The summer is usually a time for slowing things down. We start eating healthy, getting more exercise, and just enjoying our lives. Here are some tips to make your blog healthier too.

1. Replan your blog. If you haven’t done this in a while, think about your business now and the message that you want to send people. Choose several topics that you’d like to cover in your blog. These topics will become your new categories.

2. Reorganize your blog. For search engine ranking, you really only want one category per post. Edit each post using the Quick Edit feature to save time.

3.  Rewrite outdated posts. Are there any posts that should be removed because the information in them has become outdated? Update the information and them post them as new posts. Post date the new posts so that you have new posts for a few weeks, giving you time off to enjoy your summer.

4.  Remove no-longer-relevant posts. Has your business taken on a new focus yet you still have posts that reflect the “old you”? There’s no reason to keep every post you’ve ever written on your blog. I wouldn’t delete them into oblivion. I would take them down and put them in a folder for later use.

5. Submit your blog posts directly to Ezine Articles. There’s a plugin to help you do this http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2010/03/articles-directly-from-wordpress.html. You must have an ezine articles account to use this so go sign up and start driving traffic to your site.

6. Remove oudated plugins. If you’ve been reading my writing and listening to me toalk, then you’ve heard this one before. Plugins can wreck havoc on a blog so make sure the ones you have installed are ones that you are currently using.

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