{"id":82,"date":"2006-08-29T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T12:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/82\/posting-your-blogs-for-maximum-internet-marketing-effectiveness\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T00:09:48","slug":"posting-your-blogs-for-maximum-internet-marketing-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/posting-your-blogs-for-maximum-internet-marketing-effectiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Posting your Blogs for Maximum Internet Marketing Effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deciding <\/strong><strong>when to put a blog post<\/strong> is a factor often overlooked by some bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>The time at which you post can have a great impact on your readership.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think I&#8217;m <em>crazy<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at your web stats.<\/p>\n<p>Awstats is a good tool for web analytics (I&#8217;ll go into this in a future post).<\/p>\n<p>By auditing your traffic patterns, you can first triangulate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The core country for most of your readers (homeground)<\/li>\n<li>How long they stay at your site (stickiness)<\/li>\n<li>Which posts are they look at (content concentration)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your core audience is from the US, you would want to take note of daylight hours in the US.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><u><strong>Business Blogs<\/strong> <\/u><\/p>\n<p>Depending on the traffic pattern, you might like to post at the start of the day (useful if you have business-related or Internet Marketing information) because profit-oriented bloggers wil be scanning your blog during work hours.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Leisure Blogs<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>What if you&#8217;re one of those bloggers who posts bikini babes, Japanese Race Queens and Girls Gone Wild type pictures and videos?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely your core audience will be reading your blog after they get home. Maybe after dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Posting at between 5pm and 8pm could be your blog prime time (and pull your core audience from the idiot box).<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#wide--><\/p>\n<p><u><strong>The Impact<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>If your core audience is caught at their optimal time, you will see a higher conversion rate in both your Adsense and Affiliate Marketing income.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d want people clicking on your ads when they&#8217;re fully awake and most response to sales letters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doing updates at 2am is tantamount to <\/strong><strong>blog suicide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unless you&#8217;re targeting insomniacs, <\/strong>in which case, keep it up!<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t count on me to read it.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Capturing two Continents<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>What if your core audience is split across two continents, such as the US and Asia?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple process to devise two blog posts per day, one targeting the optimum period for each continent.<\/p>\n<p>For business content, maybe put up your posts at 8am at GMT+8 to capture Asian traffic and 8am at PST for the US market.<\/p>\n<p>For leisure content, make the adjustments to off-work hours accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>By strategically planning your posting schedule, you extract maximum value for your content.<\/p>\n<p>If necessary, use post scheduling to help you achieve optimal effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s interest, I&#8217;ll go into the areas which will severely bring down the credibility of your blog. Sad to say, but <strong>more than 50% of bloggers are guilty of this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Questions? Comments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding when to put a blog post is a factor often overlooked by some bloggers. The time at which you post can have a great impact on your readership. Do you think I&#8217;m crazy? Take a look at your web stats. Awstats is a good tool for web analytics (I&#8217;ll go into this in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,29,24,22],"tags":[1769,1767,1766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}