I want my business to have reliable authority in its niche and here is how I will build that authority. Here's how I do it. Advertising Continue reading below Post more often Until two months ago, I was posting about once a month. Then I drove it up an average of twice a month. My new goal is to post two to three times a week. I saw John Chow on a sign a while back. Someone asked him how he got traffic to his blog and said he posts twice a day, every day. He configured his Feedburner to send an email approximately every 12 hours. Now, that's a bit extreme in my opinion (and possibly irritating to subscribers). But having done something similar myself, I see that John is right in principle. Posting more often works. Now, I think it's important to be careful here.
I see so many e-commerce sites fax list killing themselves to get more posts, but they're not seeing conversions. I want people to come to my website regularly because my content is really useful, informative and practical. Not all of my weekly posts will be epic masterpieces. Some will be a short message with a video. Some will be giveaways and winner announcements. Others will be how-to articles, weekly recipes I've already written are in my Drafts folder. Advertising Continue reading below [pullquote] The key is to post early and often. Post regularly. Same time, every week. [/Pullquote] I know, it sounds intimidating. But it's not difficult, especially if you use an editorial calendar. Once you've gone deep and developed a clear content strategy, a lot of the hard work is done.
Now it's a matter of discipline. Publish what your readers want to read Lately, I've been using my Facebook page to test content. I'll post something that interests me, or something that I've been thinking about or experimenting with for a while. Or I'll tell them about a product that I tested. Based on the response on Facebook, I will get an idea of how popular a post is. If I get a lot of comments on Facebook, chances are the post will get a lot of traffic. Relevant posts drive traffic Sarah Pope of The Healthy Home Economist increased her blog traffic by 400% in one year. Sarah started with around 50-75 search engine searches per day. Today it is over 1000. Advertising Continue reading below was write controversial articles. Give your blog a spark, kick it Her writing style is very direct and the topics she chooses to write about are searing.