Okay, I'll admit the only way to take a true blog vacation is to simply stop publishing for a period of time and focus on something other than your organizational or personal blog.
Another blog vacation option people suggest frequently - at least to me - is rerunning blog content that's previously appeared. For whatever reason, republishing an evergreen blog post seems like junking up your own part of the web with duplicate content. It's bad enough when someone else grabs your content and re-publishes it without doing it to yourself in order to take a break.
As part of my own ongoing exploration of how to devise a blog vacation to work on other projects, here are eight ideas for various ways to arrange a blog vacation:
This is kind of the “Fridays off during the summer” strategy applied to blogging.
Depending on how well your content is categorized and how deep it is, this can take longer than expected.
This variation on rerunning blog content can create two pieces of fresh content with lesser effort if you run a new post calling attention to the update.
By reducing your standard blog post length to perhaps 10% of its normal number of words you can create more content in less time. This works well if your strategy is to stockpile content ahead of time.
As with other strategies, this can one can take a deceptively long time to solicit, edit, and publish the guest blog posts.
I participated in an experiment such as this on someone else’s blog. They left an “on vacation” post and pre-invited regular readers and fans to build on the topic or take it in new directions through comments.
This strategy has been working for creating content to support a weekly newsletter I write. It’s pretty efficient to compile content on a specific theme as a starter and then rewrite it to make new and updated points.
This strategy adds new value to evergreen content. Taking sentences and paragraphs and turning them into questions and diagnostics provides new usability to content.
What other ideas have you tried or do you have for creating the space for a blogging vacation? – Mike Brown
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