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Yes I wondered, have you wondered? Is there a best time to blog? Well have no fear, I’ve a search engine near and would you believe when you type in best time to blog you get lots of hits, as opposed to Google’s next search selection, best time to bleed radiators. Let’s just say there are more bloggers than there are do it yourself radiator mechanics searching online.

I’m not surprised who was first on the search. Lorelle on WordPress. I land there a lot when I have questions on blogging and I haven’t counted but I’m certain she is listed in Today.com’s SEO Wiki page a few times.

She too has pondered when is the best time and day to post on your blog… and she does offer great incite on the matter, from when people visit to when they comment or don’t and the ultimate annoyance to all bloggers, when the most spam gets through.

Early on Lorelle gets to the most important consideration in regards to the best time to post and her point is you have to post new content before your readers visit each day. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Most new bloggers focus so much on wanting blog traffic that they post once or twice and then wait for visitors to respond to a few posts. When there is no response they alienate themselves off from their blogs and don’t realize that the first task of the blogger is to post on a regular basis to start to build a visitor base.

So, obviously the easy answer to best time to blog is everyday or as often as possible.

Here are some tips to post regularly and to reach your blog visitors.

Write and post consistently – plan your content a week or two ahead and post in advance if your blog niche allows. You can still be flexible when a relevant topic comes your way unexpectedly.

Pick the same days and times to do your writing – the writers who get the job done are the ones who consistently schedule themselves to write on particular days or during the same time every day.

List your posting schedule – perhaps you are not a daily blogger, let your readers know what days you do post so they can plan to stop by on those days.

Offer RSS Feed subscription info – your readers can sign up to be notified when you post.

Moderate your comments – comments are content and visitors that took the time to respond hope to be heard. Remember to moderate comments and approve them if relevant. Don’t forget to respond to the comment on your site.

If you’ve been blogging a while you are familiar with the dips in traffic when you don’t post consistently. Just know that you can gain it back when you begin to post consistently again. If you’re a new blogger you may be worrying about 101 things related to blogging all at once and the reality is it takes time to build traffic. It is better to start with a strong foundation of posting consistently than trying to do 100 other things related to blogging all at once.

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