Should I publish several blog posts at once or stagger?
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I have several blog posts that I want to publish (40 or so). For freshness is it better to stagger their publication over several months or is it fine to publish them all at the same time. The comments are closed.
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I agree. Most of the articles that I have written have taken at least 8 hours. Some have taken over a week with a photographer/artist helping me with images.
I know that lots of people don't believe that we spend this much time and think that 20 minutes of yada yada text is going to be competitive.
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"It often takes a full 8 hour day or more to write a top quality article. "
Funny you say that. I spent 10 hours today writing one page of kick ass highly relevant content. But I could have written 8 blog posts today with that time. NOPE, I know better. I have Universities link to my content.
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I have several blog posts that I want to publish (40 or so). For freshness is it better to stagger their publication over several months or is it fine to publish them all at the same time.
I would publish them all at once, but I think you are asking the wrong question.
Why do you have 40 blog posts? I am willing to bet the quality of these posts are poor. You may feel the articles are average, above average or even "good", but that is not even close to acceptable in today's world. When you perform a Google search for the keyword focus of most articles, thousands and perhaps millions of results are returned. Your goal is to land on page 1 of those results. You need "best on the web" content.
It often takes a full 8 hour day or more to write a top quality article. These types of articles don't accumulate. In every case a site owner has shared with me they had 40 articles to publish, they were your average 500 word internet articles being cranked out by a team of content writers, and the articles were never going to reach the top of any competitive keyword search.
I am also concerned about closing comments. You are denying your readers to engage the article and offer valuable content and ideas. This frequently happens when the site owner fears what readers might say. I would suggest a different strategy where you feel comfortable receiving comments.
I made a couple intuitive guesses in my response. If I am mistaken, I apologize.
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If your blog posts pull in traffic then sitting on them is like walking away from money.
How much money will it cost you to sit on them. How many likes, tweets, links will it cost?
If not much then publish them.
Even if you post them all simultaneously and you can still promote them individually. (This is one of the problems with a blog... it chronologically posts your content. If you were publishing on webpages they could be indexed and on the site but not brought to the homepage until promotion time.
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Stagger the posts, if you put every thing on at once you are not going to create buzz.
Another thing you can do to get re turn visitors is to have say:
Part 1 of a post to Part 5 then you get re turn visitors and people coming back to your blog for all the parts of the posts.
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I would say absolutely stagger them out. If you have 40 or so blog posts ready to go, that is awesome!
Google loves a freshly updated blog, In fact it might look spammy to Google if you dump 40 blog posts to your site in one day, then dont post anything else for a month or so..
I would push a new post out once every 1-3 days. Between postings really focus on re-editing the content to make it really stand out. Make sure it has relevant pictures, videos, links and is laid out in a easy to read format.
Is there a reason comments are closed on your blog btw? This is a great way to keep your content updated without doing any work.
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