The Best Time to Publish Your Fitness Blog Posts

Did you know that there are optimal times and days to publishing your fitness blog posts?  It’s true.  Think about your typical reader, probably works in a corporate job with a schedule of 8-5.  Is it wise to publish your posts at 5:30pm?

Not really since alot of people will go home and not really want to sit and read stuff on the internet.  They are probably going to be watching their favorite TV shows and then hit the bed.  A typical employee might get to work at 8am, and by 9am they are looking for something else to do.

The day of the week is also important as well.  Monday is usually the first day back into the office, and probably the busiest.  Friday people are more concerned with getting the weekend started and some places close early as well.

So when should you publish your posts?

You can obviously schedule your posts and emails for around 8:30am so that way people are in their inboxes and come across your email update.  But there is another option as well, something I try to do.

Most people who get up for an 8am job might be up at 6-6:30am to start getting ready.  Many will check their email at this time, because people can’t pull away from their gmail accounts.  So what if the first new email they seen in their box was yours, before all the Skecher Shape Up junk mail starts coming in…

Try a few different times, but always in the morning.  Try sending some early and some later, and since Aweber can track open rates you can do some testing.

So we talked about days of the week and which days are optimal.  Weekends are usually not a good time at all to post, since people are off work and out of the house.

Mondays are a busy day for most employees and Fridays as we said may not be optimal.

So that leaves us with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  Personally on Easy Fitness Websites I like to post every Tuesday and Thursday and that works well for me.  If you blog everyday, then you can continue, but if you blog only once or twice a week, then consider the days you’ve been posting and what kind of traffic you’ve seen.

Remember you can schedule your Wordpress blog posts and Aweber broadcast emails for future dates, so if you write on the weekends, you can have them post on your optimal day.

Not to mention many bloggers kill their blogs because they feel they have to post all the time and get burnt out, or they write and post on the weekends and are disappointed why they don’t have much traffic.  Optimize your fitness blog and increase your business.

After you get your blog posts scheduled and posted, don’t forget to Social Bookmark them and there is a best time for that too.