How to Keep up Blog’s Pace When You Are on Holiday

This is a guest post by Ramkarthik of Blogging Tune. He gives tips on blogging, and making money online. He is also a freelance writer for hire.

It is not always possible for a blogger to stay in house and blog all the time whether it is full time or part time. Every blogger will take and has to take rest for sometime at least once in three months. You can go on a holiday, or if you are a student like me, then you will have exams every three months and blogging at these times are hard. But if you stop blogging for more than 10 days, your readers might not read come more often to your blog and think you have quit blogging. Even if you say you are on holiday, chances are less for them to come. I have experienced this when I left my blog without any post for nearly 30 days. It is really tough to get back once you have lost the pace. So here are a few things that you can do to keep up the pace:

• Ask Your Friends To Guest Blog:
  You are already seeing me doing it. Guest bloggers can maintain the pace of your blog. You may have a thought that getting guest bloggers is tough. But the truth is that, you can get one very easily. If you are there in the blogosphere for many days or months, then you will have no problem. You can even ask one of your blog’s regular readers or commentator, to write guest posts for you.
• Special Week:
  Announce in your blog that you will be creating awareness about a topic and you want your readers to co-operate. Then post pictures about it one day, videos on the topic one day, a guest post one day and your own post one day. Do all these before you go and use the time stamp. At the end of the week, when you return, announce a small gift to one of the person who helped you a lot in creating awareness. By this way, you create awareness, you give something useful to your readers and also you spend your week with no tension.
• A Competition:
  This is one of the best ways to run the blog when you are on holiday. Have a group writing competition. Then write few update posts or reminder posts for your readers using time stamp. After you return, select the winner and announce it. This will get more readers and subscribers to your blog. But I don’t advice the new bloggers to choose this method because it is not easy to get participants for your competition.

So if you are planning to go on a holiday or if you have exams, don’t let your blog without any posts. Once you lose the pace of your blog, it is not easy to get back. Do one of the above the three and keep up the pace of your blog. If you follow them, don’t forget to tell me your experience about it. I would also like to know from you the methods which you followed to keep up the pace when you were on holiday. Please share it in the comments.