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8:30 am
September 24, 2011
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Financial Samurai
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Morning Folks,
In my hung over state this morning, I published a post today (9/24/11) with a date of around 04/23/11 by mistake. When I realized this error, I went back and changed the date so the post now shows up on my front page. My link structure is with dates embedded.
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1) Will my post show up in the latest RSS feed, or will it have been embedded in a 04/23/11 feed, which therefore nobody will see since I pressed publish and then had to correct?
2) Is there a way for the RSS feed to be delivered at randomly different times? I notice when I schedule publish (usually around 1am-3am), the post comes out then in RSS. However, my e-mail RSS comes out around 12-24 hours later. Why the discrepancy?
3) What times do you think are the best times to schedule posts in the day? I just did 1am for a while b/c I like to wake up at 6am and see comments to respond to. But 1am is also a risk b/c I could wake up and see a mistake.
Share your thoughts!
Thx,
Sam
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Sam
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8:41 am
September 24, 2011
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krantcents
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I generally publish just after midnight. My reasoning is there are multiple time zones (hopefully) reading my post and I want it available as early as possible. You risk having mistakes out there no matter what time you publish. I like the consistency of a certain time or you may like to publish at different times to reach different people. I think your audience gets used to your days and times which probably trumps our wishes to some extent anyway. I hope that helps.
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9:58 am
September 24, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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krantcents said:
I generally publish just after midnight. My reasoning is there are multiple time zones (hopefully) reading my post and I want it available as early as possible. You risk having mistakes out there no matter what time you publish. I like the consistency of a certain time or you may like to publish at different times to reach different people. I think your audience gets used to your days and times which probably trumps our wishes to some extent anyway. I hope that helps.
I like publishing near 6 am in the morning, before the morning rush. I also like to publish at the same time (approximately), that way my readers know what to expect.
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6:38 am
September 26, 2011
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Jason@LiveRealNow
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Financial Samurai said:
2) Is there a way for the RSS feed to be delivered at randomly different times? I notice when I schedule publish (usually around 1am-3am), the post comes out then in RSS. However, my e-mail RSS comes out around 12-24 hours later. Why the discrepancy?
Once your post hits your RSS feed, the email RSS service throws in into its queue. When your turn comes up, every subscriber in your list is queued to get an email. It's not a giant BCC, but a series of emails sent in turn. Most services send emails at about 1 per second.
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7:21 am
September 26, 2011
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MoneyBeagle
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I usually write my posts in advance and generally publish in the same time window (between 6-7 AM) each day. I'm not sure if time of day impacts traffic but that seems to work for me.
What happened in your case, Sam, I believe would the equivilent to backdating a post. I think your RSS subscribers would still get the post in their feed as it's detected as a new post. You might just show at the bottom in readers where the posts are shown in date order from newest to oldest.
Hope you had fun, having been hung over and all :)
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8:15 am
September 26, 2011
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Financial Samurai
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Thanks for addressing Q one Jason/MB. I'm always curious about these types of things even though they don't mean that much.
I'm assuming the post showed waaaaay back at the bottom, since it was accidentally 5 months early.
thx
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Sam
Financial Samurai - Helping you achieve financial freedom sooner, rather than later.
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10:55 am
September 26, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I like posting around 6:00am Eastern when I get the posts done early to make sure I get everyone's AM RSS reading.
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3:31 pm
September 26, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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I always publish early around 2am or so, at least that is what WP tells me, so that people can get my post before the morning rush. I used to post later in the day and this seems to work better than that.
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2:43 am
September 27, 2011
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I think it's important to publish consistently at the same time, this is what I think and far from what I do…I usually publish mid afternoon, EST.
I have found that articles posted to Facebook get the most attention at 11am and 4pm. I think these are times when a lot of people check in. My early morning FB posts get lost in the rush.
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6:59 am
September 27, 2011
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I always post at 5:00 a.m. for both of my sites.
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