The Balance Between Comments and Articles
Coming from someone with experience, I am here to tell you that you can’t have your cake and eat it to. What I mean by this is that when you first start out, you want loads of blog traffic and comments on every single post. You may have come across blogs that have hundreds of comments on a single post. But those blogs with hundreds of comments have been around for years. Those blogs either collected that amount of comments over many years, or that blog is run by a celebrity or popular person and gets flooded with daily traffic.
As a new blog, you have to consider the following. Consider that if you post an article (or more than one) every single day, you are likely to only get a few comments on that post within the first week. Readers get overloaded with the vast amount of content you have available and they cannot comment on every single one right then and there. The reader may come back on another day to comment on an old article, but then they might end up not commenting on the newest article.
If you were to sacrifice your search engine optimization and traffic rank, you can spread out your blog articles and end up receiving more comments per post. The reason for this is that your articles stay on the homepage for much longer and readers have time to read them.
There is a very fine balance of going after both comments and article-count. The only sure-fire way to get that amount of commentary on daily articles is to actively promote your blog via Google Adwords CPM and other high traffic immediate sources. Another way obviously would be to break some serious news that nobody else reported yet (will the next iPhone whistle-blower please stand up?).
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Twitter: blokube
says:
Hey Brandon,
Nice Post man. I really like the advice on keeping more posts on homepage.
Glen Allsopp from viperchill writes only 4-5 posts a month and his blog get so many comments, retweets etc. Why? because he always write quality long-depth posts. I think quality is more important then quantity.
Anyways, Thanks for sharing this great Post.
Hop you have enjoyed your birthday
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~Dev
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Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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I don’t know what to say Dev. Sometimes I write really long posts, and sometimes short to-the-point ones. But I do write one or more every single day. So I guess I serve quantity, but I like to think that I provide quality too…
Nice Brandon, I personally leave around 7-8 articles on my home page. Talking about long posts, studies show that over 70% of people prefer short articles and they usually skim over articles. In regards to Glen, I think one of the most reasons he gets so many comments is that he is already known from pluginid and he many audience/fans.
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Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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I agree completely. When you already establish an audience, it is easier to get lots of comments on your newest blogs.