Good morning! This is the day zero of testing blogging consistency on this blog.
12 days has past since the last post. Ironically it was about how to let your blog die and this is happening with this blog right now. How to know?
By checking previous day stats:
- Visitors: 7
- Views: 14
- Searches: 1
Wow! We have a handful of visitors!
SEO stats are no better.
MOZ stats:
- DA (Domain Authority): 10
- PA (Page Authority): 15
- TB (Total Backlinks): 44
AHREFS:
- DR (Domain Rating): 8
- Backlinks: 100 (69% dofollow)
- linking websites: 28
Unfortunately, this is the bitter truth. A result of non consistent posting, not having a content plan, no schedule, no content strategy. Nothing at all. Nor even proper keyword research, no social media promotion, no paid ads, no marketing effort at all.
While SEO stats will not update on daily base, results can’t be measured accurately day by day but will show in a week or two. This means this consistency posting will last a while. We’ll post daily updates and show what was done the previous day.
So what can be done?
The plan is to post every day for a period of 15 days, targeting a same keyword – “testing blogging consistency”. Social media nor any kind of marketing free or paid will not be used for these 15 blog posts. Each post will be around 500-520 words. Few more other articles not related to this blog testing mini project will be published in range of 3-5 days each.
Will try to build backlinks consistently during this timeframe by utilizing ethic and free methods like commenting, forum posts, directory and article listings. No guest posting, SEO outreach or paid marketing of any kind.
All this means there will be 15 blog posts very similar to each other posted within 15 days timeframe.
What will be testing here
- Organic traffic, visitors and views. No social media posts boosting any blog articles. While using the built in WP stats it will be a bit rigid counting only Visitors and Views as well as search engine referrals only. But this will be enough to see improvements if any.
- Rankings for a main targeted keyword: “testing blogging consistency”, but also related keywords “testing blogging” and “blogging consistency”.
- MOZ and AHREFS SEO metrics, number of backlinks and referring domains.
- Content quality. Each post will have 1 cute unique featured image with appropriate alt tags and proper onsite SEO overall. All posts will have up to 3 links, at least one linking back to this post – Testing blogging consistency. All 15 posts will contain the targeted keywords. Length will range between 500 -520 words. If smaller then that a Lorem Ipsum like phrase will be added to fill the gap. Maybe with targeted keywords inside. This will create quite a lot duplicate content and will stuff keywords, but hey! we are testing our strategy!
That would be the plan.
Since hadn’t reach the planned post length, the rest of the posts will be a placeholder:
15 days of Testing blogging consistency! This is a day zero. Plan is made, next is to keep on and keep the hands on planned tasks and run for the next 15 days to see the results of this test of blogging consistency.