How frequent do you release content??

fight_prof · 01-08-2009, 11:20 PM

Hi everyone,

I'd like to hear everyone's general rules on releasing content onto your website.

Let's say you have 50 - 100 original articles on your niche, and you wanted to start a site or blog. For generating traffic, is it best to post all those articles right at the beginning, or do the search engines respond better if you do a few every couple days? Or does it not really matter?

Thanks in advance!

Joanne Greco · 01-08-2009, 11:24 PM

When I start a new blog, I usually post 5 articles at the beginning. After that I space them out 2-3 a week.

blase40 · 01-08-2009, 11:27 PM

If it were me, I would use a Wordpress blog and utilize a plugin that allows you to schedule the posts out so you are posting around a post per day automatically. Posting them all right away will look unnatural to the search engines, and the fresh content posted frequently over a couple months will help train the bots to keep visiting your site.

Good luck!

Adam Bshero · 01-08-2009, 11:30 PM

It depends on the niche... I post once a day on some of my blogs and others once every 3-4 days. My new one dedicated to IM I will post once a day.

dou9las · 01-09-2009, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by blase40

If it were me, I would use a Wordpress blog and utilize a plugin that allows you to schedule the posts out so you are posting around a post per day automatically. Posting them all right away will look unnatural to the search engines, and the fresh content posted frequently over a couple months will help train the bots to keep visiting your site.

Good luck!

Totally agree, and being able to schedule them ahead of time is a great tool.

Google and other SE's *love* freshly updated content. That doesn't necessarily translate to a hell of a lot of content and then nothing for a month. Idea being, google is looking for user generated content and interaction (blog posts including followup comments, forum posts, user generated reviews of products, etc.)

Daily would be great, and so would weekly, but not much less frequent than that, in my opinion.

One more thing: If you have that many articles ready to go, you may want to use some for content on the blog, and post others at quality article directories to generate relevant backlinks.

Okay, one *more* thing: You mentioned "site or blog..." As you may have gleaned from this thread and others on WF, I think the consensus would vote for a blog (not a static site) hands down. Even if you were, for example, using it for a review "site" or even a consultancy "site". Reason being, you can use WordPress to format your blog with static pages (home, about us, resources, contact us) AND have an actual blog, all integrated into one site. I say this is better because, in my experience, blogs just seem to rank better and quicker than static sites do (again, because google loves fresh user content, what blogs were created to do.) The fact that they have all kinds of goodies like auto-ping features and auto-updating xml sitemaps built into them, the ability to generate clean (SEF, search engine friendly) urls, etc. helps to confirm why they get ranked so effectively.

Also, if you do opt to do the above, and have important static content/pages in addition to blog posts, I recommend linking to your static content pages from your blog. It helps, just thought I would mention it.

There is a reason (IMHO) that Aaron Wall (heavy hitting SEO guy, creator of SEOBook.com ) has the following, very simple statement in his signature at SEO Chat Forums:

"I'm blogging this."

My 3 cents...

Ldimilo · 01-09-2009, 12:23 AM

I normally post once a week per site once I have around 10 posts on the site....I personally don't see a point posting everyday. Plus the rest of the week, I do link building and other things to get ranked.

fight_prof · 01-10-2009, 09:56 PM

Thanks very much for the tips guys.

dou9las.... thanks for those tips. I'm not fully sure on how to do the reviews. If I should just make them static pages, or make my reviews actual blog posts. I think I'm going with the latter but not fully decided yet.

dou9las · 01-10-2009, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by fight_prof

Thanks very much for the tips guys.

dou9las.... thanks for those tips. I'm not fully sure on how to do the reviews. If I should just make them static pages, or make my reviews actual blog posts. I think I'm going with the latter but not fully decided yet.

No Problem Fight_Prof (do you do MMA?)

BTW, not to be..."soliciting" but, if your so inclined, just to make me feel good, you could always hit the little "thanks" button next to my post...

forous · 01-10-2009, 11:00 PM

Post everyday for the first week. If you have a lot of articles and you can post 2 times a day that is even better for the 1st week.
Then you can space it out 2 to 3 post a week.
There are more people on their computer during week day and working hours so watch the time that you have the most visit and schedule your post at that time.

freudianslip27 · 01-10-2009, 11:17 PM

Being able to queue posts is a real lifesaver. I think it all depends on what you are willing to crank out. I wouldn't suggest spacing them out any longer then a week, and ideally 3 a week sounds good.

Fresh and regular content is definitely important.

Matt

Desmon G · 01-10-2009, 11:49 PM

I try to add content every other day for the first month, and after that I think once a week is good.

01-08-2009, 11:20 PM	#1
fight_prof Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 40 Thanks: 8 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	How frequent do you release content?? Hi everyone, I'd like to hear everyone's general rules on releasing content onto your website. Let's say you have 50 - 100 original articles on your niche, and you wanted to start a site or blog. For generating traffic, is it best to post all those articles right at the beginning, or do the search engines respond better if you do a few every couple days? Or does it not really matter? Thanks in advance!

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Joanne Greco Libertarian Mama War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Florida by way of NYC Posts: 265 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 31 Thanked 17 Times in 16 Posts Social Networking	Re: How frequent do you release content?? When I start a new blog, I usually post 5 articles at the beginning. After that I space them out 2-3 a week.
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blase40 www.justinblase.com War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 511 Thanks: 16 Thanked 28 Times in 16 Posts Social Networking	Re: How frequent do you release content?? If it were me, I would use a Wordpress blog and utilize a plugin that allows you to schedule the posts out so you are posting around a post per day automatically. Posting them all right away will look unnatural to the search engines, and the fresh content posted frequently over a couple months will help train the bots to keep visiting your site. Good luck!

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fight_prof Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 40 Thanks: 8 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: How frequent do you release content?? Thanks very much for the tips guys. dou9las.... thanks for those tips. I'm not fully sure on how to do the reviews. If I should just make them static pages, or make my reviews actual blog posts. I think I'm going with the latter but not fully decided yet.

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Desmon G Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 34 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	Re: How frequent do you release content?? I try to add content every other day for the first month, and after that I think once a week is good.