Managing a website can take up a lot of time and it is quite a hard work to begin with. This is especially true for those who are trying to rank high in the search engines or trying to sell ads space on your website because you will undoubtedly need to update your sites regularly.
Constantly adding good quality and relevant content to your website is hard work but is does bring quite a lot of benefits to your business and website. For a Search Engine Optimizer also known as SEO practitioner, continually adding and updating fresh content can help improve your website’s search engine ranking which will then bring you more traffic and thus gets you fresh customer leads as well.
Outsource.
However, due to the amount of work involved, most small-business owners and website owners will find it rather challenging to have the time to frequently update their website and market it at the same time. How SEO work is that if you have more keyword relevant and useful content on your website the more likely you can get a higher ranking for the particular search phrase.
One trick that helps you keep your content fresh and maximize your time is to not be overwhelmed by having to keep the contents fresh. You need to realize that your content needs to be relevant so only post contents that are relevant.
Outsource some of the ‘work’ and hire qualified professionals to complete all the work and content creation. You can easily find good work from sites like freelance.com or fiverr.com at an affordable price. By outsourcing your work to professionals, you can save a lot of time and at the same time get more time for other important stuff such as marketing your business or even spend some free time with your families. The fact of the matter is this, you need contents constantly and it takes a lot of time to create contents that are of quality.
You can also hire experts to optimize your website so that your header and titles is easy to seen by the search engines spiders.
Focus.
Another great way to save time is to seek out or brainstorm multiple ideas that you will use as contents at one time. Set a time where you just sit down and list out all the ideas. This can actually save a lot of time because your mind is focused on one thing. This can save you a lot of time thinking of new ideas each time you want to write or post something new.
When you have multiple ideas, you can try to create as much content as possible from the brainstormed ideas and then schedule them to be posted automatically. Thanks to modern world technology a lot of these posting can be automated, which thus saves you even more time.
Use photo or videos instead.
Sometime it is better to post videos or pictures instead of a long article. This saves a lot of time because you do not need to spend the time to write a lengthy article. All you have to do is post a nice and relevant picture and record a video which can usually be done within minutes.
The good thing is that search engines these days seems to like video post as well as long as your description and tags are properly done. Writing takes up a lot more time than creating a video. Although it does take some time to upload the video, you do not need to actually be working on it during the upload and this free up a lot of time.
A picture can paint a story much easier than just using words. Using a well-taken picture can actually help attract more attention than any text you can write. So not only does it take less time to post a picture, it gets the attention of your site visitors just the way you want it.
Besides that you can constantly update your video and picture posts using short description and this is rather convenient and consumes a lot less time. This is even better if you could focus on just looking for appropriate photos or create a few videos in one session and then schedule it to be posted in later days of the week.
This tip could potentially save a lot of days in every week while still being able to please the search engines and the human eyes. Of course try to mix some post that has good written content as well to make it look natural.
How to write faster.
One of the best ways to speed up your writing is to break larger ideas into smaller pieces. Use each piece as a sub topic so that you have a foundation of ideas to write on. Unless you are super talented in writing, then you will find it hard for your writing to flow continuously without the help of sub topics.
Another great way to write out your content is to use a voice to text recognition software where you can just speak out your mind and the software will write it down for you automatically. Of course, the software and your speech may not be written in perfect grammar and some proofreading and editing is required but you will find that as you get more experienced and used to the software, you will generally have fewer mistakes and thus save you on the proofreading and editing time. An example of such software is Dragon naturally speaking.
Last but not least, practice your writing. The more you write the easier it gets and just try to let go of your mind so that the words and ideas can come flowing out smoothly. Write fast and write with passion. Try to minimize being unsatisfied where you keep deleting what you wrote. Write a draft and edit it later and you will see that you can cut down a lot of your writing time.