{"id":4959,"date":"2007-12-13T06:18:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/how-to-keep-momentum-going-by-building-on-previous-posts\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T20:57:32","slug":"how-to-keep-momentum-going-by-building-on-previous-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/how-to-keep-momentum-going-by-building-on-previous-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Momentum Going By Building on Previous Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nYou slave over the writing of a great new post for your blog, you’ve researched, hypothesized, edited, spell checked, polished and made it look all pretty….\n<\/p>\n

\nYou Hit Publish….\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat happens now? Are you done? Do you move on and push the post idea from your mind – searching for your next killer post?\n<\/p>\n

\nI’d like to suggest that rather than hitting publish and moving onto your next topic – that a smarter thing to do is to think about how the post you’ve just written might be useful in creating some momentum on your blog.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe problem with many blogs is that they are filled up with posts on similar topics (all within a wider niche) but without any real connection between them. The bloggers feel the pressure to keep producing good content – and in doing so don’t think about the journey that they’re leading readers on.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s my suggestion:\n<\/p>\n

\nTreat every post you write as an introduction to the next one<\/strong><\/span>
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\nWhat if instead of hitting publish, pushing the post from your mind and then searching for your next post topic – you stopped and asked yourself how that last post you wrote could be extended?\n<\/p>\n

\n\"Extend\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s a few ways to do it:\n<\/p>\n