WP Drip Feed and SEO

[Bradley J Anderson]

If I input posts into a blog and set them on drip feed, will a search engine pick up and index these even if they are not set to be published yet?

The reason I am asking is this:

Obviously, the more often you update a blog, the more often the spiders come back. So if I input a post a week for a year, the spiders will be coming by often.

However, if I post 52 articles at once and set them to drip feed one a week, then at the end of the year the search engine will think I haven't posted anything for the last 51 weeks, which means the spiders won't be coming around so much anymore.

Any thoughts?

[IcedSEO-CEO]

Brad... that's the irony of the search engines for you.

If you publish those your 100 articles in one week, it will still be like publishing 1 in one week because they don't count the volume of your update, they count update by time.

it's more like when was the last time this guy posted on this site compare to how many articles have this guy published on this site.

I guess, that answered your question, right?

[Bradley J Anderson]

Originally Posted by IcedSEO-CEO

Brad... that's the irony of the search engines for you.

If you publish those your 100 articles in one week, it will still be like publishing 1 in one week because they don't count the volume of your update, they count update by time.

it's more like when was the last time this guy posted on this site compare to how many articles have this guy published on this site.

I guess, that answered your question, right?

Thanks for your reply, IcedSEO-CEO, but I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.

So if I make 52 posts that are supposed to drip feed in one per week over the next 52 weeks, does Google count that as 1 big post, or 52 separate posts over 52 separate weeks?

I guess the short way to ask would be: Can Google see posts that have not yet been released through the drip feed?

And, if so, are they all indexed at the same time, then, or do the publishing dates on the posts matter?

[IcedSEO-CEO]

Originally Posted by Brad armPitt

Thanks for your reply, IcedSEO-CEO, but I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.

So if I make 52 posts that are supposed to drip feed in one per week over the next 52 weeks, does Google count that as 1 big post, or 52 separate posts over 52 separate weeks?

I guess the short way to ask would be: Can Google see posts that have not yet been released through the drip feed?

And, if so, are they all indexed at the same time, then, or do the publishing dates on the posts matter?

Yes, if you make 52 posts that drip feeds one per week, Google will count them as 52 seperate posts in 52 seperate weeks because it's only live and available to Google when it drip feeds.

No, Google won't see it cos it's not yet public, once they have not been drip fed, it will just be like your normal wordpress draft post that have not been published so Google doesn't see it.

Yes, the publishing dates on the posts are what matters the most and it's even greater if you are using Google XML Sitemaps plugin on your site cos it adds to each post when it drip feeds and that date will be submitted to Google as the day that post was published.

Hope it helped?

[Ian Varnava]

Brad, "scheduling" 52 posts to publish over a year in WordPress is the SAME exact as publishing them by hand, week after week, 52 times. That goes for both search engines and your site's visitors.

You're the only who has to know that you did it all at once and then 'forgot' about it. That's the beauty of WordPress.

[Bradley J Anderson]

Excellent. That makes me feel much better.

Thank you both for your replies. And yes, I do use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin on all of my blogs.

[IcedSEO-CEO]

Originally Posted by Brad armPitt

Excellent. That makes me feel much better.

Thank you both for your replies. And yes, I do use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin on all of my blogs.

Great it helped you, if you need any other help in SEO... do let me know