I’m trying to analyze which posts of mine are most successful — prompted posts? My own ideas? Short posts? Long post? Personal posts? Posts about writing? I have come to the conclusion that I can’t predict what will get me more viewers.
I’ve always thought prompted posts performed better than non-prompted posts, long posts better than shorter posts, and posts about writing better than personal posts.
Yesterday, a short prompted post about what personality traits I disliked — with no title — performed better than any post I’ve had in the past couple weeks. This is expected because the prompted posts appear to get more circulation. Yet I’ve had other prompted posts only get as many likes as one I’ve written without a prompt.
My best performing post of all time had to do with my wedding anniversary. Other posts (even about birthdays) have gotten little attention.
There seems to be a randomness to what plays well and what does not, which means I’m learning nothing about how to improve my traffic.
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Late to comment – but I absolutely agree – I write for people with chronic pain, and I tried to figure out how to help them better by looking at which posts got the most likes, or comments, or whether to post early in the week or later, whether the titles had a question mark in them… blah blah blah… there was absolutely no rhyme or reason… I gave up and just post what I want to write about – it either lands or it doesn’t… good luck! Linda 🙂
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I think it all has to do with what gets featured on the “front page”. Sometimes I find an old post gets traction a couple weeks later. I wish I knew what criteria gets posts on the “front page” and how long they stay there.
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My template has about 9 posts on the landing page, once they slip off that they are invisible, unless I include links back to them on more recent posts. It’s tricky… a lot of effort for a short flash of attention!
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