I have noticed many people writing very impressive and informative blogs but rarely is to be seen much public around their blogs who would like and appreciate their work. Most people around here must not be aware of the importance of timing your blog and publishing it at just the right moment in time… I mentioned quite a number of simple tips in How Take Out The Blogger From Yourself, but didn’t mention this very important way to enhance traffic on your site.
Why must you time your blog? One thing is for sure, and that is, it is high likely that once you publish a blog, most of your readers are at work or busy with something else or just plain sleeping. Your notifications of doing a new blog and any corresponding emails may go down lower in the inbox and chances are that once they actually sit and check out their mails, they may totally ignore it altogether! On the other hand, if you publish your blog at the right time, means when your target readers are most online and active, there are greater chances that they may view your bog instantly as you upload it, don’t you think so?
I don’t know about you all, but this remains true with me. I usually never scroll down till the end of the screen, unless if it is very important. In that case, all the new notifications on top are well received by myself and I at once visit and like and read them. What to do in that case?
- Evaluate your target audience and determine what time they are most available at.
- Check out your previous popular blogs that you have done and see what time they were published at. Then follow the trait 😉
For instance, if most of your readers are mothers and homemakers who are usually busy over the week days but when weekend comes, they are there, active on most social networking sites, so that is the time best for you to publish something new. Let me know what you think about this and does this timing thing also matters to you?
Dear sister , does the timing works with international audiences / readers? I published my journal at Malaysian time. Of course Indian and Pakistan readers could access my blog while I’m asleep….
exactly! I think it totally depends upon your target audience. Try to upload your links on different social networking sites on different times!
Wow that’s one step forward!
A great tip. I hadn’t thought about timing too much but I do tend to get more comments and likes when I publish just before I go to bed as I think a lot of my readers are just starting their day.
That’s good… for everyone its different based on their target readers I think!
Thanks very much for coming here 🙂
Good tips. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Its my pleasure to share these tips with everyone!
Thanks to you too for taking out time to visit my page:)
I so agree with you. Saturday has always been a spoiler for me
Thanks for dropping by and taking out time for reading this:)
I am glad I did
Thank you for this post. I have noticed in my stats that timing is very important, and now wait until the most opportunist time before I click “publish”
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
~Carl~
You are most welcome!
Yes, timing is indeed very important and before publishing, we must check out if its the appropriate time to do so!
Jazaakilahu kheyran sister inshaaAllah will try to keep your tips in mind next time!
Thanks for the visit.. Yes, do try to follow this rule, it really is very useful 🙂
Haha.. I have just started using this platform three months before.. I am myself learning the tricks of the trade 🙂
3 months? Awesome, Sister! you get good stats for your blog! Mine is almost 1 year this April (12th), insha’Allah. It’s like a baby! LOL , learning how to walk! 😀
I started in end of november.. so that makes it four months now !!
MashaAllah! Thank you for sharing these tips. I wasn’t aware of these ideas until now that you’ve shared them in your blog 🙂
Sister in Islam, where do you currently live? And how old are you if you don’t mind me asking? Also, at around what time are you usually online? 🙂 Wasalaam from the Philippines.
JustSharingIslam.blogspot.com
(Wisdom Islamic School http://www.wisdom.edu.ph)
Thanks for the visit! and JazakAllah for the appreciation 🙂
I am a mother of two, a homemaker currently and taking freelance writing jobs from home. I am usually online in the mornings when my kid is off to school or at night when he’s in bed :):)
I do agree with you that timing is an important factor. A lot of the times though, I actually purposely ignore the whole timing thing (like today), I posted when I’m sure a lot of people are asleep. But i do agree with you 🙂
Yes, even I do that.. I can understand.. with so much to do I totally ignore this timing thing myself many a times 🙁