As a blogger, you are probably always thinking about how to increase blog traffic.
After all, greater blog traffic usually also means more money in your pocket!
You can grow your mailing list, increase advertisement revenues, earn more from product and affiliate sales as well!
Very often, holiday seasons will bring about an increase in online traffic.
Therefore, it is very important to plan your content calendar well in order to increase your blog traffic during the holidays and also earn more money!
A content calendar is basically planning your schedule for what blog posts to write and when to publish them.
Regrettably, I was late in publishing my Mother’s Day content. I did it only one week before Mother’s Day.
Even though I did manage to gain new subscribers from my Mother’s Day free printables, the results were lackluster.
Therefore, I wanted to make sure that I have sufficient runway to catch the next wave of seasonal traffic.
My experience has just re-emphasized the importance of planning your blog schedule well ahead of time!
Before I get to the juicy tips, here’s a free blog planner that you’d want to snag to help you manage your blogging schedule!
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2 Essential Tips On How To Increase Blog Traffic During The Holidays
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1. Find the right holiday season to work on
The truth is, not every holiday season or special occasion will bring the same kind of surge in traffic for every blog niche.
Therefore, it is important for you to find the season that is directly related to your blog niche.
Do you already have related blog posts that can be converted to seasonal content?
Do you have products or lead magnets related to specific seasons that can draw more sales and subscribers?
Taking into consideration the above two questions will help you find the right season to work on.
After all, when it comes to running an online business, we need to make sure we are investing our time and effort on things that can bring us the greatest returns.
Especially for busy mom bloggers, like myself, there’s simply no time to waste!
2. Give yourself sufficient runway
In general, people would be searching online for seasonal content about one month before the special occasion.
If the special occasion demands gifts, then searches might start even 6 to 8 weeks before the event.
For example, for occasions like Mother’s Day and Christmas, it is not uncommon for people to start searching for related content one to two months ahead of time because they want to plan for a budget or browse for gifts before finally deciding on their purchases.
With that in mind, you also want to think about how much time it takes for your new blog post or new pin to gain traction in terms of SEO on Google and on Pinterest.
Therefore, ideally, you should publish seasonal content 3 months ahead of time.
But I would admit that I’m not as diligent as that.
So working with a 2 month or, minimally, a one-month timeline would be great if you want to fully maximize the surge in seasonal traffic.
An example of how your holiday season content calendar should look like
2 months ahead of the holiday season:
– Create seasonal related product/lead magnet
– Set up sale pages and email sequences
– Publish seasonal related blog post
– Create several seasonal blog posts for a further boost in traffic. One quick way is to create round-up posts.
– Create new pins every week related to your seasonal content and actively add highly related third party pins to your specific seasonal Pinterest boards to build more quality content.
1 month ahead:
– Run paid campaigns for the entire month to maximize the amount of traffic you can capture on social media to promote your product
– Start emailing your subscribers about your seasonal content. Give a sneak preview to your paid product or offer early bird sales!
1 week after:
– Evaluate how your efforts have paid off! Take note of what you missed and how you can further improve for the next season.
By now, you should see the great importance of having a blog planner to schedule your content calendar.
The good news is, I have a FREE printable blog planner for you that is beautiful and practical to use!
If you struggle with creating digital products and lead magnets for seasonal content, this toolkit will be a lifesaver!
Here’s wishing you a productive and prosperous holiday season ahead!
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9 comments
These are really great tips! I will keep this in mind next time I make a holiday post. š
Thank you so much! You can start working towards 4th of July!
This is really helpful, I need to start planning a lot more!
I think we can all do better with more planning! I sure hope this blog planner will be helpful to you! Thank you so much for checking this out!
Thank you for the great tips! I can always use extra advice regarding blogging.
Thank you for the great tips! I can always use extra advice for my blog.
You’re most welcome! I sure hope you will find the free blog planner useful! Do check out other blogging tips in the blog and sign up for my newsletter where I share blogging tips every week!
Great tips here! I for sure try to plan out my content for max traffic during the holidays.
Thanks for checking out this post! I sure hope the free blog planner will help you with your blog planning as well! Time to start planning for 4th of July and beyond!