Does updating your blog more give you more visitors?
I always wondered about this. And as any of you would think, I went for the seemingly obvious answer. That was of course before I tried investigating it myself. So did I change my perception about the whole thing? Did I end up with the conclusion that I was wrong? Well., to sum up my stand on this I would put it up this way.
Posting more definitely gives you more visitors, but it’s up to you to find out whether it’s worth the effort.
Before justifying my stand on this, let me tell you why posting more gives you more visitors.,
By posting more you’re creating content and the more content you have, more search engine traffic you will get. But it’s always not the best way to get traffic. Simply because, without doing sufficient seo, you’re not going to get much out of it at all. And creating good, quality content takes time, which can probably hinder your potential.
What if you can simply cut down your posting frequency and try promoting your content more prominently?
Let me give you a real life example. I used to post six or more times per week sometime before. My goal was to create as much content as possible. As a result I was putting aside good number of hours for this blog alone. But with time, I changed this approach and concentrated on creating content whenever I felt like I had something important to share. And I put that leftover time and used it to do more seo and social media promotion.
As the result, I’ve steadily improved my traffic and I did it within a fraction of the time that I used to commit to this blog, earlier than this.
But ultimately it all comes down to you. Like I said you should decide for yourself just how much is too much. Think about it and you just might save some of your valuable time.
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I admit that I usually try to post once a day and because of that, I don’t do SEO and marketing as much. Should focus on this more often
I have seen an increase in my traffic though I don’t post as much as I used to in the beginning. The rest of my non-writing day is spent connecting with other bloggers via blog commenting and that’s been the biggest source of my traffic.
Still quality contents win the day anytime. It’s the question quality over quantity.
Yan
I have to agree that posting more does give you more visitors , and more content you have more search engine traffic you get. To be successful in blogging you need a combination of good content , good promotion , search engine optimization and a bit of luck
I agree with you. I have increased the number of posts per week compared to 2 or 3 months back. But, i don’t get enough time to get a post everyday.
It is also important that we also spend time on other blogs commenting and interacting with them…
I couldn’t agree with you more..I am not posting more than 3 posts per day but still managing a good traffic, and a traffic rank..Other than SEO, social networks are a great way to get traffic and you should be active in at least in 3 networks. For me I love su, reddit and digg.
Hi there, I ‘ve decided early on that I would post and let that post stay up for a good two days, I think it seems like it gives more people time to read that post. I’ve been to some blogs and they are putting up a new post everyday and by the time you get back to leave a comment that post is gone. I like to let my readers really have time to read then comment. But then I’ve never tried it by doing a post everyday, so I wouldn’t know how to gauge it. Thanks for the info.
I think if you post more often with quality content it sure will increase your traffic, I do agree with you that you need to set aside enough time to work the seo for your site.
excellent post and indeed visitors do come back to blogs only because of quality content and not of general posts
I think 1-2 articles a day is a good amount of articles..
i think the answer is yes. The more entry we update everyday at our blog, the more traffic we will get and visitor will come from search engine. Aim for long term. Not short term..
I would connect to this by stating that updating a blog more would give more visitors if the extra updates are up to par with the level of posting that was previously performed. However, if the extra post are noticeably of a lower quality than the standard posts, people will notice and see the writer’s limitations. That doesn’t tend to be beneficial.
Sure, the more you update, the more organic hits you will get. However, why not update less and work on gaining high page ranked backlinks for posts you’ve already completed? That’s what I have been doing as of late.
Remember, it’s not quantity, it’s quality. This goes for linkbuilding too.
Hmm, so if you are posting 3 times a day are you posting quality content or just spamming? Quality SHOULD win out over quantity. Go look at Organic Google Search Results or Google Adwords. In both, Google wants quality.
The other side of the coin is sphinn.com or StumbleUpon.com. Most of the stuff being sphunn or stumbled is crap. It’s bloggers who have agreed to ping each other so they rank higher on social networking without saying anything of value. This will eventually kill off social networking as marketing strategy.
Well I think, posting more often basically makes search engines think that this blog is being updated frequently.. so this blog must be of good quality. and thinking so they usually improve the search engine rankings for that blog and ultimately the visitors of that blog increases up.. so this is what I think!