The Relationship Between Traffic and Posting Frequency
Now that I'm getting more traffic, and more regularly, I can see a correlation that I suspected existed. That is, there appears to be a relationship, but I haven't proven it yet.
What my web metrics for my blogs and websites are showing is that on the days that I post less entries, my traffic is lower. So is the traffic for the next day, which sometimes sets off a chain reaction: disappointed in my traffic, I blog less, finding some excuse to distract me. Until I can get on the ball again and start posting.
I've also found that, for the time zone I live in, if I post between 11:00 pm and 1:00 am, I manage to get my blog posts indexed early enough that I get some morning traffic, as well as evening traffic, the next day. If instead I wait until the next morning, I seem to lose out. But I do start capturing traffic again later in the evening, next day.
Still, in the long run, this may not matter. If you are targeting search engine-referred traffic, people will eventually come, provided you are writing about of some interest. But if you are targeting regular readers, infrequent posting means you may lose them. As I've said many times, I am guilty of this on several of my blogs. Hence, those blogs tend to have very few regular readers, and thus a much larger percentage of traffic comes from search engines.
(c) Copyright: 2006-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
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What my web metrics for my blogs and websites are showing is that on the days that I post less entries, my traffic is lower. So is the traffic for the next day, which sometimes sets off a chain reaction: disappointed in my traffic, I blog less, finding some excuse to distract me. Until I can get on the ball again and start posting.
I've also found that, for the time zone I live in, if I post between 11:00 pm and 1:00 am, I manage to get my blog posts indexed early enough that I get some morning traffic, as well as evening traffic, the next day. If instead I wait until the next morning, I seem to lose out. But I do start capturing traffic again later in the evening, next day.
Still, in the long run, this may not matter. If you are targeting search engine-referred traffic, people will eventually come, provided you are writing about of some interest. But if you are targeting regular readers, infrequent posting means you may lose them. As I've said many times, I am guilty of this on several of my blogs. Hence, those blogs tend to have very few regular readers, and thus a much larger percentage of traffic comes from search engines.
(c) Copyright: 2006-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
Technorati Tags: blogspinner, blogging, pro blogging, multi blogs, writing, web traffic, web content
