In episode #776, Eric and Neil discuss why blogging too often may hurt your rankings. Tune in to hear why you should consider blogging less.

TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:

• [00:27] Today’s Topic: Why Blogging Too Often Will Hurt Your Rankings
• [00:45] A site has “x” amount of authority.
• [01:05] You’ll find that if you start blogging more over time, a lot of your content will become outdated.
• [01:32] Old pages will drop in rankings, but eventually your whole site will suffer because of outdated posts.
• [02:20] Refer to the Content Reusage Framework.
• [02:22] A VC named Tomasz Tonguz did a study on the value of temporal content vs. evergreen content.
• [02:47] The difference between a news site and an evergreen site is that your rankings will spike from time to time, whereas evergreen content stacks in rankings over time.
• [03:25] Focus on writing better content, which will help your rankings.
• [03:45] The majority of your posts will not generate much traffic.
• [03:55] 20% of your content will make up 70% of your traffic.
• [04:13] Go to SEMRush or Ahrefs and look at what is popular on your competitors’ sites.
• [04:30] BuzzSumo will also show you what people love.
• [05:02] Follow the data.
• [05:19] That’s it for today!
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