This is a question I get asked a lot. I used to blog 2-3 times a week. The last 2-3 months I have been working a blogging mentor and she’s put me on a blogging challenge of writing a blog post every day.
I must admit I was sceptical initially as I didn’t think blogging each day would make a huge difference (apart from the added work of having to write fresh content and of course respond to the comments and promote my blog) How wrong I was.
Now before you panic and think I’m about to suggest that you should be writing a blog post every day, I’m not going to. For me, it was the next organic stage for me to increase my traffic, awareness and credibility in my marketplace. I was already blogging 2-3 times a week and getting around 90,000 visitors a month with 775 optins each month. But I wanted more. And I didn’t want to pay for it. But before I sing and dance and clap my hands and rave about how blogging every day has transformed my business it has cost me. Time – and time after all is money.
I’m a great believer in asking for things (if you don’t ask you don’t get). I wanted more traffic, more optins, more sales, more comments and more people talking about my blog. Did I get it? You bet I did but I also had to increase my working hours to get it, often working crazy hours replying to all the comments I wanted.
So my point in this blog post is it’s all very well saying how often should you blog but it’s about so much more than that. With each blog post you have to promote it, you can have the best SEO in the world but let’s face it doesn’t happen straight away (plus I get 57% of my traffic from social media) and you will probably want to promote it across your social media networks and other places. This takes time so if you’re blogging every day like I am, you have to promote your posts each day.
It takes time coming up with fresh content, often I have to spend 2-3 hours researching something in order to be able to write an article. So if you’re blogging every day you need to have the time to be able to write the content, promote it and deal with the follow up comments after.
Of course coming up with great content is a challenge in itself. And there are times when I’ve sat at the PC (sorry not a MAC user yet) and willed it to inspire me into what to write about.
I feel like I’m being a little ungrateful. I asked for more traffic – I got it, the last month I’ve had 155,000 visitors. I asked for more subscribers and have been overwhelmed with increasing it to 2,500 a month. I asked for more comments and have been astonished that I’ve had nearly 3000 comments. All of this has come from blogging each day and listening to what my readers want and attempting to give it to them, to you.
So yes I’m a happy girl. I love blogging. I love how people visit my blog and share my content. I love how you take the time to tell me the good, bad and ugly about my blog (yes I know a few of you aren’t fans of the pop up… ) What I really love more than anything is getting to know you all and connecting via other channels as well. And of course it’s great to be able to monetize my blog – makes the time and effort worthwhile. Yes blogging is time consuming, but I’m getting quicker at writing my blogs and the promotion is becoming easier as I’m getting a lot of repeat visitors and the SEO from writing every day is catching me up.
So how often should you be blogging? Well that really does depend on how often you can come up with great content that gives value. It also depends on how much time you have to promote your blog and respond/engage with your readers. Before you make a commitment of how often you will be blogging make sure you’re consistent, there’s nothing worse than seeing a blog post and then nothing for another month or few weeks.
What do you think? How often do you blog? Do you find blogging time consuming? Are you making money from your blog? Please do leave a comment and share:)
Lilach
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205 Responses to How often should you write a blog post?
Thank you for the insights, Lilach. I’m not sure I could blog every day but do want more traffic. Your article has really set me thinking and wondering – again.
Thanks Margaret. Well if you want something bad enough you have to work for it. There are two types of traffic, paid and unpaid. And I don’t do paid traffic so I need to work hard to get it. How often are you blogging at the moment?
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I have been reading about blogging on a site called blog advice, I think people might find that site interesting to read, very helpful like this site. here is the link to that site. http://www.blogadvice.info
Blog every day, every single damned day… every day is the only way you’ll improve at anything
It’s not just improving traffic it improves your writing skills, your research skills and as a social media consultant you have to prove you can do what you say. Which means more writing 
Thanks for the mention Lilach, I have only room for 2 more mentoring clients on the same package as you though. Get in quick if you want the places
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Thanks Sarah:) You’re 100% right, it’s not just about the traffic and money it’s about improving my writing… whether it’s improving or not remains to be seen though lol
Keep cracking your whip:)
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I blog every day and on some days multiple times. There is a definite correlation in the amount of traffic I see relative to the frequency of my posting.
What I haven’t done is taken real time to measure retention rates from the traffic spikes. My gut tells me that I am gaining new readers but I can’t tell you at what rate.
Thanks Jack:) I’m impressed that you’re blogging multiple times a day. I hope to get to that stage in a few months.
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Are you using “metrics” and one tip, that has helped us, is to Challenge your readers with questions on each post, provide simple “polls”, “surveys”.
Polls and surveys also provide valuable info for future posts and readers LOVE to read what others are doing
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I’m so in love with your site! This is my first time here but it won’t be my last. I’m right where you were when you decided to begin blogging every day and although I’ve recently upped my number of posts per week, I’ve been considering doing it every day. And after reading this post, I’m ready for it! YAY – thanks for the inspiration
Thanks:) So pleased you’re inspired to write daily now:)
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Really great post Lilach! This is a powerful a call to action.
I have been blogging once a week and creating other content during the other days as well.
After all, my focus is trying to run my business… but I want my blog to grow too.
Some people say once a week is o.k. and it is, but not great.
Your results speak for themselves
Now that I have set up my SEO plan and have gotten into a regular content creation schedule… and after reading this post, I am ready to step it up! I plan to begin with three a week and then more in time…
Thanks
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Thanks Ragnar:) I think it’s good to start off with 2-3 a week so that you can maintain that consistency in not only writing fresh content but dealing with the promotional side plus of course the comments etc.
A content creation schedule is really useful, I use a blogging editorial calendar and it really helps me stay organised:)
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Hi Lilach, I’m always interested in this topic. I’m thinking that 2-3 times equates to both good quality and quantity. I have to imagine when blogging everyday that inevitably there are posts that you’re not thrilled with, but put out there for the sake of blogging daily? Is that something you run into? You mention 3000 comments. That is very impressive. Is that over a month time period or longer?
A blog post showing your GA numbers before at 2-3 posts/wk for month versus blogging daily for the month would be very interesting to see. Seeing what different Social Networks drive traffic would be valuable to view.
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Thanks Steve. I think it’s better to write 2-3 quality posts than just write for the sake of it. I do also have a guest post out once a week so technically speaking I’m only writing 4 times a week, although since I’ve started blogging more regularly more and more people are asking me to guest blog for them too…:)
The comments is since I’ve been writing daily so for the last month or so. That said some blogs attract a lot more comments than others, I have some that are nearly 200 comments and others 30/40 so it’s very variable on the topic. In fact that’s another good reason to write more regularly as you can test what gives you the best results (in terms of more traffic, more shares and more comments).
Stumble Upon and Twitter are my biggest traffic re social media, but it’s not surprising seeing as I have nearly 60,000 followers on Twitter.
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Hi Lilach! I have the same challenge myself..lol. I think that every newbie should start with a 90 days blogging challenge. This is the the best way to get really committed to it. And yes it is hard, but it get results. I failed my challenge, but I have learned a lot in the process
Currently I am occupied with so many projects, so I try to come up with good content about 2-3 times a week. I completely agree that marketing your post is a least as important as (if not more important) than writing good content. This is something that I only recently realized, but it is comforting to see someone like you think the same.
Thanks Hezi. You haven’t failed, we’re all learning and it’s about learning how to set realistic challenges:)
Yes marketing the blog is just as important as writing great content and that takes time. We have to factor in everything and if your’e working on several projects you have to prioritise. Also it’s about what gives you the best results and expanding on that.
For me, I was already blogging 2-3 times a week so it was the next step to increase it.
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Btw. love your little small post popup thingy that appear at the bottom of the page. How is it called?
Thanks Hezi, I wrote a blog post about it here (as well as all the other plugins I use, hopefully you’re find some other useful plugins there too:) http://www.socialable.co.uk/21-wordpress-plugins-i-cant-live-without/
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Well I write everyday but only produce a post twice a week (it was once a week but I’ve already improved!)
Not sure I’ve quite got the time for everyday – time is money as you say … but may make it my challenge to produce one every other day … hmmm … oh what the hell … let’s go for it!
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Thanks Gemma:) I say go for it too – if you’re writing every day why not turn them into blog posts:)
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Found this a really interesting blog and definitely something I needed to read – I’m off on a blogging adventure now, thanks Lilach!
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Thanks Pip, my pleasure – enjoy your adventure:)
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Next milestone: 1 M readers/month.
I admire your determination and commitment to being the blogger. Writing, promoting, and hand-holding four or five blog posts per week is a full-time job.
You mention that you’ve monetized your blog. How? I don’t see ads. I’m sure it would be helpful to people to know how they can do it without advertising too.
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Thanks Stan:) Yes 1M readers/month would be awesome:)
I monetize my blog via various income streams, affiliate earnings (I occasionally write a review of a product that I use and that earns me money) I work hard at building a list via my blog and promote products/my services through that. My main income stream is my consultancy/social media management services and affiliate earnings. I rarely go to any networking events and I don’t do any advertising so everything comes via my blog.
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I do agree that it is important to blog as often as possible though I guess it is down to priorities. If you have other tasks that offer more opportunity then do that but I think it is a great discipline to do it in a regimented manner if at all possible.
I need to commit to making more videos and video blogging more… is that something you have done much of Lilach? I am thinking that it may be a great way to keep adding content and makes it easier to add more description and information
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Thanks Stefan. You’re right, it is down to priorities. My main focus the last few months was generating more traffic and building my list so I put all my energies into that. I also found that I can get more business from blogging than I can from going to a networking event (in terms of the time aspect, plus I have a lot of clients overseas).
Video’s – me too:) I need to do them as well, its’ good to have a mix of content although I have found that videos don’t product as many comments. But videos are really useful, particularly how to ones and I’m planning on creating more of them in the future:)
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Great post Lilach and a kick up the backside for me as I am too sporadic with my blog posting… A commitment to a post a day is a positive step towards building up great content.
I have just bought a new Iphone and am going to use it for more social media work, blogging and in particular, video which I want to add to my blog as well.
For me, this is an efficient way of quickly and efficiently creating content as you can be spontaneous with recording your thoughts and ideas and then add to it by writing further comment in your blog as you add the video to the post….
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Stefan that sounds like a really good efficient way to generate content. I sometimes dictate my thoughts as find it easier to think them than write them down!
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Again another great presentation, Lilach.
I just “scooped” you post on Scoop.it
We have discussing Content Curation on our LIVE talk show the past few weeks and Curation COULD be a help for many to increase their Blogging efforts and increase readership through the edification of others
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Thanks so much Chuck – appreciate the scoop:)
Your live talk show sounds awesome, please do feel free to share the link here in case anyone would like to listen in:)
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Great article Lilach!! Blogging frequently results in thousands more visitors a year and more opportunities for people to see your content. It will help you gain exposure and build your following.
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Thanks Brian, absolutely:) So why aren’t more people doing it?
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Lilach,
I found that when I post everyday I lose people. I think they get tired of me at that pace. My readers read other blogs and I do believe they only expect 2-3 posts a week. BUT…
I am a believer in the idea that it depends on the niche you are in. Some niches need to be updated ever day, some can get away with weekly or even monthly. It all depends on how saturated the niche is and how much your readers can handle.
Thx.
~Allie
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Thanks Allie, that’s really interesting as I find that the more frequently I blog the more my visitors come back again plus I get a whole load of newbies too…
I disagree with it depending on what niche you’re in and blogging as little as monthly. Sometimes you need to train your readers so that they can get to not only expect you to blog but are asking you for more:)
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Hi Lilach, I have entered a blogging challenge and I have been blogging daily for the past 15 or so days. My website is new…we just had a face lift about 2 months ago and it’s really time consuming. The thing is I have an MLM business as you know and i think that my blogging is taking over a little…what do you suggest? I am not monetizing my blog yet and that’s a lack of experience I think so nothing i can’t fix …but it takes time to monetize a blog…Do you have a tip for what would be “the best 3 things to start with to monetize a blog”? Thanks girl…you rock!
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Thanks Nathalie:) Best of luck with your blogging challenge:)
Well I guess there is a reason why they say blogging daily is a challenge – because it is. It takes a lot of time and effort as you’re experiencing. I think also it’s about having realistic expectations with your blog and traffic particularly in terms of monetizing it. It doesn’t happen overnight and I do think it’s a numbers game. The more (targeted) visitors you get the more optins and the more people buying from you.
I monetize my blog by promoting the odd affiliate product and getting new clients for my social media marketing business. I’m also working on creating my own products and am hoping to be launching them soon.
I made a concious decision not to monetize my blog in the early days, I wanted to build up my readership, traffic and optins so that when they got to a certain level (like they have been the last couple of months) I could monetize it much better as I would have built a relationship with my readers.
There are many people who are looking for a work from home opportunity and if you give them lots of advice and literally take them by the hand and show them how you can help them you will start generating more leads from your blog as well. But blogging isn’t just about creating great content you have to be driving traffic to your blog too, once you have both then you’re start to see a huge difference in profiting from you blog.
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First let me congratulate you on your traffic. 90000 visitors (unique?) a month is really not bad at all! In fact it’s pretty good. I see that you have less than 1 pc of optins and perhaps this is the figure you ought to try to increase? Can you imagine what you would achieve if you doubled your optin ratio?
As for the number of times new articles have to be added, what is important that is that they are added consistently. In order words if someone can do only one article a week, it should be done every week, and not some in one week, and then nothing for several weeks thereafter.
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Thanks Stevie:) You’re right, I really want to improve my optin rate, hopefully that will increase as time progresses.
I agree re the consistency, if you’re going to blog once a week make sure you do:)
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OK, Lilach…once again you have inspired me by your wonderful example.
I could say a lot but I’m just going to say THANK YOU!
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ahh bless you thanks Terry, my pleasure, really appreciate your kind words:)
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Lilach, I must say that every time I read one of your blog posts I get more and more impressed each time. I actually have been thinking about this topic all week, what should I post and how often? I think my aim is to probably try and post at least 3 times a week for the short term, and then try and build up to at least once per day within about the next 6 months or so.
What I try and do is research all I need to do in one day and write all the posts one time. I then schedule them to the timetable I want, this way, I can focus on doing one thing at a time, posts today, squeeze pages tomorrow, phone calls the next day and so on.
Thank you for a fantastic resource.
Keep Moving Forward!
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Thanks Alan, that means so much to me:)
I think you’re on a very good plan – start off with what you can realistically do, as researching and writing content and of course the promotion etc does take time. I started off with 2 a week, then 3 a week and now 5 a week, it’s the best way to do it rather than dramatically go from 1-2 posts a week to every day – it will certainly be a shock to the system if you did it that way and also harder to maintain.
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Hi Lilach,
I am trying to blog 2 -3 times a week. Blogging is time consuming, but I don’t mind because it’s fun! I really enjoy interacting with my readers and responding to their comments. I just signed up to work with a blog mentor and am really looking forward to it.
You are doing a great job creating great content! I really enjoy your posts.
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Thanks Jamella:) I agree it is fun, I too love interacting with my readers and really enjoy it when people take the time to comment:)
Best of luck with your blog mentor, I thoroughly recommend doing that, it really does make a difference to your blog and business:)
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Thanks for this post Lilach. I have been blogging daily since October. Today, I posted my 100th post. I am seeing results which started at around 90-95 posts, just as I was told by those who give blogging instructions. I just joined a 100 day cahllenge, so I will be near 200 posts when that is over. Should be interesting to see how much traffic I get by then. The hardest part is reading and commenting on others – very time consuming! This is really good information – thanks!
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Thanks Val – wow 100th post congrats:)
Yes you’re right, the hardest part is reading and commenting, it’s very time consuming but then I think blogging is time consuming so you need to make sure you have the time and a plan so that you can monetize it:)
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Awesome content Lilach, very impressive and you have a way with sharing your thoughts makes a person want more. Very inspiring! Kareem
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Thanks so much Kareem, really appreciate your great comment:)
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What an inspiring post, Lilach?! And something so relevant to all us bloggers. I’d like to create a post everyday, but that’s the easy part. It’s the marketing of it that’s challenging time-wise. So currently I put up 2/3 posts per week. At this point, I’d rather be consistent than too ambitious. And this discipline is creating the simple and predictable routines and habits that make marketing a breeze. Then, like you, I hope to increase it to one every day. Cross my fingers.
Love your posts and your blog. Keep ‘em coming. And don’t ever let me see your PC, for I’ll talk you into a Mac.
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Thanks so much Srinivas:)
I agree, creating the content is the easier part, the marketing side and having the time to respond to comments etc. is the hard (but very rewarding) part:)
I think you’re doing the right approach, it’s so much better to be consistent and set yourself realistic goals. I used post 2/3 times a week and it was a natural (push) progression to writing daily.
You can talk me into a Mac – I will get one hopefully later this year:)
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Hi Lilach, publishing a new blog post every day can certainly help get more traffic and subscribers and as you said it takes a lot of time and time is money so it always depends from what you really want from your blog.
If your blog is a new one and you don’t have a lot of subscribers or sales for your services blogging as frequantly as you can is probably the best and most effective way to grow your blog on a level where you will have to spend more time with your clients.
After this level I would choose to spend more time with my clients rather than writing new blog posts (actually you can continue publishing new posts everyday day if you allow guest posts on your blog).
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Thanks Kostas:) I actually allow guest posts every Friday which helps:)
I think ultimately it does depend on what you want to get out of your blog. I think in a way it can be harder for a newbie to write on a daily basis, after all they’re learning.
I must admit I do juggle managing clients and looking after my own blog – but that’s one of the challenges in business and I see my blog as part of my business development:)
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Nice post, Lilach!
It’s a debate my wife & I have too: how often to blog. We enjoy, as you do, the interactive nature of blogging, but, like all of us, have to balance the time spent vs. writing books, developing content for paid membership sites, coaching, etc. Of course, blog posting can be coaching our prospects too
Love the use of ‘linkwithin’ to refer reader to relevant older posts showing books that may be of interest. Blog posts take time to research, write & promote, so this is a very nice way to introduce other, previously written, content to readers. Like it! Will ‘model’ that
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Thanks Vinden:)
I agree blogging is a time consuming task and it’s about balancing what you could be doing with that time. My main focus for the last few months was generating traffic, building a list and (attempting) to show off my expertise and raise my credibility.
I love linkwithin too, great little tool that works well:)
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Like you Lilach I am blogging every day in an attempt to increase visitors and comments, but it is extremely time consuming and probably impossible to do all the time.
Dave
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Thanks Dave:) Yes you’re right, it does take up a lot of time. Have you tried accepting guest posts on your blog to give you some time back? I do this every Friday and that helps:)
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I have been working on getting a blog post out everyday. While my traffic is nowhere near yours, I have seen a direct correlation between consistently blogging and an increase in traffic.
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Thanks Preston – great to hear it’s working for you too:)
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Lilach great post. I think for someone just starting out they should start with a realistic number, maybe 3-4 times per week. As you get comfortable then you can move on daily blogging. I myself struggle with creating new and valuable content, but it takes time, continued self growth, and knowing your outcome. Thanks Lilach
Thanks Ryan, you’re absolutely right, it does take time and the more you do it the easier and quicker it becomes.
I think for newbies they should start out at once per week and then gradually build it up. It’s more important to be consistent and do it every week rather than every couple of weeks as when you’re new there is so much to learn.
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Wow Lilach YOU ARE ON FIRE! GO GO GO!
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hehe thanks John, I’m burning lol
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Good post. It definitely works to excellent articles on a daily basis. You increase visits to your site tremendously. However, it depends on what’s your objective with your blog. If you are selling something it definitely makes sense and for those of you who do, it may be a good idea to hire someone to write for you if it has an impact on sales that allow the extra expense.
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Thanks Catarina:) Yes I agree, it does depend on what you want to achieve from your blog.
If you don’t feel confident in writing it’s worthwhile hiring a copywriter but I also think it’s important to write some blogs so that you can create a tone and style – people want to hear your voice afterall:)
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Great post Lilach and congratulations on your goal setting and results achieved!
The blog challenge experience I had in November was great and it gave me a boost to me and my site on the other hand a coach needs to work on many things at the same time such as programs, products, coaching clients, marketing and all the work behind promoting the bogs on the net.
Content is King as well as time management in my case;)
Thank you for this enthusiastic post, passion is needed to get results!
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Thanks Patricia:) You’re right – content is king and so is time management:)
There are so many things to do in business, the amount of time you’re working on clients I find I spend the same amount of time on developing my business.
I guess we’re all given the same amount of time every day and it’s what we do with it that counts:)
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I find consistency the hard part. Towards the end of last year I decided 3 posts a week. Particularly since the new year I have stuggled to do one a week.
I certainly agree with your comment Lilach that “frequency should depend on how often you can come up with great content that gives value”. That’s a must. So many people churn out really regular content that does neither of those things.
If there is one thing I do try to get right and that is “quality” before “quantity”. So my goal right now is one good quality post, that adds value each week.
Thanks David:) I think you’re doing the right thing. It’s much more effective to product one fabulous post a week than 2-3 rubbish ones that don’t provide value.
As long as you’re consistent in your approach then that’s good too. Hopefully in time you can get back to 2-3 a week but for now keep up the great content:)
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I have been blogging everyday for the past month or so and it was a challenge at first and still is at sometimes because life gets in the way but I find a way to do it. It has made a huge difference in my traffic and you can tell even how one day of not making a post can make a difference in your traffic. Thanks Lilach.
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Thanks Duke, you’re right it is a challenge and there are days when I sit at the screen and think what shall I write about – I mean how many posts can you write about Facebook?!!
It does make a difference though when you’ve gone from doing it every day and miss out the odd day. I see a dip at the weekends too although I’m finding (surprisingly) that it’s not dipping as much as it used too.
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This a wonderful post, especially for new bloggers – like me. I have a full time job and is difficult to write a blog post every day. This is my new found passion and I’m definitely going to strive to get better. Thanks!
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Thanks Katrina:) If you have a full time job and are new to blogging start with one a week and see how that progresses – remember you have to have time to research, write and promote the blog:) Best of luck:)
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Hi Lilach, Is it true that if you don’t blog at least once a weak, the search engines will downrate you? Maybe I just notice it then. Perhaps they have bumped me after my blog…and it gradually erodes and I do not notice it.
My goal is to do 3 posts a week. One for my blog, one as a guest post, and one on the forum. It is said that one should state their goals, right?
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Thanks David:) To be honest I don’t know about Google downrating you if you don’t blog enough…
Best of luck with your goal and yes you should state your goals rather than have them in your head. I would print them out too and stick them somewhere you can see every day:)
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Thank you for an excellent post Lilach
I am struggling to really get going with blogging and you have inspired me to get on with it. I don’t think I’m up to every day just yet but I think a target of twice a week to start with is very attainable. So thank you for helping be decide to just do it!
Thanks Jenny, my pleasure:) We all need that bit of inspiration and motivation – you’re not alone:)
Best of luck with your target:)
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I’ve seen people get fantastic results with daily blog posts. But even better when they combine that with a daily email notifying their subscribers immediately too.
I can’t recommend daily blog posts highly enough for anybody who has the willpower to do it.
I’ve taken a blog from almost zero comments to some posts with over a hundred in less than five months before and it was all based on a strategy of daily posts, daily emails, and Twitter.
It’s simple but it works and that’s what I’ll be doing with my own blog as well. This is the kind of advice I’m happy to share. Thank you for another wonderful post.
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Thanks Courtney:) I too send an email to my subscribers but must admit I don’t do it daily… just once a week. Perhaps I should think about that although I’ve always been concerned about emailing too often…
I too have generated heaps more comments just from blogging daily, it’s amazing what the difference is:)
Keep up the great work:)
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This post is so great. This contains a lot of useful details that I myself able to apply it on my work. Thanks a lot for sharing; it is really nice to read your post.
Thanks Christian for your comment:)
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Hi
Nice article post. I probably fall under the “The Generic”mostly sprinkled with “The Nonsensical”because I was too busy acting like “The Non-Reader”.But this time I was
“The Truly Interested”.
keep it up
Thanks
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Thanks Asad, appreciate your comment – pleased you’re truly interested:)
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Your most welcome Lilach it’s my pleasure to take part in good bloggers conservation.
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My goodness, you are all so good! I set a new goal at the beginning of the year to blog once a week, never mind daily. I am impressed with anyone being able to write that much. For now my goal remains the same as before… once a week. There is just too much to do with the rest of the business to allow for more.
What I am impressed with Lilach is your new post on getting comments. You clearly do very well with that and I am inspired. Thanks so much.
Thanks Tessa:) You have to start somewhere with blogging and once a week is a great place to start.
I also found that the more frequently I blog not only does my traffic, shares etc. increase but so does the amount of comments I get:)
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Hi Lilach,
Very well said. I am trying to do the same now, increase my blogging per day. The challenge is there as I like creating quality content not just off the cuff stuff. But, as you said, it is time consuming so one must have a plan and vision to guide them or else they will get burned out real quick otherwise. The passion fuels the writing and strategy for getting the content out there. The reason I changed my blog into what it is now as it is more in line with my passion and that is easy to write for.
best,
Joe
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Thanks Joe:) I think you’ve done the right thing. If you’re not passionate about what you’re writing about and not a copywriter it will be terribly hard to write great content on a regular basis.
There are no wrong or right ways here… I was merely saying that for me when I started blogging every day my traffic dramatically increased – but at the same time so did my time!!
I think as long as people are consistent with their frequency etc and provide valuable content that is the most important thing:)
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Lilach, my issue is I have very little time to research and perfect my content. That is why I hardly submit posts along with everything else. I am very good with time management, but the majority of my time is taken up form so many other things I have going on in my life. Therefore, I have to come up with a plan B. I’m not sure what it is yet, but I m working on it.
Thanks Tisha:) As part of your planning process I would ask yourself why you want/need to have a blog. For me I wanted to be able to not only provide value and share my expertise but ultimately to monetize my site and the only way to do this is by blogging regularly (unless you pay for traffic).
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Yes content is indeed King:)
Thanks for your comment:)
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Just now I have started my blog posting it every day and sharing that in some popular social media sites like facebook, google+ and twitter, hope I will get some good visitors like yours in future.. keep rocking…
Thanks Caroline:) It does take time but you will get there. I get so much traffic from social media so it does work if used effectively. Don’t be afraid to write the odd controversial post either as that can really generate a lot of traffic and works particularly well on social media as it goes viral:)
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I used to blog 2-3 times per week and then went up to 5 times per week. I thought it was going to annoy the crap out of my subscribers but it’s actually increased traffic and subscribers! Yay!
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Yaay – fabulous news Katie:) I think people are always worried that they will annoy their subscribers but I now get people nagging me for new posts!
It just goes to show how blogging regularly can make a difference:)
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I was stopped in my tracks by the impressive figure of 90,000 visitors per month then read on to find you now get 155,000 visitors. This is my first visit to your site but I’d love to know how you built up to those levels of traffic. Is it mostly from social media?
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Thanks Matt:) I get around 50% of my traffic from Twitter alone. The rest of my traffic is a mixture of other social media sites, Google, guest blogging and people sharing my content etc.
I’m not going to lie, it didn’t happen overnight, I found that once I increased my blog to daily it did jump up significantly though. It’s taken around 8 months to get to the level of traffic is it now. But I’m looking to continue to increase it so watch this space!
I hope you’re come back and visit again soon:)
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i just started blogging so any info i can get helps me out alot..thanks for all the time you put into your blogs i am starting to learn alot..i wish there was more people like you out there to help us people that need it lol
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Thanks Danny, my pleasure:) It can be very overwhelming for newbies when blogging not to mention time consuming.
Please do have a nosey around my blog as I’m sure you’re find a ton of information to help you start getting results from your efforts:)
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Lilach, thanks for sharing this excellent post! I just love the way you connect with your audience. But 90,000 visitors to 155,000 is just awesome!
As a life coach I must admit my challenge is keeping up with my weekly blog post but I do agree that blogging is one of the most cost effective ways to reach your audience.
That being said my blogging goal now is to move towards 2-3 times a week!
Keep writing these great articles!
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Thanks so much Sandra:) We all have to start somewhere and I started blogging once a week and then gradually 2-3 times a week before I went on to blogging daily. I think it’s more important to be consistent and give value than just blog for the sake of it:)
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That is powerful Lilach.
Many fail to remember changing habits, routines and skill sets is a PROCESS.
The “I want it Now!” syndrome needs to conquered and discipline emphasized.
Again, thank you for sharing reality
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Hi Lilach
As always I find your articles inspiring, they give one hope that by following a few guidelines and keep on doing the same things day after day, that the in time the results will be forth coming.
Thank you, wish you every success.
Mike Smith
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Thanks so much Mike:) Whilst it doesn’t happen overnight if I can achieve I’m 100% certain that everyone can if they simply follow the steps of providing great content and value, are consistent and gradually increase their blogging:)
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Hi Lilach – I really hate pop-ups, but I know just how powerful they are.
Really interesting post, and I know I need to blog more frequently, just wish
I could achieve more , and efficiently !
Always learn something new here – thanks !
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Thanks Barbara and my sincerest apologies for the delay in responding.
Pop up’s are really like marmite, people either love em or hate them! I don’t mind them but I can see how they can annoy people – the key to getting it right is to have a good incentive… it tends to lessen the annoyance lol
Appreciate you stopping by and commenting:)
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Blog is a very useful for knowledge gain. daily blogging is quite difficult but not impossible. Blogger have to understand about readers mindset and research about more and more informative topic to create blog. And make sure that after publishing your blogs you must bookmark those with different bookmarking sites.
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Thanks Samdonna, appreciate your comment. Daily blogging is indeed difficult but as you say not impossible. However it’s more important to not only be consistent in terms of how regularly you write but that the quality of your blog posts is high and offers value to your readers.
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Hi Lilach,
I am only blogging once per week and then putting it up on twitter. I will expand and start posting it everywhere else that I can. I think that is the first step really. But this was super helpful to understand it is about quality and about promotion. No point it blogging every day if its not going to have those two components. At least that is what I gleaned from your article so for now I”m on the right track and I think I have a general plan for growth. Your growth is very exciting so I will continue to read what you have to say! Thanks for sharing this!
Love and Success,
Jessica
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Thanks Jessica, appreciate your comment and I’m so sorry for the delay in responding.
Pleased you found the blog post useful and as you say it’s much more important to provide great quality content that engages your readers.
Hope to see you again soon:)
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What I’d like to know from the people who blog every day is this: do you have a day job? I could absolutely not imagine putting out a quality post every day on my full-time work schedule. I can barely eek out one post a week — and that’s on a good week!
Still, Lilach raises a good point in that discipline is necessary if you want your blog to succeed. Sigh. Guess I better get to it.
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Thanks Singlegirlie, appreciate your comment:)
To be honest this is my job – I’m very lucky as I’m a full time blogger but also provide other services too.
Discipline is definitely important when blogging as there is only so much time in the day. But if you do work full time and your blog isn’t part of your business (as mine is) I don’t think you should be so hard on yourself and it’s less needed to blog daily, in fact weekly bi-weekly is more than sufficient.
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We’ve been tracking posting habits for customers for the past year at http://www.bloghawk.com and we’ve just opened up some high level reports on how often companies/bloggers post new content on their websites. We’ve really noticed that most of the time, sites traffic grows at a steady pace regardless of the amount of posts per week. Based on our findings, we suggest that instead of cranking out content, divide your time between marketing yourself elsewhere to drive new visitors to your site, and writing compelling posts for them to find so that they return.
Thanks Glenn appreciate your comment. Interesting findings. I’ve noticed that whilst I used to blog daily (at the time of writing this blog post) I’ve slacked a lot and am not writing as regularly (although am planning to get back up to speed and do this) and do find that the days when I don’t write a blog post I do get LESS traffic. However the traffic is still steady and that’s partly because a lot of my content gets shared via various social media channels.
Thanks for stopping by and apologies for the delay in responding, I’ll be checking out your link so thanks for sharing.
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Hi Lilach! I am new to blogging and I’m learning rapidly! SEO has very much helped me achieve reasonably quick results in alexa. 23 Feb I entered alexa at 7.8million and this morning I was 3.3million so it is positive! I know I can’t commit to a post more than once a week. However, I have succesfully linked my blog to my e-commerce website and I have plenty of topical material to choose from – fashion & maternity!
Thanks for your advice in your post.
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Thanks for your comment, great to see your Alexa ranking improving and I’m sure it’s going up all the time:)
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When I first started my blog, I blogged every single day for three months. It wore me out. Then I cut back to five days a week, then four and finally I quit my blog for six months. After six months, I started missing my old blog. It was like a child in some respects. So, I opened it back up. I blog twice a week now. But, the difference is that I do not let the blog rule my life for me this time. I felt committed to blog each day. I didn’t enjoy it. Now, I blog twice a week and enjoy it much more. Incidentally, my blog will be four years old in April. That is ancient in comparison to most today. I enjoyed your post.
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Thanks David, appreciate your comment and apologies for the delay. I guess one of the challenges I face in blogging daily is keeping up with the 100′s of comments I receive
Blogging should be enjoyable and not a chore so as you’ve clearly identified, if you don’t enjoy it you’re going to struggle to post regularly. I think it also helps to write about subjects your passionate and knowledgeable about.
I too started blogging about 6 years ago although that was with my old business and sadly is no more!
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Hi Lilach,
Wow, this was surely a great way to get an inside peek into the world of guru-level blogger. (Sorry if you don’t like the term guru, I mean it with the utmost respect…I don’t like the reference most times because of how badly the term is bastardized these days, but in your case, it is clear that you’re operating on a level most will silently covet.)
I’m pretty new to the active blogging aspects. My blog is about to turn 1 year old, but I didn’t really start using it til August-ish 2011. I’m squeaking in at about 2 or so posts a week. My priority and focus have been on my primary business, but I am able to be faithful to around 2 blog posts per week at this point.
I’d like to do more, but need more arms. My Ganesh-act leaves much to be desired. lol Bottom line is I need to relinquish some level of control to a viable outsourcer.
Thanks for sharing how you have done what you do!
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Thanks Cat for your lovely comment, I really appreciate your kind words. I’m so sorry for the terrible delay in responding to you, I too need more arms:)
Look forward to seeing you again soon:)
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Blogging is all very new to me and learning so much through great articles and blogs like this. I try to post fresh content 2-3 times a week which is challenging given everthing else that lands in my lap but it is easier when you focus stick to a plan. I’m impressed with the quality of your content and number of comments.
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Thanks very much for your kind words Gary.
As long as you’re not too hard on yourself if you don’t keep to your plan, and you keep enjoying blogging regardless of how frequently you blog it sounds good to me
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Well while readers like that blogs are updated regularly they also prefer quality over quantity. If you can deliver 10 average articles a month or 3 really good ones a month I better prefer the second approach, because writing just because you have to write won’t bring any value.
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Thanks so much for your comment Steven and apologies for the delayed response.
I definitely agree with you, I always suggest quality over quantity
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I Would happily blog every day, and think I could easily find interesting things to write about. However it doesn’t really seem worth the effort whilst I have very few readers. Eventually I would like to make some money from my blog…the question is how? I need to take it more seriously for a start… But that’s kinda my problem
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Thanks for your comment and I’m so sorry for the delay in responding, that’s one of the additional challenges of blogging regularly – responding to the 100′s of comments:).
That’s a good question re making money from your blog, I wrote a blog post here with some ideas – hope you find it useful:) http://www.socialable.co.uk/how-to-make-money-from-blogging/
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First time visitor to your blog, and I have to say that you seem to have some nice content. But do you have to enable the popup script for EVERY single page?
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Thanks Wayne for your comment and apologies for the delay in responding.
The pop up I continually test and tweak and make changes in terms of how frequently it appears etc. It’s a very powerful little tool that helps build a list but I completely understand how it can be annoying for some people – but it works and as long as it continues to work I will use it. That said currently it doesn’t show on every page:)
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I was at 3 times a week. Last week I decided I needed to cut back to twice a week. I’m still learning how to get emotion into my writing — I’m a pantser, so in my head, I think it’s in there, but the readers aren’t finding it. With 3 times a week, I always felt like I was reacting to getting a blog up to meet the deadline. It was also becoming too time consuming trying to come up with topics (I changed my “brand” in conjunction with this). Twice a week takes the pressure off so I can focus on the quality side, which is what’s important now.
I also made a decision to keep the blogs short: 250 words or less. That’ll keep it from turning into a lot of time.
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Thanks for the comment Linda and apologies for such a delayed response.
The key to becoming a successful blogger is to firstly enjoy yourself, and most importantly don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Finding a subject area which your passionate about writing about also helps. I would recommend longer posts, they tend to offer more value (particularly with lists) but also help with SEO and Google.
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Lilach,
That is a serious amount of traffic… no doubt.
What I tell newbies who would be dealing with a slightly smaller crowd is Blog when you can add Value. If what you are about to post isn’t adding value to your audience don’t hit send.
But obviously the more often you can add value the better you are going to do.
I’m glad I found your post here.
Thanks!
Ryan H.
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Thanks ever so much for the comments Ryan, and apologies for the delay in responding.
I agree that the content should always be of value and never written just for the sake of it
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Great tips about blogging. Blogging is an excellent source of organic traffic and goes a long way in branding and bring awareness to your site.
Although a blog post (article) a day is an aggressive goal but worth the erffort. I’m excited about starting again.
Thanks ever so much for the kind comments Lukeither, and apologies for the delayed response.
A blog post a day (from personal experience) is extremely effective (both in terms of traffic and building a loyal readership) although I’ve not been blogging on a daily basis, I’m currently trying to get back into the routine of doing it more frequently.
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That said, if your main page is very strong and it “votes” by a link to this sub page then the sub page will be strong because of this “vote”.
Thanks for your comment Charmaine, much appreciated
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Great reminders! Many of us know the value of blogging but seeing the results you’ve had make them more real. It can be challenging, as you mentioned, to come up with topics for our blogs on a daily basis, and I write on three on my own blogs, but it’s clearly worth the time and effort.
Your post has come at a great time as I just joined another blog challenge, which starts April 1st. Thank you.
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Thanks Yvonne your comments are much appreciated.
Its definitely rewarding once you see your hard work has paid off
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Great Article. When you increased the frequency of your blog posts, how fast did you noticed the uptick in traffic?
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Thanks Nelson appreciate your comment and apologies for the delay in responding.
In answer to your question I found that after 2-3 months my traffic went up considerably. However we should always be careful what we ask for as I wanted to generate more traffic but in doing so means that I get a lot more comments and of course that means you need even more time to respond to everyone.
It is really much more important to provide quality posts that provide value and are more likely to get shared than to blog “filler”posts daily.
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In my opinon i think simply writing articles for name sake is not important, it should be unique, i think writing article each day is important, and the articles should be unique.
Thanks ever so much for the comment Balu
Yes, good point, and its also worth mentioning not only should it be unique but the content should always be of value to your readers.
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I have been writing a blog too, and thanks to Lilian’s advice, I have been increasing traffic to my blog. More of the same please. http://bit.ly/HanJEU You guys can check it out and give me feedback here.
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Thanks for the comment Ch, its great that your getting really good results
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I have heard Google is penalizing websites for overposting! Is that true?
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I’ve never heard of that Adeel, I highly doubt that is true
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hi lilach and all bloggers
i am writting one article each week , its not easy for me to write every day , not lot of time
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The way I see it long as your blog is full of valuable content it doesn’t matter, particularly as these days a lot of traffic comes from social media channels.
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Hi Lilach. I just recently revamped and republished my site and I currently blog once a week with the intent to increase over time. I also guest blog here and there. I would certainly have enough to say to blog daily but need to focus my energy on finishing the various other projects I am currently working on and serving my clients.
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Thanks for the comment Sabine, Absolutely, if you gradually increase the frequency of your blog posts you’ll soon reap the benefits, good luck with it Sabine, I wish you all the best
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This is such an inspiring post! I created my blog a few months ago but only recently started writing frequently, what a difference it has made though, in terms of organic traffic, as well as referral traffic from places like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
After reading this I’m going to make sure that I post at least a few times per week and try to move towards daily posting.
Thanks
Jase x
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Thank you Jase your compliments are always much appreciated
good luck with your blog posting I’m sure your traffic will increase in no time!
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Interesting point about physically asking for comments and I need to work on that but more importantly the idea of promoting my blog posts. Thanks!
PS I get a message saying you cannot confirm a feed at each of my sites and don’t understand that one??!
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I used to blog once a week but now I post every single day and I love it. However, I had to make a few adjustments for this to happen. For instance I have narrowed down the number of things I focus on. i read around several issues but blog around just a few.
I used to blog on different websites and I found it quite exhausting to blog regularly about very different issues ranging from technology trends, to social media and motivation issues. I now really focus on one website and blog and it makes life much easier.
I used to think I would run out out of things to write about but there is so much content on LnkedIn.
My blog posts are also now much more detailed than before though it takes less time to write them.
The next stage for me is to promote my blog posts a lot more as I have not been aggressive with that.
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Thank you for the comment Bruce it is much appreciated! Apologies for such a late response
You’re absolutely correct, you are better to discuss fresh, high quality content in relation to your niche and most importantly, what you enjoy to write about the most. Good luck with promoting your blogs, I wish you all the best!
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Hi Liliach. I agree with you, there is no one best answer for how often to blog. I’ve heard some gurus say you should write once or twice a week while others say every day. The right answer really depends on how much time you have versus what kind of results you want. I think you are the first person I have read who has said that.
Wayne
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Thanks ever so much for the comment Wayne, and apologies for the delayed response. I’m glad you agree, that it depends on how often you should write. I just think that there is a happy medium with some bloggers. On the one hand writers should not exhaust their content if their subject field is very narrow, on the other hand, if you do not blog enough you miss key trends and fresh content which would ensure that your blog was of a high quality with valuable content
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Hi there, personally i feel there is no certain amount you should blog and to timer on how often you should, i have write posts on my site about this explaining how you should blog when it is best suited for you.
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Thank you for the comment Dillon, and apologies for the delayed response. I agree that there is indeed no certain amount of times you should blog a week
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Hello Lilach,
I haven´t read your blogs, but this headline of your captured my attention (we are living in the attention economy). How often you should blog? I like to open your and your readers minds. Regarding HubSpot study it is nessesary to blog minimium 26 times per month. More better if you blog 51 time/month. One blog post “living time” is 48-72 hours (one tweet living time is 20-25seconds). All this is founded out if you like to benefit your blogging to your business. Not all blog post are good in content, when you expand 3 per daily run, but nor is your followers all reading it daily. And if you want have more relevant content at your blog, why don´t we use visitor pens/ writers? If we are honest to our self, can we really be so interesting people that we will have people who only want to read our thoughts? On same HubSpot study is mentioned that one blogpage “building up time” from zero ground will take 8 months and that there is no business benefit until the followers are over 1,000 (same to twitter, FB fan page ect.)
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Markku TAuriainen
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Thanks Markku for your comment. Interesting study from HubSpot. I think the key to blogging is to keep things consistent and write quality posts. Content really is king and it’s much better to write less frequently but high quality content than write regularly but the content isn’t that great. Content that is appealing to readers is much more likely to get shared and engage your readers.
It does come down to personal circumstances, although a lot of bloggers would like to write regularly simply don’t have the time/resources and I guess one of the challenges with writing on a daily basis is being able to come up with fresh content.
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I agree, blogging is a lot of work;however, I love to write and really write about whatever is on my mind that day. Thankfully writing has always come pretty easy for me.
I just recently started my blog, as I read it was a great way to get traffic and I have found that Google does love it. My pages have been moving up the ranks very quickly and showing up within an hour or so when in the beginning they were taking weeks.
Thank you for such a well written article!
Blessings
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Thank you for your kind words Victoria, and apologies for the delayed response. It’s good to hear that writing comes easily to you and it’s great that your traffic is increasing at such a rapid pace. I think blogging doesn’t have to be hard work if you enjoy it and it’s done correctly! If people are having to force themselves to come up with a topic to discuss then less blog posts are usually a good idea. Congratulations again for the consistent traffic
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This is really interesting. It’s great to hear how much you’ve increased your web traffic by blogging every day. At the moment I’m blogging a couple of times a week but would like to do more. Like you say, it really is a case of finding the time to not only write the posts, but research and promote them too.
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Thank you for the comment Dina and apologies for this delayed response. I’m glad you found the post interesting, I would say that promoting and researching for your article often takes longer than the article itself! Good luck with increasing the frequency of your blog posts, I wish you all the best
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We have moved to blog posting every single day, and one of the main things we have noticed is that the continued and consistent effort means that we have a steady and continuous rise in traffic which is the aim of the game. Now it is finding the right things to blog about to bring larger volumes of traffic, back to the keyword research tools. Thanks for sharing your findings Lilach, insightful as always.
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Thank you for your lovely comments Nathan, they are much and always appreciated despite the delayed response. It’s great to hear that you have a consistent flow of traffic, that’s the hardest bit out of the way:) good luck with everything and look forward to hearing from you soon!
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My personal advice to people who blog (which does not necessarily make them bloggers) is to do what feels right for YOU. Consider, first, what you expect to get out of posting blog articles.
If blogging is essentially your business, by all means blog daily. However, if you blog to establish your expertise in your business or professional area, blog when you can setting a minimum goal of one or two posts per week. Your audience expects to read something from you, at least that often.
Writing does not come as easily to some as it comes to others. It is far better to post fewer quality posts than a volume of mediocre and forced “babble” simply designed to get your name in front of customers and prospects more often. Fill the remainder of your Social Media time engaging with people on the major and niche platforms and commenting on other people’s blogs.
Do not spread yourself too thin. Do what you can and do it well.
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Thank you ever so much for the comment Marc and apologies for the delayed response. Precisely, blog as often as what feels right and within your comfort is the advice that I give people
Also completely agree that is far better to blog less frequently, but high quality posts than the forced ‘babble’ which you mention. It’s also far more benficial to write a concise and interesting blog which will attract frequent re-visitors, than a mediocre post which will do nothing for you traffic or your confidence in being a successful and decent blogger.
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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I feel that blogging shoudn’t be ‘forced’. Words for the sake of words look as important as (bulk-buy)biege wallpaper and the lack of passion behind it is easily felt. I sometimes have to trawl through newspapers or twitter trends to get some inspiration but I feel it makes a difference when it’s written from the heart and not on a ‘conveyor-belt’ type fashion. HOWEVER, I’ certainly would be happier to get more people reading my blog. So some middle-ground may be what’s required?
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Thank you for the comment Michael its much appreciated and I’m ever so sorry for the delayed response. You are absolutely correct, blogging should never be forced, I suppose this does help if you actually enjoy writing…otherwise what is the point in the first place? The key to getting more traffic is to spend time promoting it to whichever audience it is targeted for, encourage people to share you blog post with like minded people. Trust me, you’ll soon reap the benefits
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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My goal is every weekday but it doesn’t always happen that way. And sometimes I think of posts on the weekend and don’t want to schedule them. I have found that blogging more often is better so I try to blog as often as I am able to.
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Thank you for the comment Julie
it’s great that you’re blogging everyday, as long as you don’t put yourself under too much pressure if you miss a day I’m sure you’ll soon see an increase in traffic.
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Absolutely love this post and so true that time is money. However really appreciate the time you put in and fantastic content you provide. Keep up the good work.
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Thank you ever so much for the lovely feedback Jarred
your comments are always welcomed and appreciated.
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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Morning from Sunny Scotland Lilach,
Came across your tweet this morning, many thanks for the content here. I have been blogging every day for the last 24 days and will endeavour to perfect my blogs (great idea you have to ask readers to subscribe) perhaps that is one of the areas that I am not doing that would help to bring traffice and also asking for comments. All the comments I receive are from spammers but it validates that infact my blogs are out in the ether…. being read in many different countries!!! Ha ha
Many thanks and have a great day
Marlene x
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Thank you for the feedback Marlene its much appreciated. My advice is to just get your blog out there, it’s great that you’re managing to blog everyday as some people really struggle to do this. Ensure then when you promote your blog either verbally or online, make sure you’re informing your target readers rather than any Tom, Dick and Harry. Hope this advice helps! Have a fabulous day in sunny Scotland, heres hoping it remains full of sunshine
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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“It takes time coming up with fresh content, often I have to spend 2-3 hours researching something in order to be able to write an article.” Thanks for acknowledging that quality blog posts takes time to research and write. I am also learning how to get the most out of my content by paying attention to the way your are posting on Twitter. Thanks Lilach.
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Thanks for the lovely comments Electra it’s much, and always appreciated
I completely agree, those who say researching a blog isn’t time consuming are obviously not researching enough and are quite clearly not compiling post with high quality content. Good luck with your blogging, and I hope to hear from you soon, whether it be on Twitter or from your comments on my posts.
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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Hey Lilach,
Blogging everyday can be really hard. But I agree when I put the effort in, my traffic and results really sore. Great jobs on all the opt-ins that is really impressive.
Do most of your opt-ins come from the opt-in box at the end of your blog posts? Is that plugin a particular plugin?
To Your Continued Success,
Beth
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I am planning to blog daily. Should I ? or just 2-3 posts in a week.
Thanks for the question Dharmendra. I would suggest setting yourself a target, perhaps 2-3 times a week initially, then if you feel comfortable to increase the frequency of your posts afterwards. As long as you ensure you are not writing for the sake of it and you can come up with high quality, fresh content which will attract consistent traffic then you are on to a winner
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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I’m not sure about blogging everyday just yet but you’ve definitely given me motivation to do it more regularly than I have been!
Thanks!
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Thanks ever so much Hemma, and I’m glad I’ve given you the motivation to blog more regularly
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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A rule of thumb I live by is at least 3 to 4 new posts a week. It does not sound much, but that’s all I have time for. And you are right when you are thinking now: “Ok, so take more time!”, but working a full+ time job as a software developer does not help…
Having a new domain ( < 6 months ) does not help either. I am a firm believer in delivering quality content. That also complies with part of the dreaded Google SEO updates. Don't you just like Google?
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Thanks ever so much for the comment Jan, I too am a firm believer in quality content, and yes….I often ask myself how we would survive without Google!
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Would love to hear your thoughts on how to come up with topics! I think they’re probably staring me in the face but they often won’t surface. How do you do it?
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Thanks for the question Kristin, well to be honest I write about what interests me and often set up google alerts with keywords of interest so I am notified of any fresh content
hope this advice helps!
Lilach recently posted..The missing ingredients for success
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I have the same problem – how often should one post and what is the mix of posting as in content and promos? Thanks Lilach
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I think it’s more important to post on a consistent basis than how frequently i.e. if you only have the time/resources to be able to do it once a week keep to that schedule.
And in terms of what to write about I definitely recommend posting more content rather than promo stuff.
Hope that helps:)
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I think your blogging frequency often varies based on what you are hoping to accomplish through blogging.
If you are trying to earn enough money through your blog to quit your day job then you will probably have to blog every day.
If you are creating a blog in your area of expertise purely to demonstrate your knowledge and increase your credibility within your niche, then blogging on a weekly basis is acceptable.
And if you blog for fun. Who cares how often you blog?
Daniel
Thanks Daniel, appreciate your comment.
I think there are so many reasons why people blog and its’ important to note as you’ve said that everyone wants different results from their blogging efforts.
If you want to make money/generate a ton of traffic then although blogging every day will certainly make a difference it’s still better to write quality content that gets lots of shares than just write stuff for the sake of it.
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Hi Lilach,
I just launched my personal development blog about 6-ish weeks ago, so I’m a relatively new blogger! To start, I am blogging once a week, but would like to get up to at least twice per week – maybe more in the future.
I think consistency is one of the most important things in blogging, and I thought it was better to, at first, do what was doable – rather than aim for some super aggressive blogging schedule that I couldn’t maintain (yet!).
So, that’s my initial plan…And I’d rather write one super awesome post than several mediocre ones…
I would very much like to get my subscribers and traffic up, though…so blogging more and refining my promotion are definitely top items on my “to learn” list!
~ Rachel
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Thanks Rachel, appreciate your comment and welcome to the world of blogging:)
For a newbie you seem to have mastered the basics straight away! Consistency is so important and it’s much better to set yourself realistic goals that you will keep and be able to maintain than doing the opposite.
Happy New Year:)
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Thanks a lot for this post..
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You have an amazing blog with great reader interaction. I’d love to blog more frequently, but I have 2 blogs, and can only find the time to post to each one every other week. So I’m posting once per week, but only 2x/month to each blog. In between that, I’m writing paid articles, working on my book, continuing to build my platform and responding to comments on my blogs. That’s all the time I have!
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Hi Lilach!
I really love this post. I know that the number of blog posts per week can be a pretty big concern for writers, especially writers in the social media/marketing business. You were very helpful, I’m looking forward to reading more from you!
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Wow, amazing blog structure! How long have you ever been running a blog for? You make blogging look easy. The whole glance of your site is great.
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I usually post 2-3 times a week. Lately I have tried to post 4-5 times a week.
Posting time is what I usually struggle with. Do you have a set time established for publishing your blog posts?
Thank you for the excellent post and continue to inspire us.
Patrick
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