How Many Articles Do You Add To Your Website Weekly?
How many aticles are you writing for your website weekly - 2, 3, 4 or even one a day?
If you are at the higher end of the scale, can you say honestly that you have written first class content - an article that your proud of, an article that will be shared and liked by many.
Also, have you done everything, to get this article on the first page of Google, have you performed throrough keyword research, checked the competiton of the keyword you are targeting, ensure you have optimized the page correctly for on page SEO. included relevant images, and/or videos
Have you promoted and shared your content, with your social media platforms and groups, requested comments from fellow members here at WA, and given great replies to the comments.
Did You HONESTLY answer YES to ALL of the above?
If you can answer a resounding yes, to ALL of the above, then fair play to you - I would think that you are prolific writer, with outstanding organization skills, and probably don't have much time for sleep.
Now, if your thinking to yourself, that your content could be better, or you have not promoted your article as well as you could have then you should stop, and re-think.
There is no set amount of articles you need to write for your website, it’s much more important to promote the posts you already have to get them to #1 in Google.
Quality Is Far Better Than Quantity
The thing is that google ranks PAGES - not size of the website so keeping your website updated with new posts every day really isn’t going to help that much with ranking individual posts.
If you have limited time to spend on your internet business then the bulk of it should be spent on promotion and back linking of your existing pages. Period.
Am I Saying That It’s Bad To Add New Content To Your Website?
Of course not!
The more posts you have, the more opportunities for people to find your blog or website.
It’s great to add as many posts as you can provided you are doing the proper keyword research and on page SEO for each post.
All’s I’m saying is to rank for 1 keyword, then thinking that you have to update your blog with new content every day can derail you from the more important job of promoting your work
Now it goes without saying that its critical that you have fresh posts so that people come back over and over, but one AWESOME post a week or a fortnight, promoted properly, will far outweigh, 4 or 5 posts that have little depth, and offer little value to your customers,
One or two first class posts a week will ensure that you gain a great following, as people look forward to reading what you have written, and will naturally share your material,
This is what will get you to the first pages of the search engines.
Let me know how much content you add weekly, or if you have any additions or arguments to the post
Kindest Regards
Paul
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Thanks for sharing this paul. I was thinking the same thing I'd rather have 1 great quality article than 3-4 average ones. Then again I'm always concerned about not having enough content..Is even once twice a month good enough? Again I'd rather have informative engaging content
If your worried about volume of content, or not enough content, you could always add 3 or 4 articles a week for a few weeks, to fill your site out - and then revisit them to make them great
My only concern would be, if you have average content, is anyone going to read it - and if no one reads it - whats the point?
Thanks for commenting
Paul
Oh, and yes, I do everything in promoting every article that I write regardless of time. In my case there is no, difference between a good quality review and one that I just know out in one day. So I think whether I do one article a week or five, its not so much which one I feel is done better, as each are done as well as I can do any of them...it is which subject has the most interest...which gets it to page one, and then contributes to more traffic and sales. That is what makes the difference I've seen as far as promoting WA.
Quality is something I myself try to instill in all articles...and promotions of them. Spending more or extra time doing this will give me the same result. Because I take whatever time is needed to get the job done. So if I'm concentrating and everything flows. One hour to do it all. If I'm spacing out a bit, two hours, or three. It still ends up being the same quality is all I'm saying. As long as we put the same quality in all our work, all we have to do is find the time to do the work. I'm not the type to put a article out and not promote it, or leave relevant links out, or cheat in that since. I'm only cheating me then! It is why my work is as good as it gets in each.
You may be correct in saying some out there may feel they don't have time and throw some stuff together and then slam down on the publish button! Thats cheating themselves. And there is not much to be said about that. It's on them. LOL
Rick
I disagree with quality over quantity as Kyle has also informed me. as he says Rick you need more articles, and that was a year ago when I was at 100! We get more traffic reaching greater distance and groups by writing more. With using keywords we do not know which articles are even going to rank well. So we have got to keep cranking them out. One good, or excellent article may never make it to page one. So I've had more traffic during the times I've cranked out more articles. I write the best article I can anyway so no matter how fast I do them, I take the time to put everything in and do the research. To me its a matter of how many articles people are seeing, is key.
In my mind I'm doing the best quality article I can as I go, regardless, so I wound't be able to see a difference between a fast one or a quality one. To me they are all the same. Now I may work harder on one longer.
Seems some here woud rather do one quality article over 5 regular aritlces? How about the difference between 100 articles and 10. If the same keywords are used, the 100 articles are going to bring in way more traffic, thus more sales, and even over the long haul they will still make page one if they are going to whether you've spent all week doing one, or you do one per day.
Longer or shorter may make more difference when it comes to traffic as they say some of the longer articles offering more information are seemingly ranked higher than shorter ones.
But then it depends on if you are promoting WA or offering a product or service as well. There is no set way being better than any other. And it is what works best for the indiivdual and the time they have for it, is all.
At this time I have started doing one article per day. Not sure how long I will last, but I've got some free time of late and have been knocking them out, one each day. Traffic has shot up! But I know it is temporary. Traffic for me has always gone up and held high as long as I keep pumping them out. But there has been times I've slacked off and my traffic has fallen right back to about where it was when I first started.
Interesting that we will always have to be pumping out content here to get enough traffic to earn income. I thought years ago I could do this for a time and then stop and have everything kind of run along on auto. Found out the traffic leaves when we do. So we either end up working each day, or we pay the price of not making anything during the times we fail to put out information.
Online work is WORK. And it is why so many sell out later. There is no automated system that continues making money for us here once we walk away. So either we are here and wanting to do it while earning money, or we quit and stop making money here. Simple.
Very interesting you guys.
Rick
I absolutely agree with everything you said. I have 1 question. Do you make any money on the traffic you generate when you do write consistent content?
Hey Rick
Thanks for your detailed response, and great to get a different opinion.
From what I get from your article, you are putting out a volume of articles, generating some traffic to them, and then losing rank.
These are then replaced by newer articles to maintain your traffic.
This is OK, if you can keep churning them out, but I would think its unlikely that you will get an army of followers looking forward to reading your next article. (Of course you can prove me wrong on that line)
My way of thinking (And from experience) is that if you write great content, that really helps people - without trying to sell to them, they subscribe, and follow.
They interact with your site, and share your content - which is favorable with Google, which will then rank your content higher.
Once you have this going, it does not matter, if you tail off from writing new content, as the existing is still being shared, as more and more people know of your site.
With Googles current algorithms, you get ranked higher for site interaction, social connections, and bounce rate.
Add in some good on page SEO, and back-links, once your content, is ranked well it will stay, as long as you keep that post updated and current,
From my point I would rather write one great article a week than 5 or 6 - that is too much like hard work!
Once again Rick, I thank you for your response, and will be good to see others that add to this thread
Regards
Paul
I wish I could write 4 or 5 quality posts a week, but the truth is closer to 1 or 2. Staying active here and promoting what I have written take up more time than writing new posts. Then there is the wife and family, that insist I spend some time away from the computer
Great blog Paul
In my opinion, if you are writing on your own, 1 quality post, is good enough.
Internet Marketing, is about leading an anytime, anywhere lifestyle, and spending time with your family is a big part of that lifestyle.
When you get up one morning the find the plug has been cut off of your PC, you can assume that you have that you have not got the balance quite right!
For me as a small business owner, looking at all of the other things that I do, this will be an impossibility. However I am putting 5 people on writing content and general articles for all of our websites... Including the two new web sites that we have coming online. All of these people have many years writing experience. I think we will do quite well. Time will tell.
If you have full time writers, you should be able to take your content creation and promotion to the next level without doubt,
I have outsourced work writing in the past. I found good writers, but found that I still had to edit a lot to add my own personality to the writing.
Also as business owners, no-one knows the business as well as us,
I wish you well with your new sites, and thank you for commenting
Paul
Being that my website is 19 months old I only publish once per week. I prefer to pace myself and submit quality over quantity and stick to an SEO posting schedule. It has been working great for my SEO and rankings.
Same here Robert - I feel that one quality article, is enough for one person. I know you write great content, which proves the point quality over quantity
Thank you for Sharing this, I believe that quality is the aim here, but the site health is going down due to the low frequency. What do you think please? Should I just ignore the health issue?
I think if you read the comments above that one per week works well.
You say your site health is going down, what do you mean by this .
If you are adding weekly content - great content that people love, you will have 52 awesome articles by this time next year, and over 100 the year after.
You can also make updates, and share older content on the site, in-between times, this is showing Google that you are updating the site regularly.
I would post a question or ask for a critique here on WA, if you are concerned about your site health - myself and others are always here to help
Regards
Paul
Thank you for the great help, I was asking about the frequency, the site health in general is (( pretty good)) but the frequency percentage circle is up when I publish but in the following day it goes down. Why?
Really appreciated.
I can say that you are thinking wisely. I am at about one per week or even less, and it is hard to keep it that way. Jovo
No set rules Jovo, one a week, three a month - great content is the key here.
It can sometimes be hard - especially thinking about what to write about, but planning is key.
Do your keyword research, and decide what to write about the week before, and then write your article, early in the week.
You then have a week to promote - just get a routine going, and try and be consistent.
Hope that helps
Paul
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Couldn't agree more w/ you Paul. Well said. 3 is a long week for me, but it all depends on what your talking about here, research, quality, marketing. Cheers mate,
Todd