If you’re going to be a successful blogger, one important point to keep in mind is that you should update your blog regularly. By regular, I simply mean that you should define a schedule and STICK to that schedule. Do NOT wander off that schedule, ever.
But, that’s difficult, right? Why?
The major reason why people tend to lose interest midway through their blogging is because they start out wrongly. They decided to blog about something that was not really their point of interest. So, primary rule to success is – Blog about what you love!
Here I share 4 reasons why you should blog regularly:
A Regular Schedule Turns Readers Into ‘Loyal Readers‘
The idea is pretty simple. When you plan and stick to a schedule, your readers get used to that schedule. Eventually, they don’t have to rely on the blog feeds either. As long as they are well aware of your posting schedule, they’ll generally visit your blog themselves on days when they expect you to update the blog. Finding fresh content gives them a reason to keep coming back!
You Lose Traffic When You Deviate
Consider the point above. When loyal readers re-visit your blog, they do so with the expectation of reading something new. If you regularly SKIP your scheduled posting times and neglect the entire blogging area, then these visitors will gradually get disappointed. They won’t be able to keep track of your blog updates and quite a few might simply stop visiting you. This generally leads to a decline in traffic (and a sharp decline, mind that) which is the last thing you want if you’re aiming to be a successful blogger.
Regular Updates = Higher Search Engine Positions
Obviously, Search engines want content. They love content. Everytime they visit your blog, they’ll scrape it for new content. If they find it, they index it. And when they index it, you have more pages indexed in a particular search engine. That, in turn, means you have more chances of people visiting your blog when they’re searching for something, as with the addition of each new blog post, you basically widen the scope of topics you cover. And the more pages and quality posts you have indexed, you get more authority in the search engines. Anyone who has a basic idea of success, would not disagree with this post!
Regular Updates Get You More Backlinks
Don’t forget that quite a few of your readers are also bloggers(in most of the niches). And when you regularly update your blog, every once in a while they’ll like something you posted and link back to you from their own blogs. What does this offer you? Free backlinks! Who would not want free backlinks? All it takes is some time to stay true to your schedule and you get so many benefits without having to actually work hard for them.
Conclusion
There’s countless advantages of regularly updating your blog. More traffic (which leads to more revenue), more exposure, you establish yourself as a professional in your blogging niche, etc. Of course, it all requires you to stick to your schedule. And if you’re short on time, then plan a schedule that does not require too much time, but can still effectively keep your blog fresh!
Are you able to stick to your schedule? If not, what makes that thing does not happen? Let me know by commenting below.
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You are so right in speaking about those pointers .I completely agree about loyal readers and blog posting.
I blog for all the above reasons but also as it helps me to express myself too …
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i too believe in the essence of sticking to a schedule….if you have started your schedule as alternate day posting, stick to that….never change the schedule or it may backfire
Nice to know that Tushar. If you are having alternate day posting schedule then you should try to stick to it. But if you skip it by more 3-4 days then it won’t bother much to your readers..
But if you skip that schedule by almost 2-3 weeks. Then it raises a Big questions for your readers..
Yeah, stick to our post schedule surely mean a lot for blogging success. I face significant traffic drop when i can not post for 1 week after new years holiday. Thanks god it already back in track now.
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If you are new to blogging, that one week gap will surely affect many of the new bloggers.
But suppose, if Darren Rowse(problogger.net) goes of for a week. Then I don’t think there will be big down spike in his traffic. Because, he is already having 5000+ articles on his blog which is bringing continuous traffic.
I believe that this is so true, to blog often enough to keep people interested in your blog and get some
loyal followers. I try to blog at least every other day and sometimes every day. It is hard to find original content all the time.
Nice to know about that schedule. Pets niche is a big niche. All you need to do is little bit brainstorming to get ideas and thus your schedule won’t get affected.
You may like to read this post which could help little bit in that. – “How To Write An Article When You Have A Creative Block“
Planning schedule is needed for every work… Planning is very easy but following that schedule is
very difficult. We have be consistent in blogging. This shows our identity
Yeah, I agree to you in that. Planning is way easy but following it strictly is like a difficult thing for most of the part time bloggers. As a part time blogger, sometimes I am also not able to stick to my posting schedule which is an article in every 2-3 days. I usually skip that schedule by some more 2-3 days due to work overload.
I have to agree with all of these reasons, they make a lot of sense! Blogging more just bring in more unique and useful traffic, so you can get more money and build your brand a lot quicker!
Thanks for your comment. Nice to see you here for the first time(commenting). Keep commenting 🙂
Hmmmm your comment form looks messed up might be my browser, anyway you have some great points about keeping readers.
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Yup, that problem occured because I was testing a post editor plugin (fckeditor) which also caused some problems to comment part causing “null” text appearing as comment and some other probs.
But it’s fixed now..Thansk for your comment 🙂
Good points, If you want to really establish a good reputation online, one of the most important things you must do is to update your blog regularly. However, focusing on quality over quantity should be our goal…
You made a good point there. One should not forget the quality of the post a blogger is presenting on the blog just in order to show that he is updating blog daily.
So when you say stick to a schedule, if a add a new post twice a week is it important that the updates occur regularly on the same days of the week? I mean is it wrong if one week I add a post on Monday and Thursday, but another week it is Sunday and Thursday?
No. It really doens’t matter on which day you are publishing the articles. On an avg. if you stick to “Monday and Thursday, but another week Sunday and Thursday” schedule, the difference is usually of 3-4 days in both cases which I don’t think will create much of any difference if you are blogging in that schedule from past couple weeks/months.