The September SiteContent Challenge, Set Your Website Writing and Publishing Goals

Help with Writing and Publishing to Our Websites

Did you know there is a content writing resource on the WA platform that allows us to set writing and publishing goals for our website, it is SiteContent.

It allows us to set goals and it keeps track of our progress, telling us how many words we've written and whether we are on target with our article and publishing goals for that day/week/month.

It's the start of a new month, a great time to set goals. I'm pumped up to pump out content for my website and set new goals for this month, this time using SiteContent to keep me on track

Spelling and Grammar Check

It has many other features including spelling and grammar check, this tempts people to want to go take content from their site and put it through SiteContent but really that sort of two way street is not recommended - best to create new content in the SiteContent then publish it to your site from there.

Articles Indexed in Google

As well as the motivation and personal challenge aspect, a feature I particularly like is it tells us when our posts/pages have been indexed in Google.

Updates Being Rolled Out to SiteContent All the Time

SiteContent has just updated to allow us to put in images and has a very sophisticated image platform with it now. Other updates will be rolled out in time, see Carson's recent blog on this https://my.wealthyaffiliate.co...

Writing in SiteContent vs Direct to Wordpress

I've tried writing direct into wordpress and loved it except my laptop keeps losing connectivity with the router so many times my content did not save - the sudden threat of losing your work is heart attack territory and though I've figured out a few ways to copy and paste and not lose everything, I can't be going through that stress every time I go to press update or publish while in wordpress. I've also used google docs, again image inserting is at the other side, and it's harder to keep track of my stuff in docs compared to SiteContent. Plus SiteContent publishes at the click of a button.

Motivation, Habit, Consistency = Google Juice and Improved SEO

Motivation and habit formation are some of the biggest challenges for consistent publishing to our websites, when really Google is rewarding sites that publish a minimum of 2-3 times a week, for good SEO.

Here is a snapshot of my current status within SiteContent:

My goal is to write 3 articles a week, in this niche approximately 1500 words per article, so that's 4,500 words per week - now instead of aiming for a month here, which would be that multiplied by 4, [an 18,000 words target with 12 published articles in the month], I'm actually going to set SiteContent to a weekly goal, which makes it look smaller [!].

First thing to do is click on View Statistics

Now you set the number of words/articles and choose the time frame, to do this simply click edit goal and the boxes will open up to let you put in number of words/articles. And to set the date just click on the calendar icon in the date, as in this pic

So look how I just edit the goals to 4500 words, and the date to next Friday Sept 8th, with a publishing target of 3 articles for Sept 8th too.

And every time I come in here to write, SiteContent is going to track and show me my progress in achieving the goals I set.

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Check out Carson's introduction to SiteContent here:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.co...

And check out Kyle's complete SiteContent walkthrough showing all the features and how to get the most out of it in this video here, @19.53 is where he shows you goal setting:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.co...

Remember to check out the recent updates to SiteContent here

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.co...

Let me know if you are in for the September SiteContent Challenge, and what your publishing goals for this month are!

*Remember that if you miss the start of the month, then SiteContent allows you to make custom target times of dates, days or weeks, or any date you choose - the start of a new week, Monday, is always a good time too!

MozMary