In an earlier post we covered the Best Time to Blog Post, so naturally I received a few emails asking the question “How often should I post to my blog?” This is a frequently asked question among new bloggers.
You could receive a hundred different responses to this question and have a hundred correct responses. There are just too many variables of a blog and the blogger to give you one answer. If you have a news blog you may want to post two to three times a day. If you write a seasonal blog then you may write more posts during the season and then less post in the off season. For example, if you write a Christmas blog you may only post twice a month February to October and then post every day in November and December and then once a week in January.
When you first start your blog you should have goals and a plan for your blog. This will include a decision on how often you should post. As a general rule, you should post as often as you wanted so long as you provide quality information without burning out your readers. Remember to review your stats periodically to help determine your posting schedule.
Just remember that even if you have a seasonal blog, you will still need to post regularly or often enough to keep your ranking in the search engines. So tell me what kind of blog do you have and how often do you post?
The Federal Trade Commission has released new guide lines on 10/05/09. These changes affect testimonial advertisements, bloggers and celebrity endorsements. There are some new rules related to disclosures that will required. Make sure you read this article.
Learning and teaching things about blogging now day’s it’s really easy. You can find hundreds of thousands of successful stories. But over the years I have not really read any blogs mentioning to get feedback and learn from comments on other blog websites.
Other Comment’s can help you.
Let say for example you are writing about topic “How to generate 20.000 pageviews per month” well you can start writing and be done with the post. But would it be nice that you have comments like “WOW I never thought of that” or “Thanks you helped me so much” rather than “Man that’s stupid , this is how I generate 20.0000 pageviews”
Are you following me? ( No not on twitter )
So to write more succesfull stories articles or blog posts (Whatever you call it) first do your homework
get the facts
see what others think about the facts
who benefits from those facts
is it worth writing about it?
And to get all the answers and facts above , just lookup the stuff on google, go to blog and read comments , in those comments I bet you money you will find helpful links and better feedback than posting a Poll or Survey online!
This week I would like to introduce you to different type of traffic “YouTube Traffic“. By no means, I am video fanatic nor I have big skills with YouTube. But once a while I would create video that I think others might like , while making YouTube videos I noticed few days later that my traffic changed yet I was not able to tell where from.
So here is few tips what you can upload to youtube and generate some traffic: Example my video; How To Make Money
This video alone which is pretty much LAME and I wasn’t sure what I was doing got me over 6.000 page views. There is other videos I made and my traffic trippled in just few months. (I am talking about different blog, more tech blog)
What I would like you to do for homework:
Create video that will help others, make it original. See also what is trending on YouTube. Most YouTuber’s love comedy so be funny and creative. Imagine just if you make that video and land 360.000 video views , now from that 360K viewers probably 1/4 of them will visit your site. So don’t forget to include your website on the sidebar!!!
Over the past few years I learned that if you post an article at specific time you can gain more readers, returning visitors and you control your audience when to hit the site the most.
Best time to blog post will be right in the morning 6am. Most people wake up at that time, have their coffee, serial and laptop front of them. But that does not mean that your particular audience is going to be that way.
Why?
Blogs like Political News, Economy News, Technology News or Celebrity News (News that change constantly) are more interesting to read in the morning or after work 5PM.
Blogs like Make Money Online, Astronomy, How To’s, Education etc …are more visited throughout the day BUT there is always that peak time which you should hit every day.
As you can see BONTB peak time is between 12pm-18pm now I would like you to compare your times and see the difference.
Again Why?????
Because what you want to do is check your time line when people are most visiting and blog post about an hour before the big audience arrives. This way people will say “Oh this has been just updated, great!” or “Wow I got to bookmark this!, it’s breaking news!”
Time came when you ask your self so how much should I really charge for Blog Advertising. In just few blog posts you will get an answer.
My best intrepetation and advice is to charge $1 per 1000 Page Views 100.000 Pageviews =$100
Here are some interesting blog posts that will explain in detail how much you should charge and is pretty fair to your advertising clients:
Nice comparison on how much to charge by MakeYougohmm
I think at the end you should first think what is the topic you are writing about and how much value are you bringing to your advertisers. I for example charge less for advertisers that write about technology because from time to time they also link back. Than also you should consider that how valuable your content is, you could build autoblog and get 150.000 page views but that does not mean your audience is clicking on advertising links example: ToyotaCrazy in such cases best thing to do is just go with adsense let them figure how much you get paid
This next trick I am going to show you is something that worked for me all the time. To be number one on google for Top Keywords!.
It really does not matter if you are new to blogging and what page rank you have all you really need is focus on Top Keywords and blogs that rank number one for keywords like example: “Make Money Online” or “Best Technology Blogs”
This is what I would like you to do!
Do research which blog is number 1 for keyword you are looking for. Then go to that blog and leave comment in way you don’t sound like spammer yet you want to draw traffic from that blog to your blog (blog post).
If you notice also that blog is accepting Post Trackbacks write a GOOD blog post on your blog and link to that blog post which is ranking No.1 for specific keyword.
This trick worked for me each time, I would get at least 500 visitors each month from each blog that rank number one.
So it really does not matter if you rank 12403 for keyword like “make money online” because your comment or Trackback is going to give you pretty much good exposure to people, that were interested in that keyword.
Great way to start gaining traffic and popularity in 2009 is by Importing Blog Feeds to Social Networks such as Twitter, Social Median, Facebook and more. By adding your blog feeds to social networks your blog posts can be read by millions of others but that all depends also what you write about and how popular you are.
Here are few examples you can try and see the differences in your traffic in next 24-48 hr’s
Go to Twitter Feedlogin and the rest it’s self explanatory:
ImportRSS Feeds. Set blog rss feed to be tweeted on your twitter account every 30minutes to 1h. Or once per day, this all depends on how often do you write on your blog.
New startup called SocialMedian can help you also gain traffic.
Register, Import your social networks, import your rss feeds
Remember this year there will be more new internet people online, and without social networks they might not find you, because search engines are over crowded with top keywords.
As I mentioned in few of my previous blog posts that I visit many many blogs per day sometimes even 200 if I have time. That does not mean I read everything sometimes I stay for 10sec sometimes for 1 minute but if the article(s) are good I stay as long as I have something good to read. And this week I stumble upon blog that caught my eye and I just could NOT click off from it. Blog name EduBook at first I thought its some kind of E-Book site but then I found out it’s more of a educational blog in every single category you could imagine. First thing I read was the 5 posts about Make Money Online I read that just because that is what I do right?
The only thing this simple blog with very gentle look did not have is About page, I was so interested reading that after I was finished I wanted to find out more about authors and who the founder is yet I was not able to find it.
So anyways blogs like this should be rewarded for great content they provide and simplicity of navigation. I mean just checkout their Categories how they are setup, loving it!
What does this tell you?
Great content will catch your audience attention, the better content it is the more loyal visitors you will get and on top of that they will stay longer on your site because they are interested in your writing and content.
Oh and if you are visiting Edu Book please don’t forget to visit their Business section that was my favorite one!
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