My Girlfriend (She’s a super model, btw), bought a couple rabbits. I certainly was not pleased to see them running around leaving their wonderful surprises all over my room, despite how adorable they actually were. I’ve had to take care of them, feed them, clean them, and whatnot. Now, it just seems so natural, and I have fallen in love with them (for the most part…). It has reminded me of blogging. You dread it, you hate it, especially in the beginning. I certainly went through this stage, but as you, the blogger, grow with your blog you can see it become a part of you. For some it may take some time, and for others, less than a week. If you want this to come easier to you though, you need to care for your blog just as you would any rabbit. Let me show you how.
A rabbit needs to be fed food and water several times a day. Your blog might only need it once a day or a couple times a week, but you still need to give your blog some original content. This isn’t all a blog needs though. If you feed a rabbit spoiled vegetables or dirty water you are left with, well, crap. If you aren’t writing original well thought out content for your blog, what are you going to get out of it? Just the same. Also, every once in a while, you might please your rabbit with a snack. This is perfectly fine. Put something fun on your blog. Write an entry that is off the seriousness of your niche. Make your blog a happy blog!
Now what could this imply? You don’t want your rabbit running around on someone else’s property, otherwise, they can do with it whatever they please. What I am saying here, is get your blogs off of free web hosting. Set up your blog on the Wordpress CMS and pay 60 bucks for hosting and a domain name. Putting your blog on Blogger or Wordpress’ free hosting shows that you are extremely unprofessional, and not too serious about blogging. I can understand some may not have the money or credit card needed to get that hosting. Get a job for one day, work 8 hours, sign up at Dreamhost and get $50 dollars off when you use the code OSIS. Alternatively you could steal your parents credit card, but I don’t condone this, I am just getting you ideas. I don’t let my rabbits run off into someone else’s hands. Neither should you.
After about 3 - 4 days, these rabbits stink. Their cage is full of crap and what not. It’s a total mess. My girlfriend (the supermodel) doesn’t always do this, so a lot of the time I am stuck with the chore. It’s not a big deal, but something that should be done regularly. You should always check your blog to see where you can clean up parts. You can clean up your blog posts, wash your sidebars, or scrub upon your new header design. You don’t need to do this every week though, maybe once a month is even too much. Make sure your blog presents itself nicely though. People love clean rabbits, just as your subscribers love clean blogs.
This is an important one. This will show that you really love your rabbit, and if you love your rabbit, it will love you back. Get involved with your blog’s community. Have a little fun with them. Converse, joke, tease, post interesting things related to your blog, make a contest. ENJOY IT! Being a blogger is a great ‘job.’ You get to write about things you love and are passionate about. If you aren’t passionate about it, maybe you need to think about giving the blog to a friend, or selling it. I would hate to do that to one of my rabbits, but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.
And that is how you love a blog like a bunny! Silly how all these connections really make sense to me. I dropped out of my philosophy class because of what a joke it all seemed to me. Now look at me. All life seems to be connected to blogging. I don’t need no stinkin’ philosophy class to teach me that. Maybe I’ve confused you, my subscribers though (At an amazing 45 after less than a month!). Need me to guide you more upon these connections of mine? Have any connections between your bunnies, or any animals for that matter, towards blogging? Let them be known. Comment!
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Well maybe not animals but recently I did blog about blogging being like a restaurant which was kind of weird.
Haha. That sounds like something John Chow would do. You should send him a link to it. That is linkbait baby! Hahaha
Justin
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