Is There Such A Thing As To Many Blog Post?
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Until about 11 months ago I thought you needed to write about 3 to 4 blog post a week and each blog post should be between 250-600 words. Sound logic if you do some research on Google right? Then I started experimenting with this blog and my empower network blog. What I noticed was that it’s kind of a duel edge sword.
By writing 2 to 3 short blog post almost daily on my empower network blog I noticed my traffic continually increased. With that logic I started writing more on this blog to see what would happen and my traffic started to increase here also.
…However I had mixed feelings about it.
Does Your Blog Loose It’s effective when you write more blog post?
On the plus side of things my traffic and opt in’s increased, but I noticed a lot less people commenting on my blog. I tend to think having comments on your blog is a good sign that people enjoy reading what you are writing. It’s also a way for you to find out what you should be writing about.
I did debunk some myths doing this experiment though:
I was under the impression that doing more than 1 blog post a day would be a bad thing and considered spam. I quickly realized that Facebook and Twitter both are constantly being updated by the second. Twitter only allows you 140 characters and face book you can say 1 word and post it. Both of those sites rank well in google. So it’s not the frequency or how long your blog post is that matters so much.
What matters is when you do your blog post that you provide value to the reader.
Blog Post Frequency Wrap Up!
There are times when I do more than 1 blog post a day on this blog and there are times when I do 1 blog post a week. Either way it doesn’t matter in the eyes of google. In fact the more you write the more traffic you will get that is certain.
Stay away from duplicate content. Still unique content rules the day. If you are going to do more than 1 blog post a day I recommend writing between 150 and 300 words, this is so that you can get some seo love.
If your only going to write 1 to 3 blog post a week then you should make each post 500 – 1000 words. Google likes frequent post and Google likes long post. So either way you can’t loose. But if you write frequently it will send the search engines to your site more often, thereby getting you indexed faster and ranked for more long tail keywords.
I can clearly see my traffic spike when I write more often. This is a good thing. But as I said earlier the trade off is you won’t get as many comments as if you let your post sit on the first page longer.
Just some thoughts I wanted to share with you about doing blog post….
That’s interesting, but it’s still confusing with the very different advises all the “guru’s” give. Some suggest that a blog post, for SEO reasons, should be at least 750 words. But i agree with you that frequency and originality is important. Seems like a lot of work to write 2-3 posts every day – even if they’re short:-)
Hi Rick,
I have about 10 blogs I try stuff out on, some are autoblogs.. A good example of some guru’s talking smack and not backing it up..
I have 2 autoblogs that I never touch that get a few hundred visitors a month. They are indeed still indexed and not thrown into the google sandbox.
…In the case of my autoblogs, they serve a specific purpose and service.. So Even those blogs are providing value to it’s community..
With that said,
Anyone can go to godaddy or something of that nature buy a domain that is over 5 years old and almost instantly start getting the web crawlers visiting you.
The process of getting a new domain indexed, is submitting your site to search directories and getting backlinks from established sites..
While google doesn’t hold backlinks as important as it use to, they still are important.
The biggest factor in my opinion is the niche you are blogging in. Clearly the home business niche is saturated and very hard for a newbie to get started with a fresh new blog in this niche..
—> That’s another reason why I am a big fan of Empower Network,
Why go against the current?
Anywho…
Thanks for dropping in and commenting..
Hey Larry,
Thanks for the sharing this. I push about 3 blogs a week now and have seen some tremendous results as far as alexa rating and traffic. I thought about publishing everyday as well so now I know what I have to do!
Sherman
Hey Sherman!
It’s good to hear from you.. Good luck brotherman!
Hey,
I like your contradiction. Its sure to say you have posted with a lot of experience and every coin has two sides. One or the other keeps flipping and shows its effects. But its good to know the results of the study you have made.:)
It was a short and sweet post, showing both the sides of the coin.:)
Thanks for the share.:)
Hey Sanjib,
I aim to please 🙂
Thanks for commenting…
I think in the starting it seems quite interesting to publish everyday but if you provide content too frequently, visitors will loose the interest in your posts. Providing 3 posts per week that really can catch your reader’s attention and compel them to comment is great success for a blog. Thanks for these tips. Good write up 🙂
Hi Alison, this is true in one sense.
…Although I don’t think you can take that approach when your blog is say only 6 months old.
I believe you need to post as often as you can so you can start gaining traction in the serps..
After you establish yourself a bit then you can throttle back and write more for your readers..
..Again I think it all depends on the niche you are writing in.
Thanks for commenting
P.S A good thing about blog comments is they are sorta like tweets or fb post.. You can write a few words and that’s enough to drag back the search crawlers..
I think as a blogger one should not worry about publishing something everyday. You rather focus on providing valuable information and maintain quality so that you can build long lasting relationship with your readers.
Hi Aasma,
Like all things in life the more you do something the better you become at it. I know lots of folks who when they first started blogging it was a painstaking process.
..It took me awhile to get my groove and figure out how to blog.
I think once you have been blogging for awhile, you become a better writer and it becomes easier to get the thoughts out of your head and onto a blog post.
People who like to talk would do extremely well blogging 🙂
I’ve also once read you have to make posts daily, but I don’t fully agree with it, because I saw a number of successful bloggers, who have really many many readers and post only once or twice a week but are still extremely popular. that’s why I think “authority” is even more important than frequency, and only when you just starting you need so many posts
Hi Victoria thanks for commenting.
Let’s look at a few things:
1. Authority will never happen for a new blogger unless.
a. They corner a market
b. They are an expert, and I do mean expert like a doctor expert
Depending on your writing style and depending on the niche that will also help dictate how many post a person needs.
I also take into consideration this one glaring fact…
If your broke and your trying to make money online and you are using blogging as a means to increase your income, you better be blogging twice a day… Dare I say 3 times a day..
If you are comfortable reaping what you sow, then by all means 1 post a month is fine…
So my view is , it’s not okay to do just 1 or 2 post a week if you don’t yet have authority, pr, readers etc……
You’ve shared an entirely new way of looking at blog management and I like it. I’m surely going to try your tips. Great share.
Writing a blog can sometimes get tedious. So, you it is very important to always read and observe things around you so that you can come up with great ideas to write that your readers really want to read about.
The title of the post is quite engaging. I certainly ask this question to myself, as to what is the ideal amount of blogging per day for a blogger. This is a great post, it cleared many of my doubts. Thanks for sharing this valuable post.
This is a very interesting experiment! I didn’t know the frequency was so vital to traffic
Thanks for your great post. I write 7 posts per week. Is it good?