03.27.06
9AM Friday: The Best Time To Blog
People will often talk of the best time of day to make a trade on the market. It’s not very often though that you will hear of someone speak of the best time of day to publish your blog.
As I have said many times, AdSense is a numbers game. This being said, you always want to optomize your blog so that it will reach the most readers possible. After analyzing the logs of the 200,000+ unique visitors this site has received over the past few months, I have began to notice an interesting pattern; one which I follow myself.
We all (or most of us anyway) get up around 7AM on a normal work-day, and head into the office around 8:30. We then will grab a coffee, check & reply email and prioritize our tasks for the rest of the day. Being the computerish-type that we are, we will then slack off a bit and check some of our favorite news sites or blogs. This happens intermittently throughout most of the morning until mid-afternoon when we start to push a little harder before the end of the day.
Wednesdays and Thursdays are usually days that we work a bit harder, and Fridays, well Fridays are a different story. Sound too familiar? Well, it does to me.
CyberWyre visits, broken down by hour of the day
As you can see from the chart above, activity spikes around 10AM and remains solid through the morning and into the mid-afternoon, reaching a low-point around 5pm, when everyone is busy rushing home. Traffic regains some momentum after dinner hour, and peaks at 8pm.
CyberWyre visits broken down by day of week
For most of us, Fridays are a much more relaxed day and people generally feel more free to surf the web at work and catch up on the news and blogs that they missed throughout the previous week. For these reasons, we can see that if there is an important article that you have been holding back on releasing, posting it on Friday morning at 9AM should reach the most readers out of the entire week.
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See this numbers game is contrary to what most big name bloggers say. I went by what they said initially find a niche. Now I say screw it. I am tossing out a big net and seeing how many fish I can catch. I mean when the big name bloggers say find a small niche and stick to it and then they themselves have 100 blogs its a little hypocritical.
Shane,
They are right about finding a niche. I have also written about this in my “Starting Your Blog” series. Just as people diversify their investment portfolio, big name bloggers also diversify their audience. The individual sites stick to a very specific niche and don’t deviate from it – just as on CyberWyre, I only write about how to make money and not about basketball or anything else not related. This doesn’t limit me from starting a separate blog only about basketball though…
This is not valabile in my case.I comed to conclusion that in weekend people want to relax, and go out, or with frineds, but in rest of the week they are at work, and most of them acces internet from work.
You are right about having seperate blogs however I feel some people are saying one thing in the blogosphere and doing something else entirely. Take for instance some big name blogger is telling you to write orginal content and then you visit their other blogs and they have a sentence a pargraph and a link somewhere else. The only thing original is the first sentence. So its hypocritical, having said that I tried for about a year asking for links from other blogs politely and I wrote original content back then. I make about 20 cents a day. Then I switched gears and did what some of the hypocritical bloggers did and it junped to 1 dollar a day in about a month.
So what it boiled down to is that writing original content got me knowwhere and posting a load of unoriginal content did get me somewhere. It is still definitely not an income I can live on yet, however its a numbers game. So it will be in the future.
I have plans to do what some big name bloggers do, I am going to make a site that is huge with about 10000 posts, have them indexed by google. Once I make an income that will sustain me. I will create a blog network, pay some really good writers and then live happily ever after.
I make it sound easy but I know it will be work. By the way the net I threw out is working like a charm thus far. Since I have now bookmarked this site and will be back from time to time (like everday). I will let your readers know how it is going.
I like this blog on making money because there is no bs here and your readers are getting the truth not some hyped up infomercial.
A friend just sent me your link. Thanks for the helpful information.
Well i dont really block, but have a personal website.
How can i make it more interesting for people to go t my website ???
Patrick,
I took a look at your website, and it is all about yourself. Trying not to sound harsh, but why would anyone want to read about your life?
You have to pick a topic that many people will relate to. CyberWyre for example, has information on making money. Who wouldn’t want to know how to make more money?
Find something that you find very interesting, other than yourself, and write about it.
I’ve noticed similar trends. I assume your times are Eastern Time? around 10 or 11, people across the US and Canada are at work, ready to click.
Yup — Eastern. I would imagine that there will be similar trends no matter what zone you are in.
great tips….U will be as famous as Darren Rowse someday