Scheduling articles or publishing 100 at once?

I wouldn't publish them all at once. You are better to schedule them. Then you have material publish for a long time, depending on how many you schedule per day. It takes the pressure off you having to write more in the immediate future so you can focus on other aspects of your business.

As a writer myself I have clients who order lots of articles at a time so they can schedule them when convenient. I have one client right now who wants 52 articles....one per week, BUT I can do them all when I have time so he stays ahead. I will probably do them all within a month or so, depending on how much other work I get in.

Now you have a picture from both sides of the coin.

You have to be careful about posting that many articles at once. I've done it but it caused all kinds of indexing issues as some of the content was pushed back and buried deep within the site and either not found by the spiders, or they decided they weren't important enough being so far from the homepage. Eventually ended up putting the site in WMT to get it all sorted. Pain in the @ss. Google also loves fresh content on a regular basis, so just schedule it and feed the beast.

Thanks a lot to both of you for your advice. I still have a lot to learn!

schedule, don't publish all at once

Yeah...common sense is to release one or two every other day or so.

Personally, If I was setting up a new niche site I would start out with 10 pages posted & drip feed the other 90 pages to keep my traffic coming back for the next 90+ days. That helps train traffic into returning to the site.

Another tactic is, If you have an evergreen site with say 1,000 pages, start from the oldest pages/post & change the date to make it look like new pages for traffic. The larger the site the easier it is to make old pages look like new content. Most people won't look at the entire 1,000 pages (example) so any new post in their email is most likely new content to them.

Example, If I post an evergreen page on Dec. 2008 & Joe Blow subscribes to my email list on Feb. 2013, doubtful he's ever seen that old 2008 web page. change the date & send out the email... new content to the subscriber, traffic lands on your site/page.

For SEO posting all the pages at once would obviously get Google indexing the pages faster & find internal links faster.

BTW, it's very easy to fake page dates in Google SERPs. I have evergreen pages created in 2008 that show SERP dates less than a week old. I'm good like that, lol.

Schedule them. You don't want a sudden burst of links going out. Make it look natural and slowly drip them. That's what I'd do. Big G will see a nice slow but constant amount of links and be very happy.

Wow, I didn't expect to get so many answers, thank you so much! Compared to the other forums I used to frequent, this one seems much more active : )

Nik0 and Yukon, it seems you are saying there is no SEO benefit in scheduling the articles, except for getting visitors come back by themselves. My articles are kind of "reference" articles, ala wikipedia, but around a specific topic, so I do not need people to ask themselves "is there something new on the site today". My only concern is with Google and how to use these original articles in the best way for getting new traffic.

Nik0 I read your article, thank you so much for all those tips, I learnt new things for sure!

Without a doubt schedule the posts, that way you can take time to build links to the posts and see what's working and build a potential readership.

Blasting all the posts at once isn't all that natural.

I would advise you to release the articles at a steady rate of 2 per day. One in the morning, one in the evening.

Post 20-25% of the articles and schedule remaining at 2-5 per day/week depending upon your site.

So long as you are writing good ever green content, you can easily save the articles and publish them later. If the articles cover timely or time sensitive material, it's best to publish now.