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Blogging Frequency

One thing that is often spewed from the spammy mouths of blog evangelists in their lame “Top ten ways to…” posts is this belief that you need to post to a blog at a steady rate in order to rank well in search engines. This blogging frequency superstition shows a lack of understanding of how algorithms work.

I have a neglected off the grid living blog that I haven’t posted to in awhile. Do you think search engines like Google have forgotten about it? Not at all, I could start posting stuff there again today, ping Google and I would be off to the -=races once again.

I got a patriot blogger blog with only 1 post, do you think it is dead? Nope!

Want is the value of posting daily to a blog then?

Maintains your audience – If you are the type that seeks attention via RSS feeds and Tagging the people who use feed readers will forget about you if you do not offer something new once and awhile.

Builds useable content to develop your internet footprint – Ah yes, some build blogs in relative silence and soon you find them ranking with the biggest of internet attention getters.

That is all.

4 Responses to “Blogging Frequency”

1. graywolf Says:
   December 12th, 2006 at 6:10 am

   One could point out that by creating more pages, if done properly, you will be able to target more keyword phrases and rank for a wider variety of terms.

2. Aaron Says:
   December 12th, 2006 at 6:13 am

   “Builds useable content to develop your internet footprint”

   ;o)

3. Halfdeck Says:
   December 12th, 2006 at 12:10 pm

   Well, look at it this way.

   Say you got 1000 people subscribed to your RSS. You post once every week, assuming every subscriber comes to read your post, that’s 1000 uniques a week.

   On the other hand, 7 posts/week = 7000 uniques/week. Post 2x a day = 14,000 visits/week.

   Of course, page views isn’t everything.

4. Aaron Pratt Says:
   December 12th, 2006 at 8:30 pm

   Great summation Halfdeck, thanks!

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