What do you think is the optimal number of blog posts a day? I am thinking in terms of SEO, but without putting off readers. Is it better to have several average-quality posts or one excellent post? Which will generate high google rankings?
If you can provide one excellent post per day for longer than a few weeks, you will be on your way. As far as SEO, it's about quality, not quantity. No need to dump a bunch of average posts or repetitive information on the net. You are just wasting time and bandwidth.
Thanks. That was my gut feeling too. I'm writing together with another blogger. Do you happen to have any links/info to back up that view? I'm new to this, and I'd like to present credible opinions to my fellow blogger, who is suggesting at least three posts a day for SEO.
You want to do postings daily or atleast on a regular schedule. Most posts will be average. But also do a weekly or bi-weekly very high quality (link bait) post. That way the readers are not overloaded with juicy information. They can pace themselves in the devouring of your content.
Great idea. How do we differentiate high quality, or in-depth posts from others (for instance quick news posts, or basic info), visually or otherwise?
It all depends on what you are blogging about. For instance if you are on wall Street and taking about daily stock news, you probably need to post a few times a day to have the most recent information throughout the day. If you are blogging about automotive repair, it's more important that you are as thorough and informative as possible since posts like that will take some time to prepare. There are other ways to provide updated info without posting multiple times a day: RSS feeds Calendar of events Facebook and Twitter, just to name a few. There are too many variables for there to be a right or wrong answer. It is mainly dependent on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Know this, readers will likely only visit your blog once a day (or every few days) and read one article on each visit unless you are a source of some kind of Breaking news or information. If that is the case, you need to provide multiple subscription options, so that they can follow you on Desktop and with a PDA or Smart Phone.
Depends on what your blog used for. If you just want to use your blog to post back links to your website, then the more the better, maybe at least one post per day. If you want to write some useful and new things in your blog, then it is no need to update so rapidly, two or three days a post is OK.
well, one post per day is more than enough but you have to make sure that just for the sake of writing and increase numbers, you do not serve bad quality posts or this may backfire
2-3 no. of posts per day are good for SEO and readers. Your post must hve quality content so u can get returning visitors.