marcela De Vivo</a> writes for <a href="http://whoishostingthis.com/" style="color: #e34600; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WhoIsHostingThis.com</a> , a service offering hosting reviews for webmasters. Marcela is an internet marketing expert working in the field for 13 years. She has seen engines come and go, algorithms created and changed, and loves to help companies achieve online success.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Philosopher, arial, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; outline: none medium;"></div>

5 Content Curation Tools To Help You Build Content

Guest Post -  Our host is  Marcela De Vivo , here Marcela looks at content curation and some useful tools you can use for it.See How To Beco...

Read more »