Five Secrets for Blogging Success – Secret #2
Schedule your blogs
If you have a spare hour or two in your day, use it to get ahead in your blog writing. Using Secret #1 Keep Your Evergreens Fresh – and In Stock, you know that every subject has topics that are always in demand by your readers. Take your found time and write a few blogs. Perhaps even create a series (like this Five Secrets series).
Once you have finished writing them, DON”T just click on the “publish” button, instead look for an option in publishing to select a later date for publication. In WordPress, you can choose the “edit” option next to “publish immediately” and choose the date of publication. For a three-part series, you might choose to publish one each Wednesday for three weeks in a row. Just select the date and WordPress will hold your selection until then for viewing.
This is handy for vacations or times when you will be out of the office. You can maximize your time by writing several entries at once, breaking a longer article into several shorter, more readable articles, and publishing them over days, weeks, or months. This keeps your content consistently fresh – and your readers engaged. Readers appreciate a blog that appears at regular intervals. You want them to get in the habit of clicking over to your blog – and sending fresh content is the best way to do that.
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