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2:02 pm
May 20, 2012
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Lena Gott
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I read recently that Facebook gets the most traffic during lunch hours and Saturday morning. But I write most of my posts late at night on the weekends. So, should I wait to promote my posts at more opportune times? What would you advise?
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4:44 pm
May 20, 2012
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FI Fighter
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Focus on the content, and the traffic will follow, naturally. Well, that's how I'm approaching it anyway  I wouldn't worry so much about trying to time the post. Write when and where you feel most relaxed, comfortable, and productive. With finance especially, and anything with global appeal, it really shouldn't matter.
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9:04 pm
May 20, 2012
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Lena Gott
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12:06 pm
May 22, 2012
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seedebtrun
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I would post your best original content, Monday – Thursday, scheduled to post between 6am-9am.
You'll catch folks reading blogs during breakfast, and when they get into work.
Readership is pretty light on the weekends for most folks, and because of that you'll see lots of sponsored and "fluff" posts on the weekends.
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3:59 am
May 23, 2012
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Lena Gott
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Thanks, SeeDebtRun! (is this Michelle or Jeff). That's exactly what I needed to know. I was originally thinking of promoting (Facebook, Twitter, etc) at peak times, but I forgot about timing the actual post. I'll try that.
Come to think of it, I found M-W to be my best page view days on Suite101. Monday was always high, Tuesday lower, I almost always saw a spike on Wednesday. Thursdays and Tuesdays were fairly equivalent, with a dip on Friday. The occasional Friday would have unusually high page views, especially around holidays when I had a good amount of content for the upcoming one. Saturdays and Sundays were always low page view days.
Thanks for reminding me of this…I need to start applying more of what I learned back then to my personal blogs. Sometimes I forget this is all the same game.
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5:56 am
May 23, 2012
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MoneyBeagle
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seedebtrun said:
I would post your best original content, Monday – Thursday, scheduled to post between 6am-9am.
You'll catch folks reading blogs during breakfast, and when they get into work.
Readership is pretty light on the weekends for most folks, and because of that you'll see lots of sponsored and "fluff" posts on the weekends.
I agree. I rarely post anything at all on the weekends as my traffic pretty well stayed the same regardless of whether there was a post or not.
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6:21 am
May 23, 2012
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Finance Fox.ca
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I find that posting my articles Mon-Thu is the best for quality articles.
Filler articles I usually leave for Fri-Sun.
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5:07 pm
May 23, 2012
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Daisy
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Content is king, yes, but if you publish at inopportune times then it will be harder to read, so your right for looking into it – I schedule posts for 3:00 am or somewhere around there, because I know the timezones differ so it's about 6am lots of other places. I read posts in the morning and the newest ones show up on my feed at the top so I usually start with those.
I find my traffic spikes on Mon-Wed, and is slowest on Saturdays.
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11:20 am
May 24, 2012
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KyleAAA
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I don't think it matters when you publish. As far as promoting, you might want to send out a tweet or something like that in the morning, but I don't that matters all that much either. Your best resources for getting quality (read profitable) traffic are going to be links from other (larger) blogs anyway, not promotion on social media or anything like that. Doesn't really matter what time of day it is when you're networking.
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10:35 am
May 25, 2012
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moneysmarts
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As far as when you publish, I wouldn't worry about it too much.. My best traffic days are usually early in the week though..
As far as promoting on Twitter and Facebook, it doesn't hurt to do a bit of research and find the optimal times to promote your content via those sources. I use the site bufferapp.com to schedule tweets and facebook posts during optimal times.
I wrote a post around FINCON11 time last year about how I use twitter to promote my content:
http://www.biblemoneymatters.c…..-bloggers/
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