Interesting reasoning. From my 1 month of experimenting StumbleUpon, I did find out a few trend that will lead to a sudden traffic spike and time was one of the factor.
Posting and getting stumbled on an article at different time give me huge differences in the traffic. My guess would be with the time difference between countries. You sure are pretty observant danny.
I think the growing popularity of Stumbleupon has definitely made a difference to the way traffic is looked at. Although you still need to make sure the content is interesting enough to hold a visitor's interest, and use other methods of promotion where necessary, SU and its passive traffic stream mean that trying to work out prime posting days is less of a problem.
Thanks for reading and commenting, appreciate it.
The Lovable Rogue
· 1 year ago
Danny, just to confirm, I am currently reading your blog tomorrow! Sort of! The tools currently available negate the need for optimal posting in my opinion. Feeds etc allow interested readers to follow the blog at their own pace. Whilst views may not be immediate, if the post connects with the reader at a suitable level then it will be picked up sooner or later. I personally think it all relates back to visibility. Once you have achieved appopriate levels of visibility, the need to post at specific times is overcome.
That's a very valid point - while optimal days for new bloggers may be workable and a good recommendation, to help offer a better chance at building a readership, visibility is the most important tool.
Look at some of the top bloggers - posting at all times of the day and week and still enjoying high levels of traffic and readers. As you say, readers can use feeds or email subscriptions to read blogs at their leisure.
In this respect, it isn't too different from saving emails until the end of the day to read properly - if the hook is interesting enough, the content will be read.
Thanks for sharing your views.
Kimmie
· 1 year ago
I think with me it is about the time of day and when you do compare days, Thursday isn't a huge day for my but Mon - Wed is pretty strong. This weekend I had strong numbers which I found interesting. Although I do my posts in advance, I find that having them ready between the hours of 8 - 10 (depending on whether I have multiple posts that day), I have a huge surge. If I do another segment because something caught my eye, I love to add it in around 3 or 4 right when that midday slump hits. I definitely think that time has something to do with it and the days factor less for me as my blog covers a certain kind of content on Mon versus on Wed or Thurs - which keeps things interesting for the reader.
That's a very good point you make there, Kimmie, and something I agree with - that it's dependent on the blog topic, niche and readers. For instance, your lifestyle blog as you mention will normally have more traffic on a Mon-Wed - I guess that's people visiting to catch up on any celeb gossip or similar.
The main thing is blog owners will know when they start to develop a pattern for their traffic, and that could be down to a whole host of things, taking away the reasoning behind one single great day for blogging.
Thanks for reading and sharing your views, appreciate it. :)
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Posting and getting stumbled on an article at different time give me huge differences in the traffic. My guess would be with the time difference between countries. You sure are pretty observant danny.
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I think the growing popularity of Stumbleupon has definitely made a difference to the way traffic is looked at. Although you still need to make sure the content is interesting enough to hold a visitor's interest, and use other methods of promotion where necessary, SU and its passive traffic stream mean that trying to work out prime posting days is less of a problem.
Thanks for reading and commenting, appreciate it.
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That's a very valid point - while optimal days for new bloggers may be workable and a good recommendation, to help offer a better chance at building a readership, visibility is the most important tool.
Look at some of the top bloggers - posting at all times of the day and week and still enjoying high levels of traffic and readers. As you say, readers can use feeds or email subscriptions to read blogs at their leisure.
In this respect, it isn't too different from saving emails until the end of the day to read properly - if the hook is interesting enough, the content will be read.
Thanks for sharing your views.
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The main thing is blog owners will know when they start to develop a pattern for their traffic, and that could be down to a whole host of things, taking away the reasoning behind one single great day for blogging.
Thanks for reading and sharing your views, appreciate it. :)