When you’re running a blog, one of the best assets you can work on building from the very beginning is your email list. Not only are people who subscribe to your email list more likely to remember who you are and keep coming back to your website, they are more likely to buy your paid products and programs once you have them. In order to build a good email list, you need a variety of ways through which it can be built and strengthened.
Getting to know the audience that you’re trying to reach with your blog can be very helpful when it comes to increasing traffic, getting people to return to your blog repeatedly and therefore making more money from it. There are certain things you can do in order to promote a better relationship with your visitors and get to know them better.
Do you feel like your blog is letting you down? You work so hard as a blogger to generate interest, attract visitors, and then turn those visitors into loyal customers. Yet you don’t feel like all your hard work is being rewarded. You hear story after story about bloggers making a good living off of their little pieces of Internet real estate. Every now and then you see glimpses of success, and you think it is your turn to finally make a full-time living from your blog.
Then the traffic inexplicably slows, so do your sales, and you have to put your dreams of becoming a million-dollar blogger on hold.
It doesn’t have to be that way. With a successful plan full of proven blog-boosting tips and best practices, you can transform your ho-hum blog into a traffic-magnet presence on the web that helps you reach all your blogging goals. In as little as 21 days, you can see a real change in how your blog performs.
In this first part, we discuss how to decide when you should post to your blog. Several times per day? Once a day? Once a week? Whenever you have something to post?
Once a month used to be the standard, but those days are long gone, if you want to build a solid readership following. There are just too many bloggers posting on this same schedule and one way to get ahead of the pack is to post more often.
In part, deciding when to post has a lot to do with the type of blog you have. If it is more of a social-type blog, you should post at least daily, and probably closer to several times per day. Each time can either be scheduled so they will be sent at specific time intervals during the day or you can post in real-time during the course of the day whenever “breaking news” in your niche happens.
If you are just blogging for fun then a strategy isn’t necessary. But if you want to give your blog the potential to go anywhere – make money and to reach as many people as possible – then you need to get strategic! And, since blogs rely on quality content to attract readers and keep them interested (and, eventually, buying from you!) then it makes sense to prioritize your content strategy.
Updating your blog with fresh content is an important part of making sure people stay interested. If you haven’t posted anything in a while, people might lose interest or even stop subscribing to your blog. However, posting too often can also pose a problem, so it’s important to get the right balance for your blog.
