I’ve been busy to with the move and all. We’re still unpacking boxes and I’m still wondering where stuff is.

Keep working the long tails and it will build over time. It took about 2 months to build up the site I mentioned in the article from 10 a day to 300 a day. Hopefully that will continue to build as I add to it and target new phrases.

Nice article. I like the part about reinforcing the long-tail searches. I’ve been ignoring all of my blogs a bit lately … but I’m working this weekend to kickstart my Candle and Wii sites. They both still get regular SE traffic, so I’ll try to use some of the advice you’ve given here.

Thanks,
Todd

The post frequency depends a lot on the type of blog you’re running. For a social blog it’s best to post daily in order to build a steady readership and then taper off later if you want. For a niche blog, it’s good to get a lot of search engine fodder published quickly at first and then slow your pace to a low frequency maintenance schedule.

No, not Portuguese. I’m of English descent, Yorkshire to be specific, although most of my family tree has lived in America since the 1700’s.

Nice and well explain post.

I`ve a question. We all talk about make a post a day. But who is right? Make a post a week with GOOD content, or make a post a day with a … content?

PS: are you portuguese descendent?

Artur,

Of course, I got many of these ideas from your posts and applied them. The long tail reinforcing and internal linking have worked really well for me.

One example would be Random Posts plugin I use here as well as on niche blogs that have over about 50 posts. This gives a new set of 5 links each time a visitor, including Googlebot, views a page.

You can also use an AdRotator plugin or other such widget to insert random text and link snippets at the end or start of posts beyond just plain advertisements.

I’ve been experimenting with these techniques and they seem to work to some extent but I haven’t done a full blown analysis of them yet.

The important thing is keeping a written record to track your blogs. This is a small scale version of how I do things in software development although there I would use tools like Microsoft Project and a source control system as well.

On the graphics, I like these early to mid 20th century vintage advertising and magazine graphics from time to time because they’re different from the usual Flickr photos.

This one had legit contact info in it, not a junk email address like abcxyz-at-gmail.com, and the site didn’t appear spammy either so I let it slide even though it was probably an auto generated comment. However, since it would have appeared in my top commentators slot as a followed link, I changed the URL it had to something else.

“and certain Wordpress plugins can give the illusion of an updated page even if the main content is static.”

I wasn’t sure what exactly you were referring to. You may have included trackbacks under this same area, since they look like comments. I generally leave them when they show up, though sometimes they are from spammers…let’s just say the “comment” they leave may not exactly be what gets displayed.