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December 10, 2009 volume 9-issue 45

Your editor: Jan Tallent, rimdigest@usa.net

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Today's Issue Contains:

Publisher's Spot

Featured Article

Frequent Blog Posting

Keeping people interested in your blog, whether it is a business

or personal blog, is key to attracting a lot of regular

visitors. Many blogs have died because people have just lost

interest. The main reason for the lack of interest is simply a

lack of posts by the blogger. Regular, frequent posting, which

will boost your blog’s ranking in search engines, is essential

to the survival of any blog.

You might be asking yourself, what is frequent posting?

How many blog entries should I make on a given week?

How do I make frequent consistently good posts?

What are the reasons for me to post frequently?

In this article, we will go over all of the above.

What is frequent posting?

Frequent blog posting is posting enough to keep your readers

interested. Obviously, people will not want to come back to

a blog that hasn’t been updated in months. They want to see

consistent posting so that they know coming back to check the

blog next week to see if there are more posts won’t be a waste

of time.

How many blog entries should I make each week?

This is one of the tougher questions to answer.

It really depends on the purpose of your blog.

If it’s a personal blog, a weekly or twice weekly update

is an excellent idea. A political/sports/music/religion blog

should have 3-4 posts per week. Business blogs should have

at least 2 posts, but preferably 4 each week.

The thing to remember is that quality counts. Posting frequently

just for the sake of posting frequently tends to result in

subpar posts which people won’t care about. It is important to

find a balance — frequent, quality posts that won’t result in

burnout on your part. Why create 4 poor quality posts each week

when you could post 2 quality posts per week?

How do I create quality postings on a consistent basis?

It’s all about following a consistent pattern of writing.

Maybe you’re not a natural writer and this is difficult.

That’s why we’ll give you an outline to help you.

1. Pick a topic that is interesting to you and to your readers.

Maybe if your blog is a personal blog, you could write about the

latest happenings in Hollywood.

2. Carefully think about what you’ll write about the topic.

It makes it easy to make quality blog postings if you know

exactly what you’ll write. Plot out everything about the post

before even beginning to write it.

3. Before writing your content, pick out some keywords that are

relevant to your blog.

If you naturally use keywords throughout your post, you will

please search engine spiders which will get your blog ranked

higher on search engines. Your visitors won’t mind the use

of keywords if they are used in a tasteful way.

4. Begin writing your post. Don’t limit yourself to a particular

amount of words. Just do what’s natural. And if any blog post is

hard for you, just take a timeout and relax. You should be able

to finish the post a bit later on, after you’ve had some time to

think things through, you should be able to finish the post with

no problems.

Why is frequent posting important?

Blogs are meant to be outlets for individuals or businesses.

They are used to get an opinion out on something and to engage

readers. Readers need to have something that makes them want to

keep coming back to a blog. That something is usually quality,

frequent posts.

Gaining and maintaining visitors isn’t the only reason to post

often in your blog. Catching the eye of a search engine — and

achieving a high ranking — is another valid reason for posting

frequently. Most likely, each posting in your blog features some

keywords or keyword phrases scattered throughout it. Logic says

that the more natural keywords you have on a blog, the better.

Thus, the more posts you make on your blog, the more keywords

you have on there. And the more keywords you have, the more

likely a search engine bot is to crawl your site. The more your

site is crawled by bots, the more likely it is that you will

have a high ranking on a search engine.

P.S. Frequent blog posting can be easy as long as the person

who is posting takes the time to plot out what they’ll write

about. So take a few minutes to think about your post

and then just do it!

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