On Blogging Australia

…to blog hardly at all owing to the personal stuff, my RSS readership is growing, as is my pagerank and Technorati rank.

Why is this so? Is the cult of daily posting wrong? Or do I just have lots of friends that visit my blog regardless?

I think that the answer is a little of both. I still believe strongly in the power of daily posting when you’re new - it gets you into the writing habit, and establishes a body of work that the search engines can get a good hold of (and drag in new readers for you). It also gets your name in front of people who read community feeds (like the Australian Blogs Community on BUMPzee) - and I know that this has helped increase both my readership and my inbound links (which, in turn, helps with pagerank and Technorati rank).

It is also fair to say that I have a lot of wonderful friends that read my postings - both feed and blog site.

I think that the increase in ranking has to do with the amount of material that I already have here and over at Facibus On Blogging.

All that said - daily readership is dropping, and to me this means that I need to get back into some kind of regular posting cycle if I want to start to win people back. When I can see light at the end of this particular tunnel I’ll tell you about the last month or so, but in the mean time, I’m back to posting as often as work and energy allows.