Timing – The Key To Exploding Your Blog Traffic Is Timing Your Blog Posts.
Few days ago, I was writing a blog post promoting different kinds of music equipments! A week after that, that blog post received only 10 comments. But I have noticed that there are times when I write a new blog post and receive 76 comments instead of 10. It is the same message, the same music equipment, but how could there be such a big gap between the response rates of those two posts?
I quickly scoured through the net, trying to find an answer, until one day I stumbled across one term: "response rate". Have you ever heard about this term? To put it simply, response rate is the likelihood of your readers performing the type of action you want them to do.
My study solidifies my opinion that the timing difference has a great impact on the response rate of my blog post. Actually it is not a new concept in the marketing world. Marketers and entrepreneurs have learned since a long time ago that the ads they put on Monday will get different response from Saturday.
Let's discuss the different timing elements that you can use to maximize your blog's response rates:
Timing Element No 1 – Avoid Public Holidays
Publishing content on public holidays…I would say that is just crazy! With modern life already being too hectic, public holiday is like an oasis in the middle of a desert. Everybody wants to go out, play with their friends or loved ones and that means nobody will read your post. So avoid publishing content on public holidays! Instead, use those days to prepare yourself with hectic tasks that you would be having once the holiday over.
Timing Element No 2 – Wednesday Is Better Than Monday
Scientific research has proven that putting ads on Monday is a useless effort. People are usually very busy on a Sunday, with a lot of meetings, tasks and negotiations to do. This is the reason why advertising rate is much lower on Sunday.
The same principle also applies to your blog. On the same token, Wednesday is the best day of the week for publishing content on your blog, because you will usually get the highest response rate on this day. The reason behind this is that people have much more free time on Wednesday compared to Sunday but compared to the weekends, they are still in a working mode on Wednesday.
Timing Element No 3 – Avoid Bombarding Your Readers
There is an old adage that "less is better". That can be applied to blog as well. I remember subscribing to one blog which was about soccer. At the beginning it was fun, but soon the blog drove me crazy with a new update almost every 2 hours!
Remember that your readers have a life outside the realm of internet, so don't drive them crazy by bombarding them with too many posts at a time. Generally speaking, just two posts per week are enough.
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Earn You a Six-Figure Income with Blogs
The advancement of the World Wide Web has brought upon us several kinds of income opportunities that we have never seen before! I just read about a kid who has made $1.5 billion! Ordinary mom and pop have generated over $200,000 per year selling their cooking recipes, while high school students are suddenly being looked upon as political advisors!
Just few years back, building your presence on internet through a website could cost you thousands of dollars, something that most of us unable to afford, but today, you can build your presence online for free using what is popularly known as blogging.
Blogging, most popularly known as online diary, has exploded in popularity in recent years. People with no web design and development skills whatsoever can start blogging in just 5 minutes. Thanks to the recent free popular service called blogspot.com, blogging has never been easier!
The Income Potential of Millions Dollars
I remember that just few years back in 2006, there was this 23 years old school dropout kid making 5 figures income every month from blogspot.com. From that day onwards, I knew that there is a potential of earning millions of dollars from blogging.
The ever growing popularity of blogging in recent years just confirmed my belief. Can you imagine working from anywhere, at anytime and being paid $100,000 per year simply for writing blog posts? Actually, there are several people who earn even more than $100,000 per year from their blogs!
Share Your Ideas With The World
Perhaps, just like me, you too love to write and want to share your opinion with world. A blog can make your dream come true. People from different countries can read your blog. You can share knowledge about anything, from political issues to teenager issues. What is even more interesting is the fact that you can build friends from many different countries from the comfort of your bedroom!
The First Step Toward Your First Million Dollars
Don't have any capital to invest at all? Don't worry; you don't need money in order to setup a blog. You can start blogging using blogspot.com which is a free blogging service!
Personally, I prefer wordpress.com; nowadays web hosting has become very affordable and most good web hosts will have a 1-click install feature for Wordpress, so you don't need to mess around with technical issues! If you ask me, I prefer doing business and making money rather than handling these technical issues.
Once your blog is setup, you can join several affiliate programs in order to promote their products on your blog and make money every time a visitor buys a product from your affiliate link. Just go to associateprograms.com and clickbank.com and you will find many different products you can promote, ranging from music to satellite TV!
Being an affiliate means that whenever someone buys a merchant's product through your link, you will get paid. Once you sign up with each of these affiliate programs, you will be given a unique link which you can embed into the content of your blog post. The rest of the game is very simple: just keep posting good content on your blog and get backlinks from fellow bloggers!
As a matter of fact, this is how the 23 years old kid about whom I told you earlier in this article could make 5 figures income every month!
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What You Should Know About Running Multiple Blogs
At some point in your blogging career, there will come a time when you will have to choose between running multiple blogs and a single blog. This decision is however, not an easy one to take. There are advantages and disadvantages for both sides. Let's discuss it first from the point of view of advantages.
Advantages of Running Multiple Blogs:
1. Leverage Your Income
If you're like me, you rely mainly on blogs for your primary source of income! As such, the more blogs you are able to create, the fatter would be your paycheck! Let's put an example: if one blog earns you $200 per month, running 10 blogs will earn you over $2000 per month! Can you imagine how much you could earn if you had 100 blogs?
2. Better Influence
A blog represents your online presence. For some people it is not the monetary gains which motivate them to write blogs; rather, it is the kind of exposure, the influence they would have is what makes them interested.
Take the case of one of my friends; he doesn't care if his blog earns him any revenue or not, he just enjoys writing about ozone issues. If you are like him, you might find that the more blogs you have, the bigger would be your influence!
3. Multiple Source of Income
There is an old adage that goes like: "never put all your eggs in one basket". This rings true for blogs as well. By having multiple blogs you will feel safe and won't gave to worry if anything bad happens with one of your blogs, since you have other sources of income!
Now that we have discussed 3 popular advantages of running multiple blogs, let's discuss the disadvantages as well.
Disadvantages of Running Multiple Blogs:
1. Limited Time
If you are working 8 hours a day just like me, you might find it difficult to write posts for 100 blogs regularly. The maintenance issue should become your primary consideration here. Yes, there are softwares which can help you by automating this part, but to some degree you will still hold the main responsibility for the content of your blogs.
2. Getting Burnt Out
Unless you are a very talented writer, writing for multiple subjects can make you run out of fresh ideas very quickly. In this case you might want to write only on one or two topics that you know very well, rather than writing on 100 different subjects you know nothing about!
3. Quality Issue
Running multiple blogs means dividing your attention among multiple projects. This can result in the decrease in quality of your blog's content. You might want to focus on writing 1 or 2 articles rather than scribbling 100 posts. After all it is the quality of your blog's content which matters at the end of the day!
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