Hi Folks,

Someone asked “How many times should I update my blog with content?”

It all depends on what kind of blog you have, is the first part of the answer.

Things to consider

1. Is my blog created to rank well in the search engines and once people see it all I want them to do is click on my affiliate links?

If this is so, I have blogs like this and adding fresh content once a week helps hold my rankings. But the rankings have a lot to do with incoming links and a few other factors we’re not getting into today. (I’ll post about getting good rankings soon if you want and I’ll even show some examples.)

Fast note on the article being added once a week, the title of that article is based on a long tail keyword. A long tail keyword is a keyword or phrase that gets low searches a month and has little or no competition in the search engines. You can read more about keyword research here.

2. Is my blog for human eyes? Am I posting content helping, entertaining or educating my readers?
Posting to your blog two to three times a week should work.

If your blog is in the internet marketing niche, you’ll want to post often but not for the sake of “posting” because crappy content is not going to cut it, they’ll know and will not appreciate it.

I used internet marketing as an example because that’s a fast moving rapid niche we’re people devour content at lightning speeds. But golf, weight loss and dating are just a few more niches that have fast moving content seekers hungry for answers.

At the end of the day, it’s your call but know this, search engines and people love fresh, useful updated content. How much is something you’re going to have to play with based on your situation.