Using Advance Posting to Your Advantage
When you are starting out your blog, it is critical that you consistently post. What do you do when you are not around though? A lot of the large blogs have guest bloggers to cover for them. It is worth their time and money, because they are generating the kind of revenue.
What about you? If you are like me where a couple dollars a day is good day right now, you can't justify having a guest blogger at this point. Advance posting is the best technique you can do.
What is Advance Posting
This is publishing content with a future timestamp on it. I wrote my own blog software from scratch. It is pretty basic, but one of the basic things it does, it only show blog postings that have happened in the past. This allows me to put a date on a post that is a few hours or even days ahead.
When that time comes, the next person who refreshes the page will then see the new posting. I have a trigger to create the updated RSS feed and all is fine. You have a newly updated blog that you haven't touched that day.
When To Use
Whenever it is convenient. If you are taking holidays, you are working another job, you want the posting to go out at a specific time and don't want to forget, and etc.
Word of Warning
Don't be writing time sensitive postings that will be out of date when they get posted. Also, readers like fresh content, so don't do it too much. Spontaneous blog posts in the middle of the day have a certain feel to them that readers appreciate.
I personally try to write one each week day and have my advance postings fill in some time gaps here and there. When I am on holidays this summer, I will have quite a few advance postings.
Here is another article I found on advance posting at technosailor.com.
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