How many posts do i need to pull daily in order to be successful in the long run? I currently do 1 or 2. I feel that this is getting me nowhere. I'm receiving something like 30-50 uniques/day and 100 impressions.... that with 80 articles 400 words each. Google's sending me aprox.100 uniques over a month of time... I'd like to compare my results with other bloggers. I write about politics/society/media ...
I suggest you read the following article as well as the comments posted to the article. The article discusses much of what you are asking about. Blog Case Study - Is it time to Quit?. I'm posting on four blogs right now. I try to add three posts to each of them daily. Sometimes only one on each during weekends. A big function of what you are asking comes down to how long your blog has been active. 1 month? 6 months? One year?
Darren's post is well worth reading. His points about design and layout are very valid. My main blog at the moment has a very basic WP theme with a couple of minor customisations. Reading that post has made me want to change the theme to something more "catchy"
That post @ problogger was my motivation to create this thread. ...and to blog more often. I just find it hard to spit out half a dozen pages every day....that would take HOURS. I currently spend maybe 60-120 minutes each day writing articles....another 30 minutes commenting other blogs.... My theme's also very basic...maybe I should make it look better...but I'm not that good at creating (header) graphics and stuff. Oh and btw...my Blogs 8 months old...
My two major blogs I post about three times per day. I have one secondary blog that I post to about once per day, but normally a longer post. And a fourth blog I'm a guest on I post about twice per day. So I average about 9 posts per day. They key comes down to efficiency. Having a large number of sources to draw inspiration from, keeping a log for future subjects to blog about, etc make large differences in how long it takes you to post frequently. On that topic, I have an article coming out soon taking about blogging efficiency; my tips and tricks to produce a quantity of quality posts in minimal time. I'll try to remember to add the link to this thread when I finish it.
I'm not sure what my posting frequency is, but I know it's influenced by a number of factors including inspiration and energy. If I am not inspired I'm not going to blog simply for the sake of blogging.
thanks for the link above. Posting frequency is important for a number of reasons but mainly because it builds the size to your site - and for every post you do you increase the chance of your blog being found via search engines. I see each post as a potential doorway to my blogs. Having said this you need to be careful you're not just posting anything for the sake of it. Quality is obviously key too. I set myself goals and give myself little rewards if I meet them. As I meet goals and earn more income from my blogs I've been able to set more time aside to blog which in turn allows me to increase my posting levels. I guess over time this is the strategy that has let me go full time.
I want to earn at least 1-5$/month to pay for hosting and domain name. 1$/day would be awesome... @oziii Quality is a high priority when it comes to my blog. I want my readers to come back
and that $5 is earnt through adsense? You need to have posts that target keywords, but leave readers hungry for more and therefore likely to click on the ads. If they get all the answers they won't need to click.
You're right that quality is essential for successful blogging - but quality and quantity need not be mutually exclusive
Again it comes down to the definition of success. In this case success isn't in having a useful blog, it's in earning ad-revenue. If the quality is there then people won't need to click on the ads...
I tend to think it's best to try and develop a readership; this gives you some legitimacy, and also means you'll get other bloggers linking to you in their posts more often. I see a lot of people throw out different numbers on it, but just anecdotally, the ideal spot seems to be 1-2 extremely well-written posts per day; enough time for stories to linger above the fold and pull in comments and pageviews from your front page, but frequent enough that you're still putting lots of stories out on the search engines and getting your stories in the 'Newest Post' RSS feeds on directories pretty often.
I'm doing something new with my wordpress blog. In wordpress you can write "static pages" as an addition to your normal blog entrys. You can display all static pages with a function called "wp_list_entrys" or something like that. What I did know is to put the 5 last static pages on my sidebar. I use those pages as an addition to my regular blog. As a place for quick thoughts and news, This way I should be able to grow both, readership and Keyword Content for google....
I made my blog so I have a place on the Internet. Traffic isn't very important for me. Maybe that's why it doesn't have any traffic.
I wouldn't care about traffic numbers if my blog was of personal nature But I spent countless hours on writing what I believe to be quality content and I deserve to reach a decent number of readers. BTW, my stats are picking up. I'm currently avaraging 40-50 uniques a day. 10 of them from searchengines.