This is the end of our blog series “Resuscitate Your Blog. I hope you have enjoyed it.

Here’s a recap of everything we have covered this month! What were your favourite posts? What did you get out of the series? What actions did you take? Let me know by leaving a comment below.

• Why You Are Neglecting Your Blog And What To Do About It
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 1: Forgiveness
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 2: Self-Accountability
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 3: Don’t Break the Chain
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 4: Blogathons
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 5: Last Post Notification Plugin
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 6: Gather Blog Ideas
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 7: Gather Blog Ideas Part 2
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 8: Interview an Expert
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 9: Daily Schedules
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 10: Monthly Themes
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 11: Your Top 10
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 13: Time Yourself
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 14: Reward Yourself
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 15: Completion Not Perfection
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 16: Create a Glossary
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 17: Twitterize Your Writing
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 18: Check Your Outbox For Ideas
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 19: Ask The Expert
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 20: The Dip
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 21: Let Them Know What’s Coming
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 22: Ask Your Audience
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 23: Ask Your Audience Part 2
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 24: Show Off Your Blog Series
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 25: Remember Why You Blog
• Resuscitate Your Blog Day 26: Guest Bloggers

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While blogging is fun and allows you to be creative you may want to consider asking someone else to be a guest blogger.

What they get out of being a guest blogger:

• Exposure to your audience
• SEO (links from your site to theirs)
• Ability to help your audience with their expertise
• Increase their list (ie. newsletter, twitter, rss)

What you get out of having guest bloggers:

• A break from blogging I know you were thinking that.
• Allowing someone else to get exposure to your audience
• Content on your site that complements your expertise
• Good karma

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits does this fabulously. He has guest bloggers a number of times a week. Leo’s blog is VERY popular (over 156,000 people subscribe to his blog). His guest bloggers gain tremendous exposure each time they are published on his blog. And Leo is so generous, he links to their blog and their twitter profile so that his readers can follow these fabulous guest bloggers ongoing. Leo rocks!

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While you have been resuscitating your blog it’s important to remind yourself why you are blogging to keep you going. Some of the popular reasons my clients blog are:

• visibility
• promoting their products and services
• journaling
• creating content for a future book
• building an audience
• creating a tribe
• increasing their web traffic
• educating their market
• affiliate income
• testing a new market

Why do you blog? Remind yourself why you do and keep doing it.

I have to laugh at this point, because I remember someone once said to me “You know Sandra, I have a blog but it doesn’t do anything for my business”, to which I asked “How often are you blogging?” He replied “I have only blogged a few times.” If Olympians only trained a few times, do you think any of us would tune into the Olympics? They wouldn’t bother televising it would they?

This person didn’t blog because he didn’t have a good enough reason to. He didn’t know why he blogged. He did it cause he thought he should. Find your reason for blogging and your passion for blogging will expand.

Happy blogging!

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If you have been writing a blog series, like I have all month, why not show it off? You’ve been working so hard on this series why not bring your visitor’s attention to it?

I have found this wonderful plugin that lists the posts in your blog series on your sidebar. (Click here to check out Series plugin.)

Simply install it, activate it then configure the settings in the “Series: List Posts” widget.

There is another widget that comes along with this plugin that lists any posts related to the current post on single-post views.

Enjoy! If you plan to write a number of series keep this plugin handy!

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Yesterday we talked about asking your audience what they want you to blog about. Don’t stop there. People love to give their opinion so why not create polls and publish them on your blog often?

Once you have gathered their opinions write another blog post about the results. What was shocking about the results? What option got the most votes? What do the results mean? There’s plenty of content you can create from your poll results and your audience will love that they get to contribute.

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It’s easier to know what your audience wants if you do one simple thing, ask them! Have you noticed how people love being asked for their opinion? So ask them what it is they want you to blog about.

For example, I am asking you, what do you want me to cover in February’s blog series in the poll below (go ahead and have your say now.)

You can create your own polls with PollDaddy. Visit PollDaddy.com, create your free account then install the PollDaddy Polls & Ratings plugin to create and manage your polls within WordPress. You can view your poll results while in your WordPress account. Pretty snazzy!

[polldaddy poll=2593899]

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