If you are looking for a sure fire way to increase traffic and increase visitors, you have come to the right place.  I did an experiment one month ago to see if I could gain more traffic, visitors and subscribers just by posting one time per day for one month.

It was dubbed the 30 day challenge and I read about it at Bloggeries Forum.  I was immediately interested in the challenge, mostly because I knew I could handle it.  So it began, each day I tried to think of 2 topics, one to write about today and the other to write about for a future date.  This way I knew that I would have plenty of posts that I could spread out over the month.

For the month of April my post count is unusually low.  I had some issues with my hosting and the upgrade to wordpress 2.5 was a mess at first.  But I am still going to use this months posts for something to reference against the 30-some posts for February.

At this point I am only getting about 20-30 visitors per day, according to Google Analytics.  If February, when I was posting a lot more, I was getting about 45-60 visitors per day.  My posts were more consistent then and I think that is easily the reason my visitors went up.  If you keep the content coming, the traffic will just start to roll in.

Now, in April, it wasn’t as pretty.  Like I said, I was only getting about 20-30 visits per day.  Without posting for days at a time, my blog got “old” that fast and people didn’t have any reason to come read it.  This is just a small experiment that really wasn’t planned at all.  It just happened because I had issues with the blog and wasn’t posting as much.  As soon as I noticed the traffic go down, I knew the reason right away.

Keep in mind that if you don’t have anything to post, use the post time stamp to set your posts to appear in the future.  When I have a good day, I will post 2-5 posts and only have one hit that day.  The rest will appear sometime later in the week.  That way you always have something and you can just fill in as you go.

Keep on posting!