Blogging Basics - Writing Often and Dirty Increases Traffic
Posted by Karen Rubin on Tue, May 12, 2009 @ 10:23 AM
In addition to keeping up with Karen-Rubin.com, I also have a cooking blog where I keep my friends and family updated on my exploits in the kitchen. I was checking out the traffic on Gormandizing.com today and I saw some interesting things.
These might both be super obvious observations to an experienced blogger, but I am relatively new to the game and seeing my expectations play out is fantastic.
First, when you write sensationalist titles you get more traffic! You can see from the annotated chart below that my two posts titled "Chocolate Peanut Butter Orgasms" and "This is Why You Are Fat" were posted in the same week which was also the highest traffic week in the last 5 months.
Second, if you don't write any blog posts, your traffic drops off very quickly. You can see that in the last 5 weeks, since I launched Karen-Rubin.com I have only written 3 blog posts. In that same timeframe my traffic has dropped from 90 unique visitors per week to just 6 visitors for the last 3 weeks!
If you are writing a blog for work or fun, think about eye catching titles and make sure you are writing regularly. (By eye catching, I mean include sex terms as often as possible. By regular, I mean at least once per week if not more frequently.)