I never really thought about if there was an optimal time to publish my blog posts and articles, I was always more concerned about publishing “enough” content. But now that I am pretty much on a writing schedule, I can concentrate on tweaking other aspects of my writing. One being learning when the optimum time is to publish my articles. Want to figure it out too?

About a year back, I learned from a blogging coach that it would be a wise SEO move if I published my articles at a certain time of day – everyday. She was right. I’ve seen the results. More organic search traffic to my sites. There are several reasons for this:

*Most Important
1. You will teach the search engines to spider your website at the same time everyday. This ensures that your content is indexed and up on the web on a regular basis. Therefore when people conduct online searches using your keywords, your content will show in the results, and people will visit your blog.

2. You can build a large and loyal following of readers when they learn to expect articles at the same time everyday from you. These are the types of visitors that tweet your articles, bookmark them, etc. They spread your message for you and attract even more traffic to your articles.

3. You will train yourself to write consistently, which will increase your productivity. Giving your community of readers and the search engines a reason to visit your blog everyday is enough incentive for me to make sure that I follow through. While there are those days when I might not get the articles written, it’s okay,

4. You can catch the wave when your audience typically goes online. This is different for every niche, but the point is to get an idea of when your readers are generally online. Do your members have regular 9 to 5 jobs and are online after rush hour? Say 7pm or 8pm? Are your members WAHMs who go online when their children are down for their first nap? Perhaps 10 or 11am? Whatever that time may be for you, it’s a good idea to publish your articles about an hour before that time. That way your articles are in their Twitter stream, etc. AND your articles will be up online when they go and visit your site for the day.

Q: So what time should you publish your blog posts?
A: Everyday at the same time, preferably a little while before the readers in your niche are online.

*Bonus Tip
Remember that you can write as many articles as you want and schedule them to publish whatever day AND time you want. Below is an example of where you edit this in a Wordpress blog. Just go to publish immediately and click the edit link. Change the day and time and click “schedule“. I do this often, because I like to spend other days working on other aspects of my business – not just publishing blog articles.

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Looking for a little inspiration to get your juices flowing? Hey, I’ve been there a zillion times. On those days where the article ideas are just not coming to you, here are some February article ideas (holidays) you can write about and/or tie-in to your business.

February is American Heart Month – it’s important especially to write about heart disease in regards to women. It is the #1 disease for women, but many doctors have been trained and are still focused on heart disease in men.

February is Black History Month – you can write about so many historical and current figures who have made an impact in U.S. history.

February is National Children’s Dental Month – this is a big topic in my house because of my daughter who is on the autism spectrum. Dentist visits are especially hard for kids on the spectrum and so we focus a lot on better dental health.

Holidays Include:

Feb 2 – Ground Hog Day (we missed it but save it for next year or you can write about what it means that they groundhog did or didn’t see his shadow:)

Feb 6 – Pay A Compliment Day

Feb 8 – Kite Flying Day & Table Manners Week

Feb 12 – Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday

Feb 14 – Valentine’s Day (great affiliate article marketing holiday!)

Feb 15 – President’s Day

Feb 17 – Ash Wednesday

Feb 20 – Love Your Pet Day  (you know I love my doggie Pepperz:)

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If you have been following my blog or my list for a while now, you realize that I do not do a lot of “personal posting” on my site. In fact, I do very little of that because I don’t have much time for that nor do I think that’s what my community wants. We can chat it up on Twitter or Facebook if you want to ask me about my kids, my dog, my husband or my home office:)

No — I write a lot of information-based content, because I love to do it, the search engines love it, and most of all my community loves it. It’s important as you are growing your business, and building your community, that you keep providing members good content; but if you have been struggling with creating consistent content, let me show how you can add solid article marketing, information marketing, and social marketing information and tips to your site for free in less than 5 minutes! It’s called article syndication.

Do you have a Twitterfeed? If not, you should. This free tool will feed your blog’s RSS feed to your Twitter and/or Facebook accounts therefore notifying your followers every time you post something on your blog. We will use this same tool to feed my article marketing articles to your Twitter followers as well — giving them more valuable content while also increasing their exposure to you.

1. So open a free Twitterfeed account or Login to your existing account.

2. Add my RSS feed as well as your own to your account: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/LisaAngelettiesSmallBizBlog

3. Track your feeds and see real-time stats through your Twitterfeed account.

That’s it, your done! More content to your followers and fans – zero work on your part:)

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This is a great time to write all about LOVE, and I promise you that you can tie in love, relationships, marriage, dating, attraction, lust, sex, weddings, or something close to it to your niche. No matter what you sell.

Also, if you are an affiliate marketer then this is a great niche for you. You can easily monetize your content with a variety of  affiliate products. So take the time to get a nice traffic surge to your articles and site(s) this month and write a few valentine’s articles. Here are a few ideas to get your juices flowing:

1. Write an article on the history of marriage.

2. Write an article on what modern marriage looks like in different countries. *Oprah covered this topic recently.

3. Write a Valentine’s article on instant attraction. How to know when the other person feels the same.

4. Write an article about love and dating someone with pets (that you hate!)

5. Write an article about how career and love can be hard to mix OR how you can find true love at work

6. Write about all these hilarious love-themed reality shows like The Bachelor or For The Love Of Ray J

7. Write about the economics of Valentine’s Day. How much money is spent annually on this holiday?

8. Write about the origins of Valentine’s Day to support or challenge the theory that it is a “Hallmark Holiday”.

9. Write top ten lists articles such as the top 10 romantic getaways, top 10 romantic songs, top 10 romantic movies, etc.

10. Write an article on your favorite couple in history.

Monetize Your Valentine’s Day Articles
Also, if you are publishing these articles on your own blog, site, or in a directory that permits affiliate links, make sure you that you monetize your articles. Valentine’s Day is a great holiday for affiliates. Want to start with the easiest and highest-converting affiliate programs?

Check out Amazon. They recently sent out an email asking me to show my Kindle some love featuring red Kindle covers, lights, and other red (Valentine) themed accessories for my Kindle.

Check out Clickbank.com if you want to feature digital content in your articles such as Get Your Ex Back, The Women Men Adore And Never Want To Leave, or 500 Lovemaking Tips And Secrets.

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When I ask new clients why they haven’t written their first article yet, I often get a lot of shim-shammy answers! “Uh, I don’t have the time. Oh, I don’t know what to write about.” These are not valid reasons to not write. And using my psychotherapist background, I will tell you that it is rarely the truth.

The real reason why many people like yourself never write a thing — and that goes for articles, ebooks, print books, etc. is because you are embarrassed by your writing. You don’t like what you’ve written once you write it. You crumble up the paper and throw it in the trash can. You press delete on the last 3 sentences you wrote. You close the application and do not “save” the last document. Have you ever asked yourself why?

One of my clients explained, “Writing is so personal. I think people will make a judgment about me and what I do based on what I write.”

To some extent, she’s right. Your writing will be seen as a reflection of your business. Your articles have to give something of value to the reader. If they don’t, then a judgment may be made that you are not really an “expert” on your topic. Your writing needs to clearly position you in article after article as someone who knows what they are talking about. Not necessarily someone who writes eloquently.

The key to eliminating writing embarrassment is to:

1. Write Like You Talk
Do not try to sound like a college professor when your write your articles on homemade dog food! It’s just silly. My 5th grader should be able to read your articles and understand them. If not, then you could be writing way over the heads of your audience. People will connect with you, your message will resonate with them, if you speak to them directly and in your everyday voice. Imagine if you were talking about your topic with a friend in your kitchen. That’s how you should write about it as well.

2. Don’t Over Think It
I was paralyzed for literally years about doing teleseminars.  That is because I always over thought them. What was I going to talk about? Would I say the right things? That’s what many people do when it comes to writing articles. Did that sentence sound good? Is anyone going to read this? Just stop it. Really. It’s way more important for you to just get the article written and out there in the world. Perfection is not necessary nor the end goal of article marketing.

3. Get Support
Sometimes we all need a little pat on the back or just a little encouragement. Do you have those types of people in your life? Luckily for me, those people are often from my own list. If I write an article that truly resonates with people, I can always tell, because I will get a lot of retweets on Twitter or I will get a lovely personal email from someone. That feels great to me. Sometimes its all I need to motivate me to write a few more articles after dinner.

If you don’t have that list of people yet, send one of your articles to a friend, to a peer, to someone who “gets” what you do for a living and ask for feedback. Sometimes you will get a “great job” and other times you may get a really constructive critique such as “hey, I wish you would explain more about…”

This is what professional fiction authors do all the time. There are not many authors who when they were new to writing, didn’t join a writer’s group, looking for feedback on their writing. That’s one of the reasons I create the article marketing network, so that writers could submit their articles to others for critique or virtual “pats on the back”. It’s free to join and people are on their connecting and talking about their writing.

Finally, if you think that your embarrassment may be somewhat “deserved” because you just haven’t figured out the whole article marketing thing, you may want to work with me personally and get a one-on-one article marketing makeover. I love doing these because they really transform peoples’ blocks when it comes to writing as well as the quality of their content.

Whatever you do, I hope that you will use one of these tips or resources to get past the feelings of embarrassment and fear that’s stopping you from your writing potential. That’s the key, you’ve go to do something different to see a different outcome.

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