Week 3 September SiteContent Challenge: Publishing Frequency and Post Length, Weekly Goals

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Monday is on the horizon, a brand new week for you to set your publishing goals for the coming week:

  • How many articles do you want to publish to your website this week?
  • Are you looking for consistent publishing to your website every week?

I showed you how to set your publishing goals in SiteContent here, it also includes links to Kyle and Carson's walkthrough

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How Often Should You Publish to Your Website?

The rule of thumb is 2-3 posts per week, minimum. While it is possible to write 3 articles in one afternoon, and very easy sometimes if you are starting out in a niche where you are very knowledgeable and experienced, in this challenge I'm personally working on creating habit and consistency.

**Consistent posting is important to Google, therefore to your SEO**

I've just seen some very interesting advice given by one of our top contributers here at WA, @Rich, where he commented on a blog about writing frequency today, to summarize what he said to someone there:

  • 2-3 posts a day fantastic, but if you stop publishing at that interval in a few months time you may then experience a slump in your rankings...
  • Also, ensure that you have enough subjects and keywords within your niche to enable 1000 posts a year, otherwise consider publishing 2-3 times a week.

And so we are back to maintaining "a consistent regular publishing schedule of high quality content that you can manage over a long period of time".

How long should your posts be?

**The rule of thumb again is for your posts to be quality original content averaging 1500 words, not all the same length.**

You'll see that SiteContent gets you to set your word goals too. I've noticed however that it records ALL the words you put into SiteContent, not just those that you publish [though they are shown for every individual article]. This means that though I'm setting a goal of 3 articles for my website this week and am aiming for 1500 words each, therefore a 4500 word goal, I will reach my word count goal before I write my 3 articles, as I'm also using SiteContent to record my research and drafts on other articles that I'm not publishing immediately. I wish they'd record the published word count separately and base our 'write status' on that too.

My Results for Week #2 of the September SiteContent Challenge - SiteContent Kicked My Ass!

I did actually complete 3 more articles this week, however I was two hours late on the deadline, SiteContent knows my timezone and doesn't care that I'm not in bed at 2am, it was officially September 16th when I hit the publish button and so it recorded me as having missed my goal of 3 articles before the 15th!!! Well I achieved 3 more articles to my website so I'm both pleased and pretty miffed that I have to look at 'missed' on my record for the rest of the month, HOWEVER that just leaves me pretty motivated to NEVER let that happen again and I will be early next week on my 3 articles :)

You can see my stats now say 7 articles published, whereas last week it was only at 4. Also my write status has improved to level 3 and my word count has gone up to 98% more than other WA members - but it is really the articles published that counts here for the website. You can also see that magistudios webinar is in progress so it is Friday night

This is where I started at the beginning of the month, just 1 article published, so in two weeks with my goals of 3 articles per week, I am now consistently building content.

My New Goals For This Week

These are the new goals that I've set for next Friday, September 22nd, and you can see it is constantly reminding me I was late with my third article OUCH so I'll be early this week!

Remember To Do Your SEO!

Remember that when you publish to your site from SiteContent you still have some editing to do, not only if you want to add images but also you need to do your meta description and title, and tags and categories, as per Jovo's post.

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*How to Change Status from Published to Draft

If you'd like to leave the editing till later then note you can switch from published to draft mode at the top right of your page:

Press edit and you get draft on the menu, and click OK.


Your Turn!

If you want to develop the habit of publishing consistently to your website, then it's the start of a new week, a new opportunity - let's do this! :)

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Thank you for the motivation.

set the goals and dates and see how it will drive you to get it done :)

Wow. Sounds like a lot of 'work'. ;-p

no kidding, the publishing goals don't show the hours of research and training to set up the website and SEO, maybe that is partly reflected in the word count - affiliate marketers really do earn all that 'easy money' :P

Very informative, thank you.

Great guidelines, thanks, Mary.

Wayne

Thanks for the motivation. Can I check where can I get the goal setting pages you have screenshot-ed?

They are in SiteContent, you access that through SiteRubix, that bright blue button to the left, it's in the same drop down menu as SiteManager

When you go into SiteContent you'll see your statistics, click on that to set your goals. I show you how in this blog and also included are links to Kyle's full walkthrough demo of how to use SiteContent and all its features.

Thanks

Thank you for the great motivation, Mary :)

Thanks Carol :)

Best wishes with your goals for the new week!

Good idea, Mary. I have to set standards according to my work schedule. I work about 50 hours a week for 6 days. At my night job, I'm not going to be able to check my emails much because we are going to be in a restricted building for at least 3 days. That means emails are going to accumulate.

Hi Roger, sounds like huge demands on your time there! When people have huge restrictions put on them then sometimes that's when they get even more creative and more productive with the small time they do have. Some thoughts that come to mind for you:

- if it is possible to carry a notebook to write down ideas, these could come to you at the strangest times, and you may not have access to a computer.
- if it is possible to work out content and articles in your head [and write them down on some paper when you have the chance], that way you get to use time that you may be doing something boring like travelling to work, or between tasks. I sometimes do that, frees up some time for fun stuff too :)
- start with a small publishing schedule maybe once a week, and when you get faster you can get twice as much done in the same time :)
- wonder if those WA emails could be filtered so they don't eat into your time - I've switched most of mine off, I cruise the dashboard, use the green globe, and allows likes and comments on my posts to see if I need to reply to anyone, saves a lot of opening emails :)

Well you certainly will make many of us appreciate our time more when we see the hours you are punching in there! Best wishes with the schedule, let us know how you are getting on with it all!

I have one more blog in mind I would like to do.

go for it! :)

That happened to me in week one as I was typing my 2nd article but it put me over what I needed, the clock rang one, the mouse did run and I missed the fun but week two I got you, so week three I see how it needs to be...I wonder if I could reach my goal all in rhyme haha!
I have not done the publish part though as ....I don't know why I just haven't as something just does not feel right with me. I guess I should at least do it once so I know how to do all the SEO stuff.

so your word count struck one before you were done? :)

when you hit publish it will ask you if you want to go edit the article on your site or go write more content - there is a bit of a rush with it and I always want to go write more content! But really you should go look at your site because the article is now published on there and without the meta, tags, categories and images, so unless you put it back into draft mode there is still a little bit of finishing to do.

It is just the simple meta we learned in the early training, just fill in that bit at the end of the wp page that asks for a description in the all in one seo or yoast equivalent.

Yep, the temptation is to just keep writing and researching and not publishing so I really like the actual publishing goals, I could not go to bed on Friday night without meeting those goals and I'm so motivated to get it done early this week... :)

Well as I am finishing building out my site, I am trying to write a post a day so that I always have something in the tank. With my medical issues, some days I just can not be on the computer so by thinking ahead and having stuff all set and ready to go, it's as simple as logging in and hitting publish. Plus at first, I can maintain a constant flow of content.

Hi Mary, I have not set my writing goal yet but have been using Site content regular. Will set my goal when my site is more stable. :)

Whenever you feel ready :)

I post 2 a week and I schedule my post so it's same day of week as previous and same time!

Congrats! That would be direct to wp then? As scheduling isn't set for sitecontent at the moment, though may be in one of the updates. I hear a lot of people can't get the scheduling to work on wp, so you're doing well there.

It's been working for me on word press well. If this was my only job I would do more posting. Only been doing it 1.5 months. My site has made 76 cent.

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