How Often Should Posts be added to ones blog?

[GaryJay]

I have been told I post to often, that most people won't look past the current post at older stuff, and that if I post two or three times a day I am wasting my time? I have also been told nobody likes to look at a blog only to find it has the same post one read two days earlier?---whats everyone else think?

Gary(old dude)
ThreeScorePlusTen

[axioblogger]

There would be different opinion on this issue. But in my opinion, content doesn't matter as much as traffic. If you like write a very good post and it took 3 days to research. If you have no traffic, sorry no one will read your post. Your post will decay on your blog. But if you have traffic, it will be the talk of the blog. Haven't seen blog where the blogger posts what he will eat and it has more than 20 comments. Then there are post that the blogger post how to be No 1 on google, yahoo, MSN, Cuil, ask and the post gets no comment.

[GaryJay]

Thanks for the reply Axioblogger----I was kinda hoping maybe you would have checked out my blog and given me your thoughts, but hey least ya commented on my forum input, appreciate that. You didn't leave the url of your blog in your signature, so am unable to comment on your blog??

Gary (old dude)

[axioblogger]

Originally Posted by EarthCrisis

I beg to differ with your opinion. I have posts that are over a year old on my blogs that still get a few hits every day. You really have to understand SEO to understand why the key to getting huge traffic is to keep publishing original content, submitting it to social media sites and linking to your posts as much as possible.

The number of comments on a post has absolutely nothing to do with how many times an article has been read and certainly nothing to do with howmuch money a blogger has made from a post via Adsense, CPA ads, etc.
Over time, you'll see that traffic grows exponentially and the older posts are still indexed in the search engines. Especially with Google, the higher you're blogs PR goes, the more relevance your articles will get in search.

Don't get me wrong, if a site is old it is already establish and google loves it. But his question was how many times to post and not how useful SEO is. If he posts 5 times a day without SEO, google will not get his site. If he has oly 3 post in 6 months and he SEO his site very well, he will get authority in google eyes.

[Ferox]

I have different frequencies for different posts.

My vet student blog aims for 3 posts per week (monday wednresday and friday). It's a pace I can keep up with because some weeks are slow, sometimes I'm completely drained and sometimes I have posts that I can 'save' for busy times.
My writing blog gets two posts a week. That's pretty reasonable because these posts take work, and I don't go in for memes or awards very much.
The others are quiet right now because life is busy and complicated.

Once daily or every other day is a pretty good rate, because visitors will drop by at most once a day to look for something new, and if they see the same post two days in a row they're not going to mind that much, they may assume that they're just early. Not a lot of blogs manage to update daily with good content.

[GaryJay]

I hear both of you guys----so have to ask---whats SEO? and how does one flag one down?

[TheGeek]

I'd say, 3 posts a day is way too much. People check blogs every now and then. If they come back and have to read like 15 posts to catch up, they are not going to read.
I would aim at 3 posts a week. If you are a frequent blogger, 1 per day (to attract daily visitors) but no more than 2 posts per day!

[GaryJay]

I see your running a commercial blog, that is to say promoting your business, as such yes three posts a day would be to much. I on the other hand am running a personal blog--so post whenever something comes to mind. Your right not all readers will take the time to go back and read posts they might have missed, but my posts are not sequential, so if one misses one or two, they have not missed anything of particular importance. If I don't post frequently then my readers who most check daily would become bored.

[axedbydax]

try to socialize...join forums and other communities for bloggers. That way, other bloggers will have an idea ablout your blog and visits them and probably post on your articles. but as a blog owner, and if you want people to come back, put some goodies on your blog. Update them from time to time so people will have something new to look at and comment on...Cheers

[Bloggeries]

Whenever you have something good to say; preferably not more than a week I'd say if you're doing it seriously.