How to be a rockstar blogger – part 5

Write consistently – themes, timing, timeless The best tip I can give you about becoming a Rock Star Blogger is to write consistently both in time and subject. Writing on your blog on a daily basis is a must for those starting out if you want to have a chance of competing with others in your field. If you can’t do it daily, then you need to be thinking in terms of several times each week. Once a week is a poor third and it will take you much longer to reach any goals you have set yourself. When I ran the Hysterectomy Association I would write on a daily basis for the first five years, remember this was the early days of the web and blogging was only just getting started so please don’t take this as any sort of a guide for how long you might be doing it today. Within a few years though I’d accumulated so much material that for almost any search that people made at least one of my pages or posts would pop up. It meant that I had a good stream of what is called ‘organic traffic’ across all the main search engines. That was when I moved to a once or twice weekly schedule. In addition, to my own posts, news and updates, I also added what is called user-generated content in the form of personal stories from women who were using the website. When I closed the site there were around 3,000 pages and posts and thousands of comments. And the forums, at the point of closing, had almost 500,000 individual posts in the many different conversations and thre...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Writing Business blogging rockstar blogger Source Type: news