How frequently do I need to write a blog post

Many bloggers think that they need to write a blog post or more every day. And this is true to some extent. It basically depends on the type of traffic that your website or blog gets. The above holds good if your visitors or reader are mainly from your email subscribers who have subscribed to your to get updates via email to their inbox. Also, your every day traffic might also come from the RSS feed that you use in your website, those who have subscribed to your RSS feed. In short, these are returning visitors.

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Same is the case with social media. When you write a blog post and is shared on any of the social media, you get traffic when there is a new blog post published as it will appear in everyone's Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus news feed. If you don't share any post then obviously your website traffic from social media will be low.

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But, even if you don't write any blog posts for few days or weeks, you can still get descent amount of traffic, even though you traffic from email or RSS subscribers may come down. Provided, your blog posts/ web pages are indexed by Google or other search engines. You can continue to get traffic from search engine results. In short, the organic traffic.

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Let me give a simple example. I did not write any blog post for the past almost 20 days, but my traffic wasn't very low either. It did not increase, definitely it went down but not that bad. The reason is - most of the traffic that I get is from Google search engine and organic traffic. Which means, the traffic that I got were from my indexed web pages. This wouldn't have been the case if I were to have more traffic from subscribers or from social media. Also, note that this doesn't mean that subscribers and social media is not important.

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So, in order to gain traffic even when you do not write a blog post is to share some of your old articles on social media, see that your webpages are indexed by Google search results by keeping an eye on Google Analytic report and reply to some of the comments and engage more on social media. Writing a blog post every day may not be possible for all of them as I have heard many complaining that they don't get idea or topic to write. You don't need to write blog post frequently, if you have more traffic from search engine, but if it's more from social media or from your subscribers then you might want to consider writing post everyday. Also, it depends on the topic that you write.

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