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Over the last month give or take I have been running a test for this blog to determine what kind of traffic and visitors I would receive if I put the least amount of effort into running my blog.
I did 11 posts over the past 30 days, just about averaging 1 post every 3 days for the non-math majors. Along with minimal posts, I quit buying Entrecard ads or promoting in any other way. I noticed a little down tick in traffic and comments as fewer posts are appearing but has been pretty consistent since, with about 330 unique visits per day and 600ish page views.
If you notice that little up tick towards the end of the chart, that was a result of my last post with the help of a Wordpress plugin called Auto Social Poster (not an affiliate link). What you can do is have you post submitted to various different bookmarking sites at the time of posting. The plugin isn’t free, but I would highly recommend it if you are running a Wordpress Blog.
I found that instead of posting and promoting, I can focus more on posting and know that promotion is being done. I will now run another experiment here to determine whether posting daily versus every three days with the aid of ASP will result in more traffic. I will continue to not buy any ads on Entrecard in order to preserve the experiment. Instead, I will be giving away all of the credits I accumulate to this month’s the top commenter (horse race can be viewed to the right the side bar —-> ).
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The auto social poster plug-in sounds like one I should seriously consider…signed up for the newsletter too
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@Chelle, thanks for the newsletter add. I will love to give you some pointers on ASP.
Great job Josh testing out different posting strategies!
I have actually been wanting to try posting more often however my schedule has only allowed for me to post once every 3 days or so lately. I also launched a 2nd blog so I am actually writing a post per day but splitting the time between both blogs.
Right now I’d just like to get the number of visitors and readers up on both blogs…
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Looking forward for the result of your experiment. Some say that posting daily will do good.
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About entrecard, I prefer drop card to different blogs than advertise.
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yeah I am looking forward too.
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