Comments on: Blog Coaching: Less posts… More Substance.

By: Robert Worthington

Robert Worthington — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:42:30 +0000

Eric, If I can post less with more substance, I will be out selling more real estate, which is perfect! See you tomorrow at 6am

By: James Wheelock

James Wheelock — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:06:24 +0000

Eric,

Sorry this is a little off topic, but I would like to commend you on your seemingly(not to devalue or suggest it is fake just don’t know you) authentic way you go about cultivating relationships.

By: Eric Blackwell

Eric Blackwell — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:17:16 +0000

Hi Maryann-

Thanks and good to meet you! I don’t know about more knowledgeable…(grin) I just get paid to stay up to date on it for others .

Feel free to send me an example of some stuff that you’ve written…let’s share ideas! I am sure you have some that I have not thought of as well!

Eric

By: Maryann Miller

Maryann Miller — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:06:14 +0000

Great information. It seems like just when I get the hang of one aspect of effective blogging, something new comes along. Thanks to you and others more knowledgeable, I can be an old dog learning a new trick.

By: Eric Blackwell

Eric Blackwell — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:27:09 +0000

OK, I popped some examples up. Let me know what you think. My point was not that posting often is bad on its face, but more that less posts, but better thought out ones will generate more readership, links, and thus ROI on your investment SEO wise.

The other point is that the posts I have used as examples, the people involve ROCK at promoting their posts and they treat each quality post as it’s own mini book tour…more on that later,

Best

Eric

By: Eric Blackwell

Eric Blackwell — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:45:01 +0000

Hey Susan!

Yeah. I was a little nervous about putting a video of myself out there…hehe. I got busy last night, so I am finishing it up tonight! Coming up soon.

Glad to see you here!

By: Susan Zanzonico

Susan Zanzonico — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:13:38 +0000

I will be watching for the next post about “good stuff”. I too thought that posting often with fresh content for google was beneficial, but I am continually learning…or is it continually changing?

I enjoyed watching your SEO YouTube by the way. Now I feel like I know you a little better.

By: Eric Blackwell

Eric Blackwell — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:04:54 +0000

Louis- GREAT question. The answer IMO is that in blogging there is less benefit than you might think. For example, I have sites that syndicate the RSS feed from this blog. Only the top 3 or 5 or 10 posts garner links from that.

In that example, slowing the roll of the posts actually stengthens things to some degree.

If I am constantly throwing links out on Twitter about this listing and that, then noone pays any attention when I throw something of substance out. Kind of like crying wolf too often.

Google indexed this blog post in a matter of minutes (less than 20). The main value of “fresh content” used to be that it would get the spiders to your site faster. Now with RSS feeds and other tools, fresh content is less important IMO.

Good topic for an upcoming post. Thanks for that.

@Mike- When I get home tonight, I will put together another post with some examples of what I think are great content and why. I have some in mind….(grin)

Eric

By: Louis Cammarosano

Louis Cammarosano — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:54:12 +0000

Is there any benefit however, to posting often for google to find “fresh content”?

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:45:18 +0000

As always, great post EB.

Can you give some examples of the “Good Stuff”