I have been blogging since 2010 and my family members are very much aware of my mindset. Whenever I do the household chores with more interest like trying out new recipes in the kitchen, they understand that I’ve updated my blog with a good post. Likewise, if I go mad or get frustrated over petty things, they easily realize that I haven’t published a post for a long time. You might be taken aback by this revelation and may also wonder with this happening but it is the truth!
Okay, let’s get into the topic!
What is the need of every blogger? Making Money? Skill improvement? But these are secondary desires of the passionate bloggers. If you’re a devoted blogger, I hope that you’ve guessed the exact answer!
Yes, it’s nothing but the “Traffic”.
- What is the key to get traffic?
- How to decrease the Alexa rank?
- What is the best tactic to make your blog as a crucial source of information for your readers?
The answer for the above three question is same and simple!
Of course, it is “Consistency”.
So, I landed on Jane’s blog to insist the importance of blogging consistency and some practical ways to support it.
What is blogging consistency?
In blogging, consistency does not only means publishing the new blog posts to keep your blog updated; it also means the promotion of your blog posts and pleasure to engage with your audience through social media and blog comments.
Before checking some helpful tips to keep up the blogging consistency, it would be better to understand its significance to blog in an upright mode.
Why consistency is the key to blogging?
Better SEO
As I’m a faithful blogger, I do agree with the evergreen blogging proverb “Content is the King”
But, who is the Queen? I’d say “Post Frequency” is the Queen.
If both emperors show keen attention in doing right things for the people, then how would be the wealth of the country? It would be marvellous to tackle the thorny circumstances like flood, famine etc. Am I right?
The same will occur in blogging SEO too. Google and other search engines always reward your fresh content with good frequency. Say, if you’re crafting the good quality posts but not supporting the regularity in delivering the content for your readers, then how come the search engine crawlers trust your blog?
So, create the best post scheduling for your blog as it would boost your SERPs. The more consistent content you create, the more chances to improve your SEO rankings for several keyword phrases.
Sometimes, consistent good-quality posts would help to avoid the problematic situations raised by Google penguin updates as well. If you follow a consistency in publishing the post, search engine bots will understand when to crawl your blog and thus your fresh content will quickly be indexed in search engines.
Blogging is like exercise
If you’re an educated person, you might have known the importance of taking care of your health. What would you do to maintain a good health? The most popular choice is “Exercise”, isn’t it?
To stay healthy, you would decide and fix timelines to exercise regularly, say 40-50 mins everyday. What would have happen if you’re irregular at your workout goal? You will feel lazy to do it daily and obviously, your health will get spoil. I assume that am right here!
Blogging is like exercise. If you haven’t updated your blog for a long time, it would be hard to get going again and finally your blog will be destroyed. Even though you struggle a bit in early days of blogging to maintain the post consistency, once you get practised to do so, you can preserve a healthy blog. Thus, more priority should be given to keep up the post constancy and spend quality time to connect with your audience through social networks. .
Earn Brand Authority
Say, you’re going to a general store to purchase your ideal things. If that specific shop has all kind of latest products you wish to buy, then you’ll never deny yourself from going to that branded shop to buy the needed stuff once more.
Because, you believe in the trademark of that shop and give your constant presence & support over there. But, if the shop fails to hold your favourite/trendy things, you’ll excuse the shop owner for once or twice and would think to change the store if they continue to do the mistake by not holding your desired stuff.
The same works in Blogging as well!
Consistent blog posts with trendy matters would make you to become a reliable person in front of your visitors. Delivering steadfast quality content in unfailing way helps to convert your guest audience into loyal readers. Finally you’ll be considered as a trusted blogger by newbie & fellow bloggers and thus gaining brand authority to your blog.
Get Excellent Stats
I still remember my engineering college days where I scored distinction because of my unwavering study habits. I followed a neat timetable to run my academic tasks and this helped me a lot to grab great grade on every subject.
I’m providing the writing service to one of the client and got bulk order to write with huge pay due to my stability in delivering the quality content. So, consistency matters a lot in every aspect of life.
Some blogging stats like Alexa rank, SERP and Page Authority are related to post frequency. Your irregularity in publishing the blog post would affect these essential stats of your blog. Thus, it would be better to keep up the blog post constancy to please the search engines and get outstanding blog stats.
Create community
Let’s imagine that you’re a hard worker who is trying to become a leader in specific area. While putting your consistent efforts to thrive in your filed, you may lose your self-confidence and feel discouraged at times. What would be your exact need to protect yourself from that dreadful circumstance?
A group of people who build an environment of support and motivate you to go ahead with confidence, Am I correct?
The same needed in blogging too!
Getting and sustaining the audience is hard. But it can be made easy through consistent blogging. Yes, you can attract huge eyeballs if you blog consistently.
After recognizing your uniformity, they will keep supporting you with their often visits and do spread your content on their network. Whenever you need any help, they would show keen interest in giving their hand through some ways.
I’ve created a good community for my blog with my immovable habit and I’m happy about it. They keep on encouraging me with parsing words in social media and leaving their comments for my blog posts.
With their support, I can instantly boost to blog with confidence and I still look forward in getting more supporters to build awareness for my blog’s brand name.
I hope that you’re now familiar with the value of blogging consistency. Without further ado, let me discuss some sensible tips to blog consistently without burning out.
How to blog consistently without become exhausted?
“Consistency is the essential factor to a successful blog”
Below are some of the practical tips to support the regularity in blogging.
#1 Don’t blog without a calendar
First thing you should identify the time when your creative juices are flowing. Then, you’ve to create an editorial calendar with the details of your working time (Writing time) to follow. Prepare the schedule with no strict rules and thus you can follow it with no pain.
You may use Google calendar to write the post topics to be written for next month and impose the deadlines. Also include the tasks to be done on social media, amount of time to spend for blog commenting and replying back to your post comments. These pre-loading activities would let you to blog in a consistent manner.
I never write blog posts with the tired of work at home as it would suck my time. I always take a power nap before writing any article to bring originality and complete it in a quick way.
I use excel sheet to fill the titles of my upcoming blog posts with cut-off date and after publishing the post, I never forget to fill the “Completed” column as it will nudge me to write the next planned post.
#2 Read daily
Reading allows you to refresh your mind and inspire to get new ideas. I’d say that the reading habit is the most efficient self-development tactic which would often let you to write.
So, visit some active blogs like QuickSprout, BackLinko, BloggingWizard, TechTricksWorld or any niche blog posts which interests to you. If time is your biggest constraint like me, learn to read fast or listen to audio books & podcasts.
These reading actions will let to track the potential content ideas and shove you to write for your blog on daily basis.
Every day, I do visit some admirable blogs to perk up my reading habit, perform instant blog commenting after reading the blog posts and do share them on social networks.
I believe that you’re familiar with the power of blog commenting and social sharing that never fails to increase your brand awareness.
#3 Keep a notepad with you
Part of staying close to your blog would become easy by keeping the ideas close to you. Yes, if you write down the information to craft the blog posts, then you’re on the precise track to blog with consistency.
You’re visiting so many blogs and being present on social media where the bloggers are aggressively sharing their content. While coming across a stimulating content, you may think that it could be explained or presented in a better way.
So, always stay with a notepad to write down the flow of thoughts and thus you could write the upcoming posts faster and better.
I use a notepad with the folder name “post Ideas” to write the notes and thus I didn’t scratch my head till now on “What to write?” This is my great time-saving strategy which helps me to blog without fail as I always prefer to choose the topic in advance from my notepad and start to write.
Not only online, I do have a scribbling pad at my kitchen to write down any new initiative that strikes my mind. Since I’m carry out these notifying deeds, I don’t have to invest my time my time in searching of blog topics to write.
(If you doubt with my action, you may ask Jane as I requested her to choose 1 topic out of 10 to contribute my guest post)
#4 Follow a crafting style
This is the most important step to be followed to sustain the blog post consistency. Certainly, you should follow a unique style to craft your blog posts.
If you baffle with some questions, “How to start the blog post?” “What is the best anatomy of blog post?” “Which is the perfect format to engage the readers?” then, how would you support the consistency in blogging?
Thus, you need to follow a good blog post template to finish writing the chosen topic on time.
If you’re my regular reader, then might have noticed my post style! Usually I write like the below flow chart!
#5 Save posts in draft by bulk writing
It is always recommended that you should save some posts in your WordPress draft. Even you’ve planned well to blog habitually, things inevitably happen. You may fall sick or get busy with personal stuff at time.
When you get time, write as many as blog posts you can. At least get your thoughts down in draft to brainstorm later.
If you’re familiar with your blog niche, it is more likely to get several posts in drafts in a few hours. Then develop the ideas as posts and save them in queue. This will help you to keep your schedule consistent with not much stress to your blogging profession.
My approach is to start saving the posts in drafts when the inspiration hits and work on them one by one until they get published. This attitude aids me to manage the steadiness in blogging when I go for vacation and during illness.
One line tips to blog consistently
- Don’t plan too much and set unrealistic expectation in blogging schedule.
- Spend good time in social media and blogging communities to shout out your blog.
- Target your audience and understand their needs.
- Invite well-known bloggers as guest authors.
- Plan to publish list type and round-up blog posts.
Conclusion
There is nothing to conclude! I hope that I’m very clear in explaining each point on why and how to blog in a consistent manner. If you wanna become a successful blogger, try to be a consistent blogger. With input as consistency, you’ll acquire the following 3Ts as outputs!
Consistency = Trust + Traffic + Team Support
You’ll get what you deserve! Supplying good quality content in a stable manner is the absolute way to make your audience happy. If you fail to satisfy your readers, you will never get the love from search engines.
What do you say? Do you agree with my viewpoints on blogging consistency? Did I miss any essential method to blog regularly? I’d like to know your valuable views, so please leave your opinion in comment section.
Nirmala is a dedicated blogger who blogs about technology, social media, online money making and blogging on MyMagicFundas. Writing is her passion and helping others is her best attitude. You may connect with her on Google Plus to grab information on trendy stuff.
This is an awesome article to read Jane. Can you please tell me what is the best time to publish a post? Means is there a way to find out the time when most people visit a blog? Or may be when Google Crawler crawl a blog. I often found that some post index in Google in 3-4 hours and some may take 1-2 days. What could be the reason for that?
Hi Santanu,
Thanks for getting time to read my post.
Here are my best answers to your queries!
1. There is so such “best time” to publish the posts. You need to fix an exact time (After doing some experiments) and stick to it. Say, If you publish the post on Monday & Friday morning, just follow the same on every week. So that your audience and search engine bots would recognize your regularity.
2. Blog posts will get indexed in search engines based on various factors like age of your blog, quality of your post, on-page SEO, outbound & internal links, image optimization and so on.
Usually, my blog posts take 1 day to crawl by the search engines even I tried my best SEO.
But I’ve expert blogging friends and their posts get indexed within 2-3 hours. So, I am still trying to perform an enhanced blogging.
I would request Jane to correct if I’ve written anything wrong in this reply comment.
Hi Jane,
I read for at least 30 minutes daily to keep those blogging ideas flowing.
Gotta go time to write another post
Fab tips Jane!
Ryan
Hey Ryan,
Its me here this time on PBS, not Jane
Good to know your reading tactic, I’m already following it
Thanks for adding your comment.
Hi Nirmala
I hope you would also neglect my same negligence in my main comments.
So your writing style has that much flexibility to be fully synch with the key style of a blog where you are writing.
Thanks a lot.
No issues Mi sir, your negligence is neglected
Thanks for your great appreciation, means a lot
Nirmala you’re totally right. If one wants to earn money from his blog, then he needs to be consistent. A blog which is regularly updated will be able to get better DA, better Alexa and advertisers too get attracted to such blogs. One can earn more money online by having a blog which is updated regularly.
Scheduling posts is very necessary. During exams I don’t get time to write for my blogs and that’s why I try to write the upcoming posts well in advance. I know some bloggers who post blog posts on 2 days only in a week and rest of the days they are busy in reading or working on other projects.
Nirmala I hope that you’ll not only keep coming with such amazing guest posts like this one, but at the same time will also write blog posts for your blog too regularly.
Really well written and detailed account. I really like how you used the daily life parallels and anecdotes during explaining the complexities and importance.
Blogging consistently is important for traffic as you say, but it is even more important to keep oneself fresh, on lookout for new ideas. I intend to do so regularly and follow a schedule, challenge myself. However I am more of a weekly scheduler. I find it fascinating that you can schedule your ideas for post on Google calendar. Kudos!
Hi Amit,
Thanks for adding your comment, nice to know your blogging consistency and great that you’re following a schedule for blogging.
When we compare things, it would be quite interesting and that too with day to day activities, it would sound more and thus I’ve done and am really glad you liked it
Thanks again for sharing your blogging experience and views on my guest post, have a great weekend
Hello Nirmala,
Awesome post…….!!!
Consistency is the key element in successful blogging because regularly updated content appreciated by readers as well as search engines also.
I completely agree with points you shared about blogging i.e.
-Blogging is like a exercise
-Don’t blog without calender
-Read daily
-Keep notpad with you
Specifically I appreciate your suggestion that note down every informative stuff whenever you get. Ya your absolutely right that most of the times we failed to implement important points which stored in human memory.
Overall article is a bunch of valuable information for bloggers specifically newbies who step in blogging world.
Thanks for sharing such a valuable stuff with us…..Have a great day ahead…….!!!
Regards,
Gangadhar
Gangadhar,
Cheers that you’re accepting my shared points on blogging regularity.
You are very exact! Consistent content would make the audience happy and it is the best way to please the search engines as our authority is getting improved with the regular blogging activities.
Noting down some ideas to brainstorm is very essential in blogging and I’m doing it from long. Hope, it might be the reason for standing out from the crowd (Not like expert but somewhat when compared to fellow bloggers)
Good to get your feedback, thanks for your support through comment, keep blogging
Hi Mohit,
Thanks for your prasing words, I’d like to write more and better.
Yeah, you’re very exact! Publishing good quality posts in a regular manner would attract more eyeballs and help the blog to get good stats. The same I’ve insisted in the post!
Great that you’re writing the blog posts in advance to manage time during your exams, keep your good work.
Hi,
great tips! And not just a few, but lots and lots
Planning has been one of the best decisions I have made. Not so much on what content when, but especially when to take the time to write. I know have a special ‘blog day’, a day where I do my writing. I reserve time and I go to my favorite coffee shop. It is now a day I really look forward to. And it relaxes me the rest of the week, because I know I have planned this in. I don’t have to think all week: I should be writing… Or, when am I going to write… I’ve got it covered!
It works for me!
I am now also seeing how to plan the promotion in. I think I am going to really plan in time to ‘be on twitter’, time to ‘be on google+” etc… I haven’t been doing that, because I was thinking, well I already spend a lot of time on those platforms, so why plan it? But then you are busy, doing all kinds of other stuff and a week passes without having done any real promotion.
So I am deciding right now to plan that in as well
Maybe another day at my favorite coffee shop 
Keep writing!
Live, Live, Enjoy.
Linda
Hi Linda,
Love to read about you and your favourite coffee shop
Thanks for finding time to read my guest post and delighted with your appreciation.
Yes, planning is indeed needful for the bloggers instead of spending time in unessential stuff. It would be really awesome if you plan properly to promote the blog posts on social media, I’m sure that you’ll never deny to plan it again.
Thanks again for leaving your wonderful comment, I feel good as I got the opportunity to know about your blogging actions through this post
Great ideas Jane and Nirmala. This is something I struggle with as I’m focusing my time on creating products first then content, but storing posts in draft if I have an idea is a great way. I’ll try to implement some of these.
Hi Ben,
Its good to know about through this guest post. Great that you’re focusing to create your own products and let me know its details
Saving the posts in draft will help us to stay away from writer’s block. Believe me, I have been blogging for the past 5 years and till now, I didn’t experience blogging burn out.
Keep on reading some valuable stuff and noting down the ideas would let us to blog in an upright way.
Thanks for getting time to read my guest post
Hi Jane
You are right blogging without consistency means wasting our own time and of Google’s too. But the worst effect of inconsistency in blogging may be seen on people who never try to come back on a blog that is not regularly updated.
Who like to visit a shop for buying anything that my not be surely open in fixed timings.
Your idea of starting a blog with the step by step approach to help the readers begin a post like a learner and end it like a scholar is wonderful.
Procrastination is the worst enemy of blogging consistency and as you pointed it needs will power to plan your blogging schedule and then stick to it.
Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful post.
Have a great rest of the week.
Hi Mi Sir,
Replying to you on behalf of Jane (lolz)
Yeah, you’re view are always wonderful and thanks for your kind words.
As I specified in the post, consistency creates brand name for our blog. This is the beneficial stuff i grabbed from my mentor (Atish). He didn’t teach me much, but I’m closely watching his blogging activities with regularity and learning the same by myself.
I was poor in SEO at my earlier stage of blogging but my post constancy brought me up in the blogosphere
Hi Nirmala Di,
Blogging with consistency is very important to make blog stand out of the crowd. It not only help to maintain blog performance but it also help blog to be regular on google.
Your tips are always helpful, keep updating and encouraging with such useful stuffs.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
>SK Lohar
Hi Shiv,
Good to see you here with an appealing comment. You’re busy with day job but never miss to leave your views on my posts. It shows your blogging passion and I feel good that I have loyal readers like you.
I’m agreeing with your opinion and I’m glad that my tips encourage you to do an enriched blogging. Stay tuned
Your tips are always encouraging for me. And I am sure its not only me there are many other like me who are getting boost up with such tips from you.
Since, you always share your genuine and effective experience with us then how can I miss such article delivered from you.
Thanks again for sharing this tips!
>SK Lohar
Hi Shiv bro,
You made my day through your nice comments here and MMF as well, thanks!
I’m so happy that my tips inspire you to blog and you’re considering my experience as genuine, really means a lot. Keep blogging
Hi Nirmala and Hane,
The title dragged me here as it suits my motive to blog consistently and almost daily. I agree with all the points in the article and what I liked most is the King and Queen comparison over the content kingdom.
Post frequency will surely help any blogger decrease Alexa rank. Yes, it also helps to get more subscribers consistently. It improves the brand popularity and creates a group of our own followers. I don’t know what cooking takes but composing a blog post with right amount of salt and pepper would take more than 1 hour(I think). So, I think the daily exercise should be given more dedicated time to get six packs of success :p
Thanks for sharing! have a good day both of you
Good piece of motivation. I think maintaining the post topics in a Excel sheet is a good way to keep track. I use Notes to write down new topics that flow randomly in mind.
And I have so many posts in drafts but I’m too lazy that some of my posts in drafts got outdated and decided not to publish or continue writing them again.
Motivation and Consistency are needed for a successful Blogger !!
Apart from these, Good Health is also an issue !!
Thanks for this article Jane and Thank you for stressing the importance of health on Blogging !!
I have learned to accept that I can only post on my blog once per month at this point Jane.
I’m applying those tips you mentioned and I am looking forward to branching out and doing guest blogging soon but will keep my blog to 1 post per month still
Soon, I hope I can easily blog like you can!
Hi Nirmala maam,
Good to see you here at Jane maam’s blog. I have been reading Jane maam’s blog since my inception. May it be google authorship doubts or any ohter blogging doubt, PBS was my go to place and is still. LOL When I saw Jane maam’s dosplash I was thinking to make one myself and that too at a time when I was myself not having a blog.
I am glad that you have come up with such an interesting topic here Nirmala maam. In order to succeed with anything, consistency is the key. I also like your picture infographic above where you have displayed the rules of consistent blogging. thanks for writing this topic maam.
Have a good weekend Nirmala maam and Jane maam.
Hi Nirmala,
This is really a good post, your all points are considerable. But now i am afraid that I don’t update my blog regularly as I am part-time blogger so due to my busy schedule I don’t write enough articles for my blog but yes when I start writing I always write with my heart. Please give sugesstion how to manage or it ok to update blog once or twice in a week.
BTW really thanks for a great post
My first visit here! Feeling quite notified by the info that Nirmala Ma’am provide in this beautifully written post. Well Ma’am Blogging on regular basics does help in maintaining a good blog. If we don’t blog regularly or suppose we update content in our site on irregular intervals than more likely chances are their for the visitors and readers to avoid this does not only creating downfall of traffic but trust.
I have noticed this in my blog and trying my best and well ideas provided in this post which will take me to next level.
Have a great time