Comments on: Do you believe that posting too much will lose you readers?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:34:07 +0000

it just depends on the type of blog you have steve. if i concentrated on writing guides on coding wordpress here im sure id be the same as people tend to look for a problem through search engines and then forget about it because they dont need to use the site (well thats one example i can think of)

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:24:32 +0000

I get far more traffic from search engines than I get from returning readers. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

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By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:45:58 +0000

Interesting theory and one I had been wondering about. I am trying to make one post every day or two to my blog but always wonder if by doing this people may not read the previous days post. It is so easy to click on an interesting link in a post and then not return to that blog for a few days that I wonder if some posts get buried without hardly being read

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:59:04 +0000

i should have expanded that on my post:)

When i spoke about getting more visitors by posting more i am talking medium to long term.

In the short term posting a little less or posting a little more isnt gonna have any real impact on your blogs success. Over a longer period of time i believe you would see increased traffic by posting more. If you post twice a day and increased it to 3 times then in 3-4 months time your blog would have over 100 more posts on your blog. Thats a lot of content for search engines to crawl.

Also, i didnt mean to imply that people should blog more to get more money (although you probably would). I believe posting more will bring you more traffic.

I've perhaps been a bit stubborn on my view on this as i didnt realise until i read your post that so many people are put off by too many posts.

By: Chris Stark

Chris Stark — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:44:54 +0000

Great post Kevin. It's nice to see good arguments from both sides of the debate.

In your scenario of 500 subscribers / 2000 uniques and 400 subscribers / 3500 uniques, it is tough to really look at without knowing where and why the extra 1500 uniques are visiting.

If the extra 1500 are all new readers visiting on a daily basis, then I 100% agree with you. Obviously you are doing something right if you are improving your consistent readership.

If those 1500 a day are coming in just because one of your articles ranked really well in Google for certain keywords and they are reading the one article and leaving, then I think a lot of people would rather have the extra 100 subscribers. Especially if they aren't attempting to earn a living from their Blog.

It all comes down to what you want from your blog. If you want to earn revenue and hit big on long tail keywords, then posting many articles a day can never hurt you, even if they are not all of equal quality.

If you want to establish a loyal readership and community that actively participates in your posts, you might want to consider the frequency of your posts and find the right amount that keeps your readers coming back for more.