It’s a bit disappointing to go to a favourite blog and find they have no new updates at the time you expect them to be there.
What time do you make your blog posts? Even if you don’t choose (or have available) scheduled blog posts you can pick a good time for making a post go live to your blog. Whether you post every day or a few days a week or just every Tuesday, you should have some kind of a planned posting time.
I was posting at 6:00AM for several months. I thought that would be a decent time to get it out there, not too early and yet early enough. However, one day I changed it. It made a difference! I was surprised. Now I post at 8:00AM, sometimes 9:00AM. Not exactly, I’m just not an exact kind of grrl. I only change the hour on my scheduled post time, not the minutes.
After changing my post time I started getting more reader comments. Comments being the gold nugget when you are blogging and feeling kind of unnoticed and all wallflowery. So, more comments are nice and I’m trying to write better with more of the interesting ideas I get when I’m in the shower versus stuff that I think will make a post so I can stick to my daily post schedule. Which is also a good thing. Martha Stewart would be proud!
Since making this change I read that many people tend to read other blogs during the morning, between 8:00 and 9:00AM. This is also the time they make their own blog posts too. I guess people get to work early and have that hour before they have to be on the clock. I’ve done that, especially when I had to bus in the winter and you never knew how late you could be on those really cold days when you would much rather sneak off from work and just sit in a nice, warm and cosy coffee shop. But, I digress…
Consider what a prime posting time would be for you. If you can schedule posts you can set them up for any time you choose. If you don’t have that option see what time you are usually able to post. It is a good idea to stick to the same time. That way people will know when they can expect your updates, not just by the day of the week but by the hands of the clock too.
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