Tiny Tips 1 – Traffic – Your posting schedule
Welcome to the first post in the Tiny Tips series. Sometimes, you may not have the time to read a post entitled “100 top complicated tips for driving traffic to your blog and how to implement all of these steps in 6 weeks”. Wow – with our busy lives?
But you might just have 10 minutes to read a ‘Tiny Tip’ and implement a single small idea that can make a difference. Or at least a tiny tip can give you something to think about as you go about your day. If you are anything like me, you are already incredibly busy with more on your to do list for today than you could probably achieve in a week – so I do try to break things down into manageable bite size chunks both of information and action steps.
Tiny Tip for today – Traffic Building
Face it, there is no point having the most beautiful and appealing adverts in your sidebars, and the most amazing sponsored posts and offers to your readers – if you don’t have any readers! Traffic to your blog or website is perhaps the most vital link in the chain when it comes to earning from your writing.
So tip for today – POST FREQUENTLY and be consistent
Readers like consistency. It’s confusing if you publish 4 posts in 2 days and then nothing again for 10 days. Are you on vacation? Have you decided to stop blogging? Attention spans are short and distractions are high with so many other sites vying for attention. So set up a blogging schedule and stick to it.
For my sewing blog, I schedule a post every 5 days. This will generally be a main post on a distinct project or subject, or a single post in a series. In between I will post again on smaller subjects or on anything that comes up – like a sale my readers should know about. But never more than 5 days goes by without a post. A round up of my posts is sent by email to my subscribers 3 times a week.
This isn’t just important for your readers. The more frequently you post, the more traffic you get because the search engines are indexing your content more frequently and search engines love sites that are up to date. Plus the more you post, the more (awesome) content you will have to keep your visitors engaged on your site when they do visit – right?
If you find it hard to be consistent – you might like to use my Posting Schedule. I use this for my own posting, and it helps me to see at a glance what posts are part written, which need photos, which are ready to publish and when they are scheduled for. And when a post goes live, it reminds me where to publicise my latest updates. There are also blank columns for you to add in sites that are relevant to your content, maybe your favorite linky parties.
You can download this from my Google Docs here –
Be Consistent Posting Schedule Download.
Pin this on your wall by the computer and keep yourself organised, posting frequently and consistently.
Authored by: Deby at Moms Make Money
March 8, 2013 @ 1:34 pm
Ahhhh, this is difficult for me. I’ve never been a linear person and though I’ve written down a posting schedule for the week and month I always get sidetracked and start changing projects etc. So I really have to buckle down 🙂
March 8, 2013 @ 1:40 pm
You can always use a pencil so things can be changed! I like to use it as an ideas board too – when I get an idea for a post or a topic, it goes on the list with no scheduled date, so I don’t forget the good idea I had. Or keep a couple of posts written that can be published when you can’t think of anything else to write, or something comes up which means your planned post isn’t ready. It’s also a good way to schedule seasonal posts – add events such as Easter to your schedule so you know when to have your Easter posts ready to go – these things can sneak up on you otherwise.
March 9, 2013 @ 9:01 am
Such great advice. Thanks so much for sharing. I’ve tried to be consistent with my posts, and now I know I need to keep it up. Thanks again, and have a great weekend!
March 9, 2013 @ 10:19 am
Thanks for sharing. I’m visiting from It’s Overflowing.
March 10, 2013 @ 12:09 pm
Thanks for the advice!
March 10, 2013 @ 1:09 pm
Great tip!
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Leslie
March 10, 2013 @ 10:14 pm
Thanks for sharing this tip. I am really working on getting organized as things are getting busier on the blog and a little crazier trying to keep up. I have found a lot of useful info on your blog. I am definitely going to subscribe.
March 11, 2013 @ 9:32 am
I like this, rather than just having it in my head and having the oh no I missed the blog party moment! Thank you for the doc. I am off to your sewing blog. I just started a creative craft blog. I love it already!
Debbie
March 12, 2013 @ 2:30 pm
I’m just getting into blogging and I’m working on coming up with a plan for future posts. Right now I am posting at least every week, on Monday mornings. It does help a lot to plan things out in advance so I’m not scrambling Sunday night to write something. Thanks for sharing your planning calendar – I think I’ll put that to good use! Can’t wait to see your other tips 🙂
March 12, 2013 @ 7:40 pm
Your posting schedule will come in real handy. Thanks for the download.
March 13, 2013 @ 8:04 am
Thanks for sharing. I’ve been looking for something like this because when I look in blogger I have tons of drafts and posts scheduled- it gets confusing. This will keep me more organized. Thanks again!
Stopping by from Whatever Goes Wednesday. 🙂
March 13, 2013 @ 7:41 pm
Great tip. Thank you for sharing.
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March 13, 2013 @ 11:45 pm
What great tips! Thanks so much for sharing at Project Inspire{d} ~ i’m pinning this to our group party board ~ http://pinterest.com/mbtm/project-inspire-d-party-pins/
March 16, 2013 @ 3:07 pm
I am so loving your great blog!! I am following by email, and the info is so awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing with us at A Bouquet of Talent! So thrilled to have you share with us this week! Have a wonderful weekend. 🙂
XO
Kathy
March 18, 2013 @ 7:45 pm
Excellent advice and I love the simplicity. Thank you for linking up at Fluster’s Creative Muster. Hope to see you next week!
Robin @ Fluster Buster
March 20, 2013 @ 2:25 am
I see you have a lot of good posts! I post every mondays, wednesday and friday. And occationally on the other days as well. I have created a blog binder so I can keep up with what I plan to post, what needs to be done etc. My blog is still quite young so I hope I can keep up the posts! I do try to have a plan one month ahead of time on what to blog so I always can be prepared.