The Differnce Between 3 Posts and 300

[SirHarrrison]

I have just recently started a new wordpress blog site with thesis and had put up my first three posts a while back. Not too surprisingly I had 7- 15 visits in the first 4 days.

Then...
I continued adding posts everyday and my visits have been gradually dropping.

NOW!
The keywords that they are reaching my site with are expanding, but my visitors all together the visitors are getting lower.

The real question:

It is as if the less posts I have the more potent or relevant my traffic will become to the keyword I wish to target...

Does anybody have any research or data to back this up?

[JamesGw]

When you start a new website or blog, you'll usually find that they rank high immediately, then drop off, and gradually increase in rank again. It doesn't help that your older posts, which should be ranking higher as time goes on, are getting pushed back by the newer posts when you're using a blog format.

What blog platform are you using? I notice that this is usually worst with Blogger. Wordpress' tag feature seems to help stop older posts from dying, at least to some degree.

Either way, keep building links and putting content on your site. Your traffic will grow in time.

[searcheo]

I mean it all depends on the quality of your content. If you have 300 posts with mediocre content, your page(s) are bound to drop in the SERPS. Quality content is so important along with a host of other on-page factors.

Maybe you need to focus on a smaller amount of truly quality posts with great SEO.

Also, you may too many keywords that you are targeting. If you narrow down to a smaller amount of focused keywords that are relevant to you website/content...your QS (probably not relevant to a blog), PR and placement in the SE will ultimately increase.

[shaneparksons]

I am guessing that you may have an unbalanced graph between the number of post and the count of banklinks on your site. Let's say, a single page should have at least 10 links from other site(s) to get it to rank for its keywords steadily. Meaning, 300 posts would require 3000 incoming links. Moreover, incoming links suggest priority to Search Engines, thus the more incoming links you site has, the better priority it gets, the more pages will be crawled, the more pages will get indexed, the greater visibility your site will gain.

[SirHarrrison]

Originally Posted by searcheo

I mean it all depends on the quality of your content. If you have 300 posts with mediocre content, your page(s) are bound to drop in the SERPS. Quality content is so important along with a host of other on-page factors.

Maybe you need to focus on a smaller amount of truly quality posts with great SEO.

Also, you may too many keywords that you are targeting. If you narrow down to a smaller amount of focused keywords that are relevant to you website/content...your QS (probably not relevant to a blog), PR and placement in the SE will ultimately increase.

I target three keywords on average. And all of my content is original and on a scale of 1-10 ( I'd say it's a 9)

As of right now, though I am not even targeting my product keywords because I want to keep my site as natural looking as possible to (theoretically) make it rank higher because it is a non - affiliate site an non - branded in any way.