One of the best ways to optimise your website(s) for organic search engine traffic is to work on a specific SEO schedule regularly.
Rankings have the ability to change on an almost constant basis depending on how competitive your niche is so the more you work at it, the more likely that you’ll be someone who benefits from your efforts.
SEO is not a “set it and forget it” thing. A great way to keep your site rankings moving onward and upward is to create a routine for yourself so that you’re reminded to “keep at it.”
Baby steps can prove very advantageous over time and once you hit your traffic goal, you have to keep at it in order to continue to see that traffic (otherwise someone else could take your spot!).
There are a lot of different things you can do on a regular basis to improve the organic traffic your website gets:
• Article marketing
• Blogging
• Blog commenting
• Social bookmarking
• Microblogging
• Directory submission
• Web 2.0 page creation
Feel like you don’t have time for regular SEO efforts? When something is added to your regular schedule, it becomes a habit. So it stands to reason that an SEO schedule could help, and why not make it a daily schedule?
If you set up a regular schedule that includes many of these activities, it won’t feel like an overwhelming task because you’ll be spending a mere few minutes a day working at your SEO and that will make it second nature.
Here’s an example of a schedule for a week. You can create a revolving schedule for you based on busy weeks and light weeks where you have more time to dedicate to search engine optimisation and other traffic building tactics or you can simply set a schedule for the coming week on a Sunday night when you’re planning out your week.
Example SEO Schedule
Monday:
write 1 article and submit it to an article directory.
Tuesday:
Read all blogs in your RSS reader and make sure to submit comments to as many as possible (if you have a lot of blogs in your Google Reader, you might want to break this task up a bit!).
Wednesday:
Spend 30 minutes on Twitter or another favourite social media site.
Thursday:
Make a HubPage or Squidoo Lens and social bookmark it to five online locations.
Friday:
Write 5 blog posts and postdate them for next week.
It doesn’t have to look like the schedule above but if you take the time to plan your SEO schedule so that you take care of the many different aspects of your online business, it’ll be better run and much more profitable!
Don’t forget to regularly check your traffic statistics so that you can see which of your efforts are paying off!
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Thanks for idea of a routine Sean. I tend to be rather “set it and forget it” and find it hard to keep going at the maintenance
Alex
Hi Sean,
I just wanted to say that this is an outstanding article! The one thing that people absolutely need to understand above all else is that there is no such thing as “set it and forget it”. You can have the best website in the world but that will not guarantee you one drop of natural traffic if you do not build linkage and promote it regularly.
In the Kevin Costner movie “Field of Dreams” the phrase was “Build it and they will come.” Well as you have pointed out here, merely building is not enough. One of the surest and most necessary routes to success is SEO that includes regularly scheduled promotional efforts to build inbound links and natural traffic.
Thanks for a great article.
Smiles and Good Fortune,
Teresa
Hey Sean! Excellent article! I will be planning out my own daily seo schedule strategy. Either by a stroke of luck (or genius) whichever I’ve been able to get most of my websites placed on the first page with my chosen keywords. I do have a fairly narrow niche to compete with, I am a book artist and create leather journals and like products. But I do see that daily fluctuation in rank and think a plan like this would be easy to implement and work well for me. And hopefully keep me Numero Uno and the orders will keep coming in! Thanks again, I’ll be reading your other posts here soon.
Thanks Sean! First time reader. Searched google for daily seo schedule and this popped right. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for to help me out. Nice tips, SEO is definitely a continuous process that never ends! Pretty much a full time job in itself.
Looking forward to reading more articles. Thanks!
Ryan
If you searched for “daily seo schedule” and this article popped up then Sean has got his SEO right on the money. Not I am surprised as he knows his stuff .
Hi Sean,
Thanks for outlining a schedule. I will add it to my current routine and I’m sure it will bring some great results.
Hi SEan
I really love the SEO weekly schedule. You have taken all of the hard work out for me. ( I wonder if anyone else will complain about that lol)
I have printed this article out and put it on my whiteboard, Thank you,
Hi Elly,
I love that Sean gives us so much great stuff to help us on our way. The only hard part is applying all of it. The best thing about the daily SEO schedule is that it breaks a daunting proposition down into easily manageable daily tasks.
If we stick to the schedule, we’ll be on our way to a wonderful increase in our organic traffic.
Getting motivated is hardest part of doing anything…but as self employed internet marketers we need to give ourselves a good kick in the freckle to keep on top of things….great idea with the itinery…the mind knows whats coming up so it can plan m/
Hi Jody
If you do all the preparation first and plan a schedule for anything (like the one here)
it takes the hard work out of trying to get things done every week.
I have a schedule on a spread sheet now and I just look at each hour and know what I need to do in that hour. I basically go from hour to hour and at the end of the day I know exactly which part of my business I have worked on and I don’t have to think about what I need to do tomorrow. It is so wonderfully easy.
Hi Sean,
This article has helped a lot by giving me ideas on putting together an SEO daily schedule and having a weekly routine.
I’m learning that it’s all about having a routine and building an Internet Marketing program. I’ll be so much better off when I have it all in place and I can just follow the steps each day.