Multiple Blog Topics
When I'm looking at other blogs, I see this every once in a while and wonder, "What the heck were they thinking?" The topic clearly states one idea and throughout the post they start talking about irrelevant things. I’m not sure what the logic is here. If you are trying to increase the word count (which isn't how you would do it anyway) then you are only hurting your topic. This happens to me every once in a while. I start talking about one tip to help you blog more efficiently and it starts to stray into some other irrelevant topic. The topic isn’t terrible, but the sudden change in topic might be the difference between less views and more views.
Hopefully, most of us will usually recognize this and stop. I pull out some information that's not really necessary for the topic. There are some instances where a brief overview is needed. If that is the case, you will probably see me say something like, “I’m not going to get into that here”. This simply suggests that I will be writing about this in the future. Why try to cram it in a post when I can simply write about it in tomorrow’s post on that topic? The post would be much more accurate and detailed on the idea than it would be if I had left it in another topic. Of course, this can also lead to an open-ended discussion about what I wasn't going to talk about.
I suggest having a pencil and paper or better yet, the Fire Fox extension Quick Note available when you are writing. I usually just open up Notepad or Microsoft Word and type a few sentences down.You can jot down basic ideas for other future topics. It will help you when you have writer's block because you can then look and choose topics you might write about in the future.
Let's get to the point: don’t cram multiple ideas into one post. It will help you in more ways than one. You will be better off on Google’s search engines for more content, more keywords, and you will also have another article to submit to social bookmarking programs. A more detailed post on a topic you plan to write later is better than a small paragraph in a post about something else. It's best not to get off topic, which is what I tend to do on blogs such as these. Don't make that mistake and always check and reread your post. It doesn't take a lot of effort, trust me.
-Aud