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Tips For Keeping Your Blog Up To Date
By admin | October 27, 2008
How do you keep your blog up to date? I have written about whether you should blog, what sort of blogging may interest you, design of your blog and some tips on making money from your blog. Part of all of that is keeping it up to date and there is some heavy duty maintenance there!
Keeping a blog up to date is very important. If you post every day then it can be difficult to keep up with that if you blog on a part time basis. Regular blog readers will expect new postings on a regular basis. It may not be every day, but preferably at least once a week. The more times you can post to your blog,the better, not just to satisfy your readers but to increase your visibility on the internet and ultimately to increase your page rankings.
Find Time to Post Daily
You may find it difficult to do this but I would recommend that you post daily. Some bloggers post many times a day.I am not one of them! Nobody is perfect and there will be times when you just cannot do it. Bloggers who allocate a specific block of time each day to research, writing and publishing a blog post are more likely to keep it up to date, than those that plan to do it only when they find time to do so. You may still have days when you dont post but they will be less frequent if you have organised yourself and dedicated a block of time to posting to your blog.
If you cant blog, post a brief entry explaining why.This is better than just leaving the blog “empty” for a few days. Don’t do that too regularly however!
Take Advantage of Publishing Tools
Some blog publishing tools, wordpress in particular enable bloggers to write blog posts ahead of time and specify when each post should be published. This is an excellent feature for bloggers who want to publish new posts daily but are unable to dedicate time each day to writing blog posts. This way the blogger can dedicate a block of time to write blog posts and have the posts published throughout the week.
I have found that this works very well if I am on a “roll”and I can schedule the posts. In Wordpress, its simply just looking at the publish status at the side of the post and editing the time and day you want to publish.Dont forgt to save the post and click on publish after you have edited the publish status fields. That will schedule the post to go out at the alloted time. If you dont click “publish” at this stage, it won’t schedule it. Learn from my mistake!
Hire Guest Bloggers
You might want to consider this if you are really struggling to keep up with your blog. The advantage of having a guest blogger is obvious, its less work for you, but do think carefully before you go down this route. If you havent got the time or inclination to blog in the early stages, then perhaps you should reexamine whether you should have a blog in the first place.
If you are thinking about the guest blogger route,consider whether how your readers might react. They might like you! Consider asking them, do a poll, try it and see how it affects your traffic. Using a guest blogger can be detrimental so examine your statistics carefully if you go down that route.
Theres no easy answer to this so I guess its just down to plain hard work.
Til next time
jane
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