Comments on: Ideal posting frequency to drive traffic to your blog

By: The Blonde Diaries

The Blonde Diaries — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:17:22 +0000

Thanks for the informative article. I am a new blogger and have been trying to determine what is better – more content or more promotion.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:19:14 +0000

Good article. I’ve been trying to find that “ideal” balance between quality posts that will drive traffic and more spontaneous posts. Thanks for sharing your take on the issue!

Do you have an opinion regarding small posts (asides), and whether they are detrimental? I’ve been trying to decide whether I should noindex asides so that I don’t clutter search results with brief posts.

By: techblissonline.com

techblissonline.com — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:28:29 +0000

You are very right Yan.You are quick to analyze

By: Yan Shall Blog

Yan Shall Blog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:43 +0000

I don’t write as much as I did when the blog was new. Then I was writing for better search engine indexation as we all know SE is a creature of habit and once it’s trained to crawl your site everyday, it will do it again even when there isn’t a new post. I could be wrong but looking at my stats, Google bot is visiting me everyday.

Yan

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Virtues of a sitemap for your blog/website | SEO — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:22:08 +0000

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By: techblissonline.com

techblissonline.com — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:19:48 +0000

@lucas,
The 20:80 ratio for content versus promotion depends upon the age of your blog.Though i have mentioned it as 50:50, it really is for blogs that are relatively younger like mine.

I am also of the opinion that these ratios are not universal and it really depends upon your niche and blog’s age.Every good blog (one that is unique and that does not vomit/copy others content) has an horoscope/fingerprint of its own, and one should try to understand it for optimizing it.So these ratios are mentioned only to emphasize the importance of those activities.

By: techblissonline.com

techblissonline.com — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:10:43 +0000

@pavan, updating daily is something that works for many and that is what even i try to do…but it is even better if we really do some analysis on the traffic metrics and fine tune our posting frequency.This is something that I am still working on, with good results

Your second point is very valid.Though you use the keywords as building blocks for your content, ensure that the content is informative and nicely presented to the searcher.The searchers should get the right answers for their queries, to the max. extent possible. This could be ensured by making several posts that are related and well interlinked.

So once you decide upon a few keywords as your building blocks, do some research on those keywords and make several related posts that are well interlinked.A searcher should find an answer in atleast one of those posts.

If it is such a huge topic, that you cannot write everything about it in your blog, make sure that you link to external pages with good content. The objective should be to make your visitor (searcher) happy.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:32:22 +0000

Interesting post. A lot of people say you should spend 20% of your time building content and 80% of it promoting what you created.

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:34:08 +0000

As per my experience, I can say tha…

1. Update daily to drive good traffic from google.
2. Don’t update if the content you are posting is a crap. It makes your subscribers to unsubscribe.