How Often Should I Post
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How often should I post? Some say everyday while others say you need to let your post sit a few days to attract readers. Is there a rule of thumb? What do you think?
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There is no rule of thumb but there aren’t many bloggers who will faithfully follow blogs wherein publishing multple pposts daily is the pattern. My answer to your question is publish only as often as you have something meaningful to share. Don’t publish “fillers” simply because you feel pressured to publish something – blog without obligation.
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You’re welcome. What I have found early one was blogging every day was not the way for me to go. My readers will continue to follow and comment if I post once or twice weekly in each blog and I will attract new readers too. If I cannot manage to post twice weekly I don’t fret over it. If I have extra time I devote it to commenting on blogs with similar content because it draws traffic, especially at this time of the year. I just blogged this yesterday http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/02/blogs-are-about-comments-and-commenting/
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P.S. You will see lots of post daily advice online but check out the blogs purporting that’s the way to go. They are primarily monetized blogs and some have several authors. They have to in order to prevent both blogger burnout and reader burnout and to rack up advertising click throughs that convert into sales and provide them an income.
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timethief, I notice that I follow blogs but that doesn’t necessarily mean they will follow me. When I choose to follow a blog, should I ask that blog to follow me, too?
When I post I’m getting about 10 visits over a week. My guess is they are the blog owners who are following me and get my post.
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I would never do that. I do not follow every blog of every blogger who follows me. I follow blogs based on their content. If the content does not interest me I don’t follow the blog.
When we first begin a blog or when we want to revive a dying blog or kick start one that seems not to be doing well frequent posting does generate traffic. Why don’t you join the Zero to Hero Challenge?
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/zero-to-hero/
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/zero-to-hero-day-one?replies=202#post-1579867 -
Also how often do you comment on related blogs? It’s commenting on related blogs with similar content that creates a traffic buzz.
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I don’t want to be a bother but would you mind if I asked you questions from time to time? Your answers are very helpful.
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Hi there,
I am technical writer and I also work in my hubbys business as we are partners. I am over stretched right now and not accepting clients. That being said, I do spend hours almost every day answering support forum questions here. I dont like to answer any on my blogging tips blog, unless they are questions that specifically relate to the content in my posts, and I will not answer any support questions emailed to me. Right now I`m very sick with a head cold and not answering as many support forum questions as I usually do. Please feel free to post your support questions into threads on these forums where Volunteers and Staff work cooperatively together to provide support. -
Okay, I understand. Please get well. To shorten colds I take zinc and vit C. (3 times a day) Oregano capsules open the sinus cavities. Echinacea combined with oregano is terrific for shorting the length of a cold. You can get this stuff at any CVS. Oregano you might have to go to a health food or vitamin store.
Thank you again and happy new year to you. Oh, and for cold prevention, eat lots of oranges…
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The idea that you need to let your post “sit a few days” to attract readers is one of the more ridiculous things I’ve heard. It’s not as if you’re deleting your old posts when you make a new one.
People and search engines enjoy fresh content. The more, and the fresher, the better.
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Okay, thank you. When I post, I have an option of tagging about three words I’m offered. How can I tag more and will that help my changes to get picked up by search engines?
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You just manually add tags and categories. Whichever ones you want. Simply add them in to the appropriate Tag or Category box. Don’t overuse them, though; more than about a dozen make you look like a spammer, and you’ll get downranked in search engines.
Retroactively tagging pre-existing posts has virtually no effect, but properly tagging from the start does help a great deal.
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Retroactively tagging pre-existing posts has virtually no effect,
Since search engines check older posts, I would think that fixing tags on older Posts would have a small amount of effect to clean up a site to get better indexing, however search engines look at what is written, so I would not think that an older post would suddenly jump to the top of a search page
On my boating safety site, I will from time to time pace a post. My reasoning is that one site will feature my articles on their front page, and I have noticed that if I do two Posts close together they will sometimes hold the second article for a day or three so they can have new stuff on their front page. Also several sites now take a headline feed of my current Post so I will let their traffic from a day or three look at the same headline, since they seem to not have all their visitors show up every day.
For my personal site, I just let things go, no more than one a day just to cut down on inbox stuff. But that site is not picked up by feeds and only has a token number of followers.
Neither site is “time sensitive” in that I deal with today’s news like @raincoasters work is.
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