Comments on: Blogs – the more you post, the higher you rank – Technorati / TechCrunch http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2008/09/blogs-the-more-you-post-the-higher-you-rank-technorati-techcrunch/ Web Analytics, Social Media and Search Marketing Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:53:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PJ Brunet http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2008/09/blogs-the-more-you-post-the-higher-you-rank-technorati-techcrunch/comment-page-1/#comment-2737 PJ Brunet Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:34:12 +0000 http://www.webmetricsguru.com/?p=3306#comment-2737 How many of those top-100 are actually one person, not a network of people? I wouldn't jump the gun here. I've found the problem w/ posting too much, the content doesn't have time to sink into the search engines. You let that last post sit there a while in the root, search engines notice it more. At least that is my opinion/experience. Also, think about comments. You post 10x per day and I don't think you'll get as many comments per post, and I'm pretty sure comments are good for SE rank. And obviously, the more you post the less time you spend editing. I think editing is very important, especially when you consider everything you write is burned into the Internet for eternity. I've tried posting very frequently, not-so-frequently, I don't see much difference in terms of traffic. I suppose it depends on where you get your traffic from and if you're writing time-sensitive stuff. In my experience it's only a few posts that generate most of your traffic. I looked at TechCrunch's stats once, that was the case there too. If you know how to write heavy-traffic posts you'll never need to post more than once a day. Maybe a good analogy is the stock market, you don't jump on every opportunity, you wait for strong signals. If you're flirting all over the place you'll be distracted. How many of those top-100 are actually one person, not a network of people? I wouldn’t jump the gun here. I’ve found the problem w/ posting too much, the content doesn’t have time to sink into the search engines. You let that last post sit there a while in the root, search engines notice it more. At least that is my opinion/experience.

Also, think about comments. You post 10x per day and I don’t think you’ll get as many comments per post, and I’m pretty sure comments are good for SE rank. And obviously, the more you post the less time you spend editing. I think editing is very important, especially when you consider everything you write is burned into the Internet for eternity.

I’ve tried posting very frequently, not-so-frequently, I don’t see much difference in terms of traffic. I suppose it depends on where you get your traffic from and if you’re writing time-sensitive stuff.

In my experience it’s only a few posts that generate most of your traffic. I looked at TechCrunch’s stats once, that was the case there too. If you know how to write heavy-traffic posts you’ll never need to post more than once a day. Maybe a good analogy is the stock market, you don’t jump on every opportunity, you wait for strong signals. If you’re flirting all over the place you’ll be distracted.

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