251 Days Of No Blogging - The Results
I thought I'd share this. WordPress developer/social media manager/SEO expert Robert Ryan conducted a simple yet enlightening experiment. In 2015, he refrained from posting any new content on his blog for 251 days. That’s eight months and seven days.
Overall traffic to the site saw a major decline as it fell by 32 percent.
What can we take away from these stats?
Blogging affects overall traffic
When Ryan quit blogging, his traffic rapidly fell by 32%.
The fact that Ryan’s overall traffic dropped by nearly a third during this time is tangible evidence that there’s a correlation between your blog output and your overall traffic volume.
You can read the full post here:
https://robertryan.ie/the-no-blogging-experiment-is-over/
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Oh man, I don't think I could stand not blogging for that long! Lol I could probably go about a month. Lol back in 2008, (because I've been blogging since 03,) I kept breaking WP on my personal blog and went about a year without blogging. I finally just decided to switch the blog over to Blogger, where it's mostly been ever since. Lol I've done some migrations to test services, and went back to WP in 2014, but switched back in 2015. I've decided that I'm a WP person for good this time, so will be switching after my domain expires. I'm going to let it expire so I can get a .blog. Lol sorry for the long comment!
Content is important. In the beginning it is everything, When your website has become well known, and drives a lot of traffic.. any new content becomes topping or spices to what you already have on your website...
Yes content is important. but I would focus on quality. I'd rather have one very in depth post or a page rather than 5-6 average posts or pages. That one quality post would get shared more..and it would hopefully solve a persons problem.
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A stark reminder for all of us. Thanks for posting
Thanks for your comments..