Site Visitors From Blogs

janeth · #1 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 08:43 AM

My thinking is that if you can make 30 plus post, per day, everyday, then by the end of one year you can be getting millions of visitors to your site just from your blog. I've not tested it, although I'm really interested in knowing if it will work.

I have tried a couple times to test my theory using different blogs but ended up loosing interest in the blogs with in a couple days and never making more then about 5 post per day.

I think I'm going to try it again using my GeeksOnSteroids blog and the forums to find information to post about and see what happens.

Chris · #2 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 10:27 AM

30 posts a day? are you talking about the "copy and paste" posts or posts with actual original content? the latter of these two, posts with original content, takes longer to produce and because of that, 30 in one 24-hour period is a little much... and that's w/out sleeping.

janeth · #3 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris

30 posts a day? are you talking about the "copy and paste" posts or posts with actual original content? the latter of these two, posts with original content, takes longer to produce and because of that, 30 in one 24-hour period is a little much... and that's w/out sleeping.

The content has to be original. I don't it would be that hard to come up with short post. I'm not talking about articles but short post.

Take a look at http://perezhilton.com/ here is a guy that started with nothing but has become very pouplar due to his blog and he makes around 30 post per day.

I'm just wondering if the number of post have anything to do with how pouplar the blog has become?

janeth · #4 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 10:48 AM

Just for an idea on the amount of traffic his blog gets.

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Hilton claimed that on November 29, 2006, his website served over 3.97 million unique visitors in a 24 hour period.

Chris · #5 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 10:52 AM

yeah, but you don't need long posts when dealing with Hollywood. you can sum up everything you need to know about these "celebs" in one or two sentences; sometimes, with only one or two words (vapid, useless). ;)

however, internet marketing is a little different. altho, i'd like to see a headline-like blog for this industry. if you could do it like fark or techmeme, you might be on to something.

janeth · #6 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris

yeah, but you don't need long posts when dealing with Hollywood. you can sum up everything you need to know about these "celebs" in one or two sentences; sometimes, with only one or two words (vapid, useless). ;)

however, internet marketing is a little different. altho, i'd like to see a headline-like blog for this industry. if you could do it like fark or techmeme, you might be on to something.

I thought you had a blog at one time Chris?

My understanding according to fc_liam a member of another forum is that http://www.engadget.com was in the top 1000 of Alexa and it gets around 30 post a day. The post are a lot longer.

Chris · #7 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 11:53 AM

i do have a blog - http://blogs.webpronews.com - but i don't make 30 a day. my latest post took me about 1/2 hour to write and another 20 or minutes used "researching" the topic. so unless i'm spending my entire day - minus sleep - i'll be hard pressed to see 20 posts a day, let alone 30.

as for endgadget, don't they have a number of contributors? if you are really shooting for that number, i'd recommend getting some contributors.

janeth · #8 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris

i do have a blog - http://blogs.webpronews.com - but i don't make 30 a day. my latest post took me about 1/2 hour to write and another 20 or minutes used "researching" the topic. so unless i'm spending my entire day - minus sleep - i'll be hard pressed to see 20 posts a day, let alone 30.

as for endgadget, don't they have a number of contributors? if you are really shooting for that number, i'd recommend getting some contributors.

I agree about getting the contributors and will start working on that today.

Have you ever looked at how much of an increase there is in traffic on the days you post verses the days you don't post?

I also thought you had a lot more people doing blog post on WPW?

Chris · #9 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 04:37 PM

sorry for my delayed response... duty calls and all that. as for traffic fluctuations, the thing i've noticed when it comes to traffic has to do with the subject and the title of the post... even more than my posting frequency.

another time i see more traffic is if i link out to some of the other SEO/SMO gurus. they will usually drop by and comment or link to my post from their blog. but i don't doubt frequency helps as well (some days are definitely better than others).

as for the other people, we do have blog contributors to WPN, but i'm normally the only one doing updates on the WPN blog. sometimes other authors post there, but it's normally just me.

janeth · #10 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:07 PM

Hi Chris,

I understand about getting tied up with other stuff.

If it has to do with the subject and the title of the post, I figure if I post every day, 30 post, then in a years time I'll get at lest one with the subject and the title of the post right. (-:

I'm also looking into fark to see how hard it would be to set something like that up for a marketing site.

**incrediblehelp** · #11 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:10 PM

30 posts a day? Blah! Now that is passion and time. I guess if I was kid again living at home I would give it a try.

I know doing testing with auto blog software (in the past) making 10-12 scrapper posts on a blog about entertainment (pick a subject) can really get some traction in the SERPs. The reason is simple your usually the first one with a page on the topic.

Of course we all know scrapping is garbage and I do not advise doing it. I was just testing.

bj · #12 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:18 PM

Apparently the buzz around the top blogs is that if you post prior to 7AM US EST you realize an increase in traffic in the neighborhood of 10 to 20% for that post. I've been using timestamp so I can do that, since my brain is too mushy to write that early in the day.

Mentioned here during last week's Open Mic:

www.successful-blog.com/1/the-mic-is-on-are-we-stat-crazy-or-analytical/

janeth · #13 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

30 posts a day? Blah! Now that is passion and time. I guess if I was kid again living at home I would give it a try.

I know doing testing with auto blog software (in the past) making 10-12 scrapper posts on a blog about entertainment (pick a subject) can really get some traction in the SERPs. The reason is simple your usually the first one with a page on the topic.

Of course we all know scrapping is garbage and I do not advise doing it. I was just testing.

I'm playing with the site design and updating everything on the site right now but I'm going to give it a try.

If I'm correct then 30 post per day should double what you were able to see with the other blogs?

janeth · #14 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by bj

Apparently the buzz around the top blogs is that if you post prior to 7AM US EST you realize an increase in traffic in the neighborhood of 10 to 20% for that post. I've been using timestamp so I can do that, since my brain is too mushy to write that early in the day.

Mentioned here during last week's Open Mic:

www.successful-blog.com/1/the-mic-is-on-are-we-stat-crazy-or-analytical/

Thanks BJ, I'll look into that as well. I'm up at around 5:00 am and can give that a try. I can even write the post the night before if it works out.

TrafficProducer · #15 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:25 PM

Maybe you need an actual Blog site, www URL, and not a blog?

The idea, to get traffic is to have users, (will take work to moderate posts), post their blogs resulting in Traffic..

janeth · #16 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by TrafficProducer

Maybe you need an actual Blog site, www URL, and not a blog?

The idea, to get traffic is to have users, (will take work to moderate posts), post their blogs resulting in Traffic..

You could be correct but I'm thinking most people will find the blog from links so the name should not matter at first and if someone types in the site name there is an easy to find link to the blog there.

But then I could be wrong.

red · #17 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:37 PM

This post has me wondering why I don't have a blog for my own site. I certainly realize the value in having one. Problem is I haven't got time to learn to make one right now and could sure use a hand. My site is a Miva merchant site and, of course I'm willing to pay for the work. Can any of you recommend someone that has familiarity with Miva Merchant sites? Please PM me if you are interested (after looking at my site) or can recommend a developer that could accomplish this for me.
Thanks!

janeth · #18 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:50 PM

Hi Red,

I want charge you anything but can have one of the guys take a look at it if you want.

dburdon · #19 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:50 PM

Hmmm.

This could kill the whole credibility of blogs. I'm sure with such high output quality falls. In the end, when everyone has a blog, all that they will write about is other peoples blogs.

janeth · #20 (**permalink**) 01-23-2007, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dburdon

Hmmm.

This could kill the whole credibility of blogs. I'm sure with such high output quality falls. In the end, when everyone has a blog, all that they will write about is other peoples blogs.

I've not seen very many people that follow through with anything, so I doubt that will ever become a problem. (: