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Day 9 of The 100 Days To Webpage Excellence Guide

In order to keep readers interested in your Blog you need to regularly generate content.  Your visitors will come to expect a pattern of blog posts from you.  If you post in a sporadic fashion, or don’t post at all, they will likely not come back.

The easiest way to make sure that you are writing regular content is to set yourself a goal of writing one blog post per day.   If you make sure to post everyday find that several good things occur

• You will get a steady stream of inbound links - If your posts are quality, writing one post a day will be enough to generate a steady stream of inbound links from other bloggers who read your site and like what they see.  These links will be important both for direct referrals in the short term, and search engine rankings in the long term.
• You will get a large database of content - The more pages that you have indexed in the search engines, the more likely you are to get hits.  You will find that writing a page of content a day will rapidly build up your total content.  Although you won’t have too many search hits right at the beginning, keep it up and both your search rankings, and the total number of pages being hit by the search engines, will climb.
• You won’t lose interest in your site - Webpages and blogs can take a lot of work before they make money.  If you work on them sporadically you are much more likely to give up before you ever make a profit.  By setting a goal of making one post per day you will ensure that you keep a vested interest in your page, and that you will make money off it if.

If you can’t do one post a day, try three a week, or one a week.  However the less frequently you post, the higher quality each post will have to be.  If you are posting several times a day, many readers will forgive you if some of your posts aren’t as good.  However if you are only posting once a week, it should be a noteworthy mass of content, and should attract a lot of attention.

Another important thing is that you keep your posting schedule regular.  It won’t do to write 6 posts one day, and then not have any more posts coming for a week.  You want to make sure that your readers always see fresh content when they come to your page.  Luckily Wordpress has a handy option of delaying your blog posts.  You can write them all in a batch at once, then spread them out over the course of a week.  Additionally this is great if you are writing a series of posts.  It will enable you to keep your train of thought, and edit your previous posts if you decide you want to change the order of your series.