There is a great post over at Problogger whose title is guaranteed to get lots of readers and will be well dugg too. 10 Techniques I Used To Go From 0 To 12,000 RSS Subscribers In Seven Months – With No Ads Or Leverage. The post is written by Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar.
There is one technique from the 10 great ones that caught my attention and that was of Scheduling Posts.
Last week I set myself a tracking sheet in Excel, I was excited about blogging and moving fast so I set myself a goal of doing two posts a day. As I had commented earlier that I was waking up early in the morning with ideas
Well a few things got in the way, like reading email, reading blogs, getting new ideas and come Sunday and I add up my totals! Not quite there- an unrealistic goal? The area I must focus on is writing the posts. The tracker below shows this
This to me looks like I need to create daily powerful focused intentions – interesting as the card that fell out from my Angel cards this morning was Focused Intention. Back to the Power Hour principle.
This week I will fouc on getting to having one post a day and create that as a daily habit. I know I missed Monday and Wednesday this week so there will be a couple of 2 post a day.
I remember reading in John Chow’s E-Book Make Money Online, that he has 3 or 4 post written ahead, a practice that I see now as being essential.
If anyone reading this would like to share their scheduled posting experiences , please leave a comment.
I have no schedule, no plan and just enjoy picking up on the issues of the day in the news, in my life and in other blogs. For other people, who have other objectives for their blogs, a schedule may be necessary. I just find most of those kinds of blogs related to how to boost SEO, affiliate marketing, keywords, getting rich, ego boosting plain boring and most I don’t even read. Each to their own. That is the great thing about blogging.
It’s so important for all of us to stay focused on our goals. Thanks for reminding me suzie!
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Yes Jes, it is good to be reminded, so many things take up off track
I had read this post on ProBlogger earlier earlier in the week and thought he had some valid points.
The key with how many posts you write is that you need to be consistent in your frequency. I’ve tried to write posts in advance to have at the ready when needs be, but I can never find the time to maintain that. It’s certainly helped when I’ve been able to do it tho. Whatever your goals are as to how many and how often you post needs to be an attainable goal.
One point that I thought was really good was to have a delicious button that’s highly visible so your readers can bookmark their favorite posts … something I need to get my webmaster on to! I have a delicious button at the bottom of each post, but I think that people for the most part are so used to seeing them in posts on most blogs that they don’t really pay attention to them.
To have 12,000 readers … I only dream of it one day!
Excellent site Suzie. Famed you on BTF 🙂
Thanks Deborah, I have returned the fame.Yes consistency is the clue, I have this week done seven post so feeling good. Thanks for the reminder about the delicious button.See you around the blogosphere
Hi Suzie,
I’ve only recently been reading things on the net about Delicious, and it appears to hold a lot more merit than I had ever imagined.
I took a test on a blogger’s site just for fun recently that rates your score for your blog. One of the key factors was how many others have saved your posts on Delicious. Just posting your own doesn’t count, it’s others saving them as well. I’ve been reading other things as well. So the more friends you have saving them, the better it is for your site’s authority for algorythms. So it’s beneficial if you have blogger friends or others saving your posts. Interesting eh?
That’s what I try to do as well, 7 posts a week. Some days it’s a real challenge, but I see readers coming daily to see what’s new. So I know that I can’t stray from that, or I could possibly lose readers…consistency…
I think I just figued something out tonight about Blogging to Fame as well. You mentioned that you famed me (which I very much appreciate!), but it didn’t show up for a vote. I’ve had quite a number of others say they voted as well, and nothing showed for a vote.
My brother in law came by tonight, and had registered to vote for me weeks ago, but I never received a vote from him. Tonight he didn’t realize that he had to hit the ‘Fame It’ or ‘Fame Me’ button twice for it to work. The second time is your confirmation for your vote, then it accepts it. So it’s a good pointer for you if you have any friends voting for you, to ensure they hit the button again when it opens up in a new window when you fame someone. You’ll know when your vote is complete, because that little fame it button disappears. I have a hunch that there are a lot of ppl that haven’t received votes which they would have if it weren’t a 2-step process.
Hi Suzie,
I was looking for info on delicious buttons & came across your blog. Very interesting reading 🙂
For me, my content is easy to come up with (children’s craft), as we have a house-full of inspiration!
I have several posts up my sleeve, aim for 3 of them each week to be craft projects and the rest are memes (good networking) or just musings.
I’m slow to get really into it, so it’s good to hear I’m not alone. Thanks, I’ll be back!
Cheers, Jane 🙂