Once a Year Blog Maintenance–Are You Up to Date?

**Some great suggestions from my blog pal Jacqui, how to get your blog(s) ‘tuned up’ for the New Year! **

I’m working on these myself! 😉

HOPE YOUR WEEK IS GOING GREAT SO FAR!

This week, I’m providing tips for end-of-year technology maintenance. Sure, you should do it once a month if you’re active on your computer, but AT LEAST do it yearly.

Like today.

For most writers I know, life zooms by with few breaks to pause, glance around at the surroundings and clean up the clutter and confusion that grows like mold from our everyday authorial life. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do that, when many of us are blogging less, posting almost nothing, and have less commitments and obligations to fill our usual week.

Here’s my short list–one I hope is do-able during the Holidays:

• Update my profile. Have I changed my focus? Changed jobs? Adding new pieces readers would like to know about? This, btw, should be done regularly, but at the new year–it’s critical.
• Check old posts for grammar and spelling. I start…

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