Writing your thoughts down on internet paper is the easy part, for me and pretty sure it's the same for most bloggers. The tricky part is maintaining the content and layout of the blog. Let me give you some examples to explain better. The other day I removed a small banner that was used for members to register at Mylot. I wanted to make my own banner that matched my layout. No hurry on getting this banner done, more important things to work on. Well after deleting this banner I had forgotten that the banner was also mentioned in one of my earlier posts and when did I find this out? After a potential referral asked me where the banner was. Yikes! Unfortunately they signed up for Mylot anyway without my referral name, but he thanked me for the great review. So of course a decision had to be made. Either get my new Mylot banner back up fast or change the post. You see my point now?

Here is another example but I will make it short. My very first blog I wanted tons of traffic so of course Blog Rolling was the hot thing to do back then. I don't know if people still do this now. Anyway keeping up with all those blog links became a monthly chore. Like I mentioned above, blogs were shutting down all the time and blog rolling just became one big headache. There was no time to write any posts, can you believe this? Isn't that the whole point of Blogging to share your thoughts? 

Well I have learned my lesson this time and hopefully helped you readers with this mini lesson. Blogging is like a full time job but it does not have to overwhelm you. Write when you feel inspired. Rushing or forced blogging jeopardizes the content and sometimes originality. Work smarter not harder and this will cut down on the maintenance side of blogging. If you absolutely must do these blogging chores, do them when you have a block of time so you can get it all done and not have to redo those things. Thanks for listening to my rant and it's on to my next post!