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Abusing Google Trends – Unethical blogging
I stumbled upon the website BlogFlux today and found myself reading a blog titled Jehzlau Concepts. I found one of the articles very interesting about how to increase rank on your blog even if you don’t post often. You should check out the article.
The article says that a great way to get traffic is by riding many small, short waves of web popularity by using the cool tool, Google Trends, that shows you what people are searching for NOW. Not 10 minutes ago, but what is hot right now. For instance, today Google Trends shows that J-Lo had twins, a teacher sent illicit pics to students, the Philadelphia airport has delays, and there’s a Star Trek collection tour.
10 Things a Day: My New Schedule
My wife and I had coffee last Thursday to discuss our new plans: we are going to have a daily schedule that we follow that will help us avoid distractions and keep us focused. Here’s my daily schedule that we pieced together:
- Make list of daily tasks and define the Main Project for the day
- Check and respond to emails & voice messages
- Tidy up my desk and do administrative tasks (invoicing, late payment notifications)
- Write a post to my blog
- Take a break for 30 minutes, including checking Google Reader, MacNN, and other favorite sites like Woot.com
Posting consistently
Set up a blogging schedule that aligns to your slacking habits
If you find yourself not posting to your blog and letting your website stagnate, set up a schedule that fits your cycle of procrastination. We all know how hard it can be to do anything consistently, but we manage when the results are immediate.
- Take out the garbage
- Shaving/showering/washing dishes
- Cleaning
- Waking up!
Blogging is not as immediate. Posts don’t always get comments, and there’s often no immediate gratification to blogging. So how does one motivate themselves? I recommend this: in order to avoid “blog rot,” set a time aside on your calendar or during your day.
When are you least productive?
In order to find your blogging sweet spot, a great way is to do a little investigating. One way to tell when you are least productive is by answering this question: what time during the day do you read the most blogs? If you use Google for any services (Gmail, iGoogle, Finance, etc.) you have a Google Account. With that account, you can enable a service called Google Reader. Google Reader lets you compile all of your favorite websites’ articles into one easy to use format.
Least productive Fridays
By looking at my Web History chart, it’s easy to see that:
- I waste the most time from 10-11am, and 2pm.
- I waste the most time on Tuesdays (by far!)
So, based on these statistics, I know that I should schedule a time for me to post on Tuesday around 11am each week. Also, I should pencil in a daily posting time at 2pm to remind myself to post. Note: I started writing this post at 2:30 pm.
What about you?
How do you allocate time in your day to blog, and how effective is it?
So I've finally given in…
The cobbler’s son has no shoes
One aspect of being a web designer is that when you create websites all day for other people–and get paid to do so–making your own website seems to fall by the wayside.
I have so many great things to share with people, lots of really helpful web design resources, and plenty of opinions!
Eventually, I’ll move everything over to my real website (www.katzwebdesign.net), but for now, this will do!
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