[gonzogone]

Just a curiosity thing for me here... blogs are starting to roll along for me and I think I've got my brain wrapped around them enough to feel comfortable. Still LOTS to learn though I'm sure. I'm starting to look at the logistics of what type of pace 'should' be comfortable for me across however many blogs I end up with.

Right now, baring the unexpected life things that seem to get in the way at times, like being sick for a couple weeks, I think I could average 30-50 posts per month without stressing excessively. On the low end of that, it's just a post a day on one of them. On the upper end, it's not even two a day. That's currently my goal anyway. Now the trick is continuing to get a more blogs built to spread things out a bit while starting to link them up.

So my question is, how many posts or new pages do you shoot for monthly?


and of course, that triggers another thought... posts versus static pages... thoughts on any type of ratio between them?

[Tigger]

you really think long term you can hold 30-50 postings a day and those are offering unique content with 300-500 per posting? if so your a talented man brent

I work toward 15 a month sometimes a little less sometimes more, but for me the hard part is keeping these postings unique so I'm not running over the same ground / keywords all the time and thats where the hard part comes into play

static v blogs once I have the main static pages in place all my efforts go into the blogs so once live I seldom add static pages...................but like you I'm still in the learning stage

[gonzogone]

can I maintian it over time and keep things fresh? Just have to wait and see. I do find myself using the same terms/phrases if I try to do too much too quickly. When I spot that, I just save to draft and go back to it later.

So far though, I'm working with boob content and finding photo sets that I find appealing. Each one of them tends to be a unique setting, girl is wearing something special or whatever - there is something in the set that sparks my brain and makes it easier to write something fresh to that specific content. With that, I do some keyword checks to see what I can find that I hopefully have not used someplace else.

Overall, I've got a handfull of primary keywords for a site that get put in there with the things specific to the photo set.

I'm all of two months into the blog zone, so only time will tell, but so far, I'm happy with the traffic results. I get hits for the keywords I'm shooting for on the sites and also hits for the oddball things that end up specific to a post. We'll see how it plays out.

For the static pages, I was considering them as useful for doorways using specific keywords and then linking those pages to primary parts of the blog. They will really only show up on the sitemap. Maybe that's too traditional/old of a concept for blogs?

[Gaystoryman]

Interesting, to think of doing 30 or so posts per month, per blog. I think at the beginning that can work, but i have found, a guy gets burned out doing it non stop over time. Plus I've noticed that once you've established the blog, you can sluff off a few days, and still maintain the traffic.

but that is just my 2 cents

[gonzogone]

oh, no... I'm not talking about PER blog - 30-50 across ALL blogs. Each blog past the initial monthish of 3 a week, then gets down to 1-2 hand written posts a week. This is heading to a small network of blogs in a few niche areas, so spreading the writing around between a few areas so hopefully not going brain dead in the process

[Tigger]

oh, no... I'm not talking about PER blog - 30-50 across ALL blogs

now he drops that little gem in

[gonzogone]

Originally Posted by Tigger

now he drops that little gem in

sorry, thought I had that covered...

I'm starting to look at the logistics of what type of pace 'should' be comfortable for me across however many blogs I end up with.

[VoyGeorge]

I knew he was tralking about the whole network.

The successful mainstream blogs post several times a day. But mainstream blog publishers don't tend to have a network of blogs. They'll have just one or two.

I haven't found blogs get more traffic with more posts. While each post supposidly sets a ping, reality is most of those pings get lost in the ether. They're good to alert the search engines to re-crawl, but that doesn't mean you get better SE ranks. (Also, you can ping anything. You can ping a static page just as much as a WP blog post.)

Personally I think you're better off with 15-20 posts per month, and then using the extra time to develop other traffic source, like articles or trades or whatever.

I also find this: It's worthless to keep posting to a blog if it has the same sponsors each time. If you're cultivating repeat traffic, after the second or third trip if a punter hasn't clicked off to a sponsor he likely never will. It makes sense to mix things up. I am not an advocate of ad rotation, though. I think it makes more sense to put the ads into the content, as it were. Contextually relevant that way, and right in their face (and without them really noticing it).

[Tigger]

Originally Posted by student4ever

sorry, thought I had that covered...

missed that, I blame the red

I also find this: It's worthless to keep posting to a blog if it has the same sponsors each time.

does that not depend on the sponsor VG? after all you could be using a blog to promote vod (as I do) and their it works fine with one, likewise if your posting girls if a sponsor had enough and you "could" do a review on the girls again you could use one assuming of course you could come up with the content, which I could see as being a real problem at some stage, after all theres only so many times you can say "cute young girls gets her tits out"

I agree 15/20 a month is my target and most months I hit that

[Hony]

Not sure it really makes a difference. I have blogs with one post a month, some which haven't had a post in a year, others post weekly, had one that posted 5 times a day (automated feeds). I'm not seeing any correlation between frequency of posting and anything else.

[Tigger]

we know the SE's like new content so if a site /blog isn't getting updated its bound to have a negative effect - the question is how often to update - once a day, once a month

[VoyGeorge]

Originally Posted by Tigger

does that not depend on the sponsor VG?

Yes, I think VOD offers it's own engine for increasing sales. You could have a site that pushes new VOD content, and encourages the punters to watch your reviews. That should result in their buying more minutes based on your reviews.

Still, if you're going to be aiming for regular updates I think it also makes sense to keep the sponsors fresh just in case in brings in new money. Not saying you have to change sponsors with each new post, but some change every month or two seems reasonable. The change can also be merely moving the ads/links of sponsors, rotating their position to give different ones the best spots.

[VoyGeorge]

Originally Posted by Tigger

we know the SE's like new content so if a site /blog isn't getting updated its bound to have a negative effect - the question is how often to update - once a day, once a month

Indeed, logic would suggest that, but like Hony, I see very little correlation between frequency of postings and anything else, and that includes traffic and sales.

If you're not going for the blog-to-blog pingbacks and other blog-specific traffic generation then frequency of blog updates ought to be what you do for your other sites. That is, if you found two updates per month per site to be sufficient to keep G, B, and Y interested, I should think that's about right for a blog as well. If your sites need 10 updates a month to keep their SERPs, then do that for your blogs.

IOW, I think the ideal number will vary depending on your content and keywords. If you mainly shoot for longtail keywords I doubt your SERPs will change much whether you update once a day or once a year.

I guess also check what your main keyword competitors are doing, and try to match their schedule. (But be careful not count their updates if they're simply running RSS feeds in. G will largely ignore those anyway.)

[gonzogone]

tons to consider and it really sounds like it ends up depending on what a sites traffic patterns end up being, combined with how many blogs you may have in your network. Also, what percentage overall are blogs to your mix of total sites.

I'm only on #3 launching right now, so a ways off from having these answers yet for my sites. We'll see where it all lands. My goal is to get in some form of rythum with keeping existing ones fresh enough, while building new sites to be released on a reasonable schedule.

[Tigger]

IOW, I think the ideal number will vary depending on your content and keywords. If you mainly shoot for longtail keywords I doubt your SERPs will change much whether you update once a day or once a year.

I agree, but I think the biggest problem with any site/blog is its not so much how often you update but its how often you also add fresh links pointing to the site and one of the reasons a lot of sites slip down the serps is no quality links have been gained - combine that with not updating and your going to slide