When to Post Your Blog

[Gaystoryman]

They say timing is everything, and maybe that is true, but is it true for posting your blog entry? If so, when is that best times, best day even?

An interesting article on just that, with some data to base it on, now only question is, does it apply to porn blogs? :finger:

Read the Article Here (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_study_shows_best_and_worst.php)

[Johnny]

It's late and I'm sleepy, so I may be misreading the article. It states:

"These graphs then measure which times and days see the largest numbers of posts submitted that end up being more popular than other posts in the same feed. So the most wildly popular and discussed items among all popular items at Digg, etc. It's tracking the time that the post is submitted to the news site - not when it was necessarily posted on the blog."

Which, if I'm reading it correctly, is an indication of when the most comments are made to blogs. They said they didn't have the whole methodology for calculating the totals. So, it isn't clear whether it differentiates by the article posted to. Meaning, are people posting comments to that day's article or are they commenting on an article from a previous day's post.

Still, as an indicator of when people are browsing it is certainly very interesting!

Thanks!

[gaydemon]

I was just thinking of this yeasterday. I tried to figure out what times I should put up posts every day. I decided to split them up into 2 parts - US evening time and European evening. Doing that gives a bit of a gab inbetween.

Would love to know what the best time would be. But from just thinking logically I would have thought people surf porn when they get back home and after dinner..

I do wish there was reliable user studies in relation to porn.

[barnkin]

Check you stats and see when you get the best traffic, post a little before peak...IMHO

[gaydemon]

you know thats such a simply but very good idea. I didnt think of that.

But what if the site is always busy no matter what hour. From what i remember at the top of my head gaydemon is fairly steady in amount of visitors 3/4 of the entire day.

Still that is a very good idea.. Thanks!


Check you stats and see when you get the best traffic, post a little before peak...IMHO

[Gaystoryman]

Well, I know I used to have a set schedule of time to post, and traffic was pretty static, however I thought I'd give this study a bit of try.

Did some posts, and scheduled them all for the times this study claimed were more likely for posts to be recognized, and all that jazz. So far, in a very unscientific study, traffic boosts at the normal times still happen, as I think many of my surfers simply were used to it, however, I have noticed a jump or spike of about an added 30% overall.

In checking the logs, it does seem that the bulk of the spike is happening between 10 and 2pm, which is when the new posts are hitting the published status.

That is 'new' traffic btw. So maybe there is something to it, who knows. :rolleyes:

[AnthonyDeAngelo]

we've never been much in favor of statistics and such - we always do our own thing - made movies our own way, created a site our own way and we don't even use a blog program...

as it stands, our blog is the third biggest visited place on our site and its VERY popular

we each post at 7AM pacific - Cam on Wednesdays and me on Saturdays - we've done this for a year now - every week - no matter where we are -

I suppose its working so I'm not willing to shake things up....

[Gaystoryman]

So in a very unscientific study I did, my results are rather mixed.

On a blog where I have been posting at one particular time for over a year and a half, I changed to posting between 11am and 1pm. I didn't get any drop in traffic, and did see an increase in traffic by about 30%.

On a ecommerce blog I have had for just over a year, I added a post at those times, maintaining the same schedule as well. Basically I added a new post in the time slot. Again, traffic increased but sales did not.

On a second ecommerce site, I switched the posting from the regular schedule to the new schedule. Traffic again increased, but sales rose by about 15% as well.

Finally, the real downside, on all blogs where I added or switched the schedule to the new one, my level of spam increased but not by 30%, but by nearly 80% over the normal rate I have been experiencing.

One other little note, on the blog where I kept the schedule, and added a new post at the new time slot, I found that those subscribing to the feed, increased by nearly 45%.

Spider traffic remained relatively constant btw. Small spikes upwards, but nothing to write home to mother about.

So all in all, I think I'll simply stick with what my surfers / customers are used to. I'll do random added posts, at those times, because I do like increased traffic.

[RDude_BarebackMasters]

This is a good question. I try to be consistent with updating my blogs at the same times. I'm usually close. All I know is that the traffic is much larger for me on the weekends. That's probably a given I guess though.

Food for thought. Maybe I'll try some strategies myself.

[Messire Loup]

I don't believe there's any magical formula.

I'm having a little over a thousand readers a day from all over the world. There's simply no way I can post at the right time for everyone. It would be even harder for those sites that get 10s of thousands readers per day.

Therefore, I post when I feel like it, usually late evening when the drudgeries of daily life have finally gone to bed :)

At times I haven't posted for several days; my readers were still there, waiting. I just treat them as friends: I try to accommodate them, but they must understand I cannot be at their beck and call.

Works for me, so far...