Weekend traffic is worthless to many bloggers?
Many bloggers had employed so called “speedlinking” during the weekends. Speedlinking is a process of posting many links, asking your blog readers to read them during the weekend, until you start blogging normally on monday. Basically it’s sending all the readers away from your blog during the weekends.
While it’s good to refer your readers to other blogs’ interesting articles. I believe it’s not good to not post any posts during the weekends. Sure you get lesser traffic during the weekends but, is that the only thing you are after? Traffic!?
If the answer is “yes”, then you probably blogging purely for money reasons. There is nothing wrong with blogging for money. Please do not get me wrong. I blog for money too. But what I am trying to get here is that, bloggers should not be just money oriented, it shouldn’t be like this:
- Huge traffic, okay blog. Talk about some service, put affiliate links inside your post. People subscribe, you make money. Later, you blog about how much you earned, and more people will subscribe for the program again.
Here, except the blogger himself/herself, nobody else (maybe few other members) benefit from the post. Only the blogger gets paid, but the readers are duped into believing that they too can make money.
Again, it’s okay to refer people to affiliate programs. And it’s okay to make money from your blogs. But try to strike a balance in between. Post some quality posts, posts that can really
I believe, keeping your posting frequency steady, regardless of what day of the week it is, will only benefit you and your blog in the long run. Also if you are a full-time blogger, shouldn’t it be no different whether it’s weekend of weekday for you? After all, you are at home every day 24/7 ;). So, why not post as usual?
Moreover, if any of your regular readers are not reading your blog during weekends. They will have plenty of great articles to read during weekdays. You should not forget that regular readers, will still read all your previous articles. For them, it does not matter if you post during weekends, what matters for them is the quality of your posts.
Last word
This post doesn’t suggest that you should stop speedlinking. Rather it suggests that, besides speedlinking during weekends, you should still keep posting great articles.
What do you think?
I would like to hear your opinions on this, as a blogger (if you have blog) and as a reader too. What do you think, should blogs have a business hours (i don’t mean real biz hours, you get the idea right?) during weekdays and have a break during the weekends?
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By chipseo on Oct 31, 2007
I changed my timing up a bit because I noticed that the schedule you noted above is pretty much what everyone was doing. I now do a link post on Monday’s. I figure everyone is just getting back to work and has a pile of stuff to do and it probably wouldn’t be my best post time.
The weekends I do still try to post, and I try to make it a high quality post, but I will generally post an offtopic post over the weekend if I have something in mind, but I have tried to do some quality posts, other than a speedlinking post. Scott
By Jennifer on Oct 31, 2007
I actually have quite the opposite going on at my site with it being a personal site maybe so many aren’t viewing it at work. Not sure, but my traffic on weekends is usually up compared to weekdays with Wednesday being the exception. Wednesday’s are generally my biggest traffic day, but Sunday and Saturday right behind. It is strange…
By xbrain on Oct 31, 2007
i don’t have that decreasing in visitors volume on weekend.
strongly agree with you that blogging because you love to blog not because of money oriented.
that will differentiate between true blogger and blog for profit blogger.
By hafreze on Oct 31, 2007
yeah ades, what you are saying is right. even how mane post that you wrote, I’m still look back at the previous post. But till now, I’m still failing to increase my blog readers. around 250-300 per day is not enough for me, I want to be something like you, johntp and other probloggers that receiving enormous amout of visitors.yet, I’m still doing trial and error..
By Wayne Liew on Oct 31, 2007
I don’t have a choice to choose from. I spend more time on blogging during weekdays. Although the traffic of my blog will fall a little than weekdays, I still try my best to publish the best articles for my readers.
By Nick Ramsay on Oct 31, 2007
I’m the same as Wayne. I spend more time on the internet during the weekends because I have free time. I can’t understand why traffic levels are so high on weekdays when people should be at work. Since most of my traffic is from the U.S, should I assume that Americans just sit at their desks all day and surf the net?
By Ades on Nov 1, 2007
Jennifer, I think yours is a unique case. I guess your readers enjoy reading blogs during the weekends, probably because they have more free time during weekends.
- hafreze, keep up the good work. You shouldn’t be discouraged by the slower progress. Sometimes it just takes longer, you just have to be persistent in delivering good posts.
- Nick, I think it’s true to many countries. I remember in my last work, people used to surf the net and chat on IM the whole day. Even they used to stay behind to get some over time on that, and the next day managers used to praise them. Because he thought they were working very hard.