I was reading my various RSS subscriptions today when I ran across Three Ways to Keep Your Articles Fresh by Sara Christensen over on Blogging Tips.  What hit me close to home was her debate about writing a holiday themed post because everyone else was.  I thought it was funny, because I had already posted a funny video on Masked Dispatcher about the holidays, but it was an April Fool’s Day video.

Getting Ahead of the Game with Holiday Articles

Around the holidays, people do holiday related searches.  It’s a good idea to attempt to cash in on that traffic, but what if you’re behind the wave?  If you don’t post your article in-time, you may have already missed alot of potential traffic.

Notice that at Wal-Mart always has their Christmas products up around Halloween, and every year it seems that they put it up even earlier.  Alot of people want to get their shopping done early, so why not capitalize on that?

Timestamp Your Holiday Articles if You Must

This is a great opportunity to use your Wordpress feature, the TimeStamp.  If you don’t want to confuse your readers at Christmas with a Valentines Day related article, just change the date to an earlier date and publish.  Why earlier?  Get that article out there an indexed by the search engines!  If your site can pull off season or holiday related articles, get them out ASAP.  Google doesn’t care when you posted your article, just that you have it and that it’s keyword sensitive.  Holiday articles, if done correctly, can be timeless.

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