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Poll: Which matters most to a profitable blog – Quantity or Quality?

My Answer:

I believe that both are important. Don’t just publish a crap post to get traffic, but not all posts have to be perfect either. Also the more you post the more traffic you will get. Look at all the big dogs like techcrunch you can expect 10+ posts per day from them.

I’ve written quite a few google trends targeted blog posts, I usually do these more as an exploration exercise than anything else. In otherwords, I am experimenting with ways to use google trends to increase search engine traffic.

My results are pretty astounding. My number 1 source of traffic was Twitter, and now it’s Google. My traffic shot up from less than 100 hits per day to an average of 1,000+ (on days that I blog).

My formula is this: My goal and guideline is to write 40% good high quality articles(not necessarily a pillar article, but informative nonetheless), 20% affiliate articles to pay the bills, 25% Targeted at Google trends, and 15% for top notch pillar articles which I try to get dugg / stumbled.

This strategy is working pretty well for me – but I am very interested in your opinions. What are your posting tactics?

Lets have a discussion!

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