Scheduling Future Articles in WordPress

Posted on May 5th, 2008

Does your schedule vary so that some weeks you have extra time to write articles, while other weeks slip by? Are there other times when your article is due so it is on schedule, but you are out of ideas?

Unless you are on a strict schedule, there can be times when you just do not have the time or the ideas to write good articles. During the week I keep adding onto the list of ideas for articles.

Then I leave those ideas build until one of them just hits me with enough content to write that article. Once that is done, I will look at the list of ideas to see if any others can be written then.

Writing multiple articles in one day does not mean you have to publish them on your blog that same day. When entering them into your blog, there is an option in WordPress to set the publishing date and time.

The great thing about that is the article will not show up until that date and time arrives. I have tested this several times and found that it works so well, that when I saw a notice in email of an article had been posted, I had forgotten that I wrote it the previous week.

What a relief that was! Just when I was rushing to get the next article done, one showed up on time. So the next time you have the urge to write more than one article at a time, publish one and schedule the others for a future date.

Not only is that a time saver, but the search engines will only see the article on its scheduled date and will stay on its own schedule of indexing your blog.

Jim Hutchinson
Affiliate Referral Sources
A Division of Website Managers, LLC

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Getting Affiliate Sites Listed in Search Engines

Posted on February 5th, 2008

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This is probably one of the most important tips I can give you in regards to driving traffic to your websites.

You may have heard about replicated Affiliate websites not being allowed in the search engines. That is true with an exception: Only the most popular website, i.e. the one with the most incoming links, will be listed. You have the ability to get your Affiliate websites listed in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and others.

You can start by asking your Affiliate manager to allow creating a personalized introductory paragraph on your Affiliate website. That will make the first paragraph on each page unique. That is generally enough to get that page treated as being different from any other.

From there, you can go through the Free Website Traffic document that can be downloaded here and found on the newsletter subscription confirmation page. That document is just a start though. There are many other things you can do to get listed higher in the search engines and get more traffic, with or without the search engines.

The primary methods I use to get onto the first page of search engine results are:

Get my own domain name with the keywords in the name and build the site with unique content.
Advertise that domain name instead of my Affiliate websites. A blog is an asset to have on the site, which can be used for the site itself.
Participate in social networking (MySpace, FriendsWin), discussion forums and Yahoo! Answers.
Place classified ads on high traffic sites such as Craigslist, USfreeads, etc.
Publish articles outside the blog, such as in ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, MySpace, FriendsWin, etc.

All of that can be broken down into one word: Participate

When you actively participate in various venues, you not only get traffic from those venues, but the search engines pick up your on your activity, follow the links you provide in them and drive traffic to your site. It makes you visible to the world and that is what brings people to you.

Along with the Free Website Traffic page, which has a PDF file for you to download and print, visit www.affref.com for more marketing ideas. There is a newsletter subscription option there that will allow you to get weekly tips in email.

Thanks for being with us!

Jim Hutchinson
Affiliate Referral Sources
A Division of Website Managers, LLC
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