One area where consistency will start to pay off quickly is when it comes to your website or blog. Putting out fresh content regularly is great for both your readers and search engines. Both will reward you for your hard work in their own ways. Let’s look.
Let’s start with the golden grail of web development. Free search engine traffic. We all want Google to send us as many new potential customers as possible, right? They in turn want to send the freshest and most up-to-date information to their customers. Who are their customers? People who search something via their search engine, of course. And it’s the search engine company’s job to ensure they deliver the best possible result.
What does that have to do with you and consistency?
Great question!
When you update your site regularly, you’re showing the search engines that you are up-to-date and relevant. This isn’t an article or blog post on a site that’s been sitting there for ten years and could be outdated. This is something you’re actively working on, and the search engines will reward you by giving you higher priority over dormant sites. Of course, there are many other factors that go into ranking, but the easiest thing you can do to improve your SEO is to create content consistently.
Just as important is nourishing the relationship you have with these readers. Think back to the last time you’ve landed on a new blog or website through a Google search. Assuming the content was up to snuff, you appreciated the information, but you were probably a long way off from considering buying from this site, or even giving them your email address. But if you were curious enough to browse around, you may have become interested enough to bookmark the site, or at the very least have it on your radar when you come across it again later.
By the way, making sure that happens is becoming easier with targeted advertising like FB ads for example. But that’s outside the scope of this post.
When you update your site regularly, you’re training your website visitors to come back for more. They’ll get in the habit of visiting and reading often. Of course, that’s not going to happen with every single person who comes across your site, and that’s okay.
You want your ideal target audience, the people who are really interested in what you must share. You’ll get their attention by publishing regularly and as they read and engage with you on your blog, they’ll move closer to becoming a subscriber and then a customer.
Of course, as a bonus all this content you’re adding regularly is out there attracting new people through search engines, social media, and other people sharing links to your valuable content. That’s why you want to publish consistently to continue to grow.
