If you’re starting out from scratch, you will probably be wondering how often you should write a new article or post a new blog. My site has been going for a couple of months now and after putting in a lot of hard work at the beginning, my other priorities have been taking over.
This is my first blog since early September. I have had a lot going on with University and website design and have been unable to post. This made me think, how often should I post a new blog entry?
I wanted to be able to post entries on a regular basis. The only problem with this was that I saturated all of my resources early on, making it much harder to keep up with my schedule of a new entry every 1 – 2 days.
How did it affect my traffic?
Whenever I write a new blog entry, I always try and submit the article to around 8 – 10 social bookmarking sites, such as Digg, Delicious and Technorati. It helps to get backlinks (of a low quality but nevertheless a backlink) and also helps to drive traffic to your site. I have had great success with DZone where one day an article hit rank 2 in Google’s SERPs and drove around 500 unique users to my site in the space of 10 hours.
On a normal day where I wrote an article, posted a few comments on blogs and forums, I would receive around 100 unique visitors per day. Personally, I think that is an acceptable level of traffic for my first few months of work. However, as soon as I stopped writing articles for over 2 weeks (my current situation), the traffic would drop down to around 30 – 40 visitors per day.
So how often should you actually write a new article?
I think the key to this is to not saturate your resources. Don’t go out and write 5 articles in the space of 3 days if you then have no more articles to write. I am now going to TRY and write 2 – 3 articles per week, as well as keeping a journal of what other articles I could write in future.
You may be sat there writing one article and suddenly think of a great name for another. Note it down and write the article another day.
