How Many Posts Should I Write? (To Kick Off My Site)

A new website needs at least 100-150 blog posts for it to develop E-A-T and domain authority. You should start your website and build it from the ground up by adding posts to your site until you have at least 50 posts. You do not need to write even a single post before your website is set up. Creating content for your site will improve and become easier as you go along. Often people never start a site because the idea of writing so many posts that are over a thousand words seems too daunting.

Take a chance on yourself and dive right in.

There is no ideal blog post number that will get you from zero to the most awesome blog/website on the internet. The only thing that can help you get to success faster is quality content and lots of it. This is because you are just starting out and you need to show the very condescending world that you have what it takes to be awesome!

Trust me you are awesome in your own special way and do not lose faith in yourself now or ever.

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Do I need to write my blogs before publishing my site?

No, you do not need to write your blog posts before you start your site. Because when you publish your website with an “About Page” and then you publish articles as you go the search engines will follow you as you grow. They are bots who will not judge you like humans. 🙂

Seriously if you keep writing and pumping out content, then search engines will crawl your site and know that your site has a beating heart.

Some people do write 5-30 posts before publishing their site, but honestly, most people would lose heart and forget about writing for the aforementioned site eventually.

It is important to do a lot of work and expect nothing for the first few months of writing and publishing blogs. Stay motivated!

Here is what you should do to stay in the blogging game for the long haul.

If your website is published and you tell some trusted friends/family about your small business venture.

Then you build and publish your site (building your website from scratch will teach you WordPress basics, which I highly recommend; if you get someone else to do it for you then you will feel uncertain and afraid to play around in the WordPress backend).

Now you feel like you have to make something of your site and thus you will take the building of your site much more seriously.

Fool yourself into feeling accountable to stay in the game, because most blogs fail due to people who give up. The reason is that everyone thinks it is fun and exciting to start but very few people actually stick to it with a vision in mind. It is hard to write every day for months with no visitors.

Like with all good things starting a successful blog takes time, patience and hard work. The up side is that it is a low capital business to start from the ground up.

How many posts should I write to get my site off the ground?

I would say as many as possible, but that would not get anyone anywhere. To show search engines that your site is alive and pumping information regularly, you have to publish posts frequently.

That said you do need to put a content dump on your site to make the magic happen faster. So here is what you should do, buckle-down and write every single day for 3 to 6 months. Writing 1000,2000 and 4000-word posts at a time will take you hours of work. Trust me, and writing is the easy part! Write and do not stop your blogging mania until you have a total of 100 posts published on your site!

When you buy a new domain name and build your website from the ground up it takes time for your site to become relevant to search engines, and the best way to get ahead is to create great content and a lot of it.

Previously people could kick start a site with a mere 30 blog posts but that time is long gone.

These sites were known as niche websites.

To show search engines that you are an authority on the topic you write about; you will need to write at least a hundred posts before you can sit back and make a posting schedule of either 1 or 2 posts each week.

You might think it impossible to write a hundred posts, or you may be confident that you can nail the number of posts and so much more.

Either way, to show your readers and search engines that you are a worthy website, you need to have a constant flow of content being pumped out.

Think about it, if you visited a site that had only two or three posts and you were publishing a post every week then your readers will probably not be returning. Also, Google will not deem a site with a few posts as rank worthy. Your site can make awesome progress, but it will take years before that happens.

So first create great content and publish it until you have a nice batch of content on your site. Then get comfortable with a blogging schedule and stick to it!

How many posts per week, month or day?

A steady stream of two posts each week should be your starting point for a constant flow of publishing content. You can write less, but you should not. A website producing two posts each week is publishing more content than over 50% of webmasters online.

Make a posting routine after you have published at least 50 posts.

There is no easy way out of this you have buckle down and write! Once you have your site up and running with a sizeable amount of content, then maybe start writing one post a week and merge into writing two posts each week.

How much should I write in each post?

Nothing less than 1000-1500 words for a short answer post. For a little longer post that covers more information, you should write a post that is 2500-3000 words, and finally, some big topics need pillar posts, which are at least 4000-4500 words long.

The unspoken goal is to get over 100,000 words on your blog so that search engines understand that you know what you are talking about. Of course, your content should have no fluff and only helpful easy to read knowledge-based text.

E-A-T (expertise authoritativeness and trustworthiness), which is part of Google’s best practices for webmasters requires all number of changes. Still, quality content will inevitably help your on-site authority.

How will I write so many posts and is it really possible?

It is possible, and you can write about 10 posts a month. It may be impossible for anyone to write more than this amount.

The only way to write more will be if you are a well of knowledge on the topic you write about. Also, you will have to have a blog post hit list that you can get your topic heading and subheading from to write your posts on a daily bases.

For bloggers writing is mostly not the problem, but knowing what you will write about is the hard part.

This is because we as bloggers do not pick random topics to write about and then publish our ideas.

A blog is an answer to someones question and you will not be the only one answering it.

In essence, finding topics that need accurate answers to that you feel you can answer better than someone else then BAM you just got your blog topic.

So this is what you will find your self doing, half an hour researching your blog topic and doing keyword research for your title heading. Then writing your blog is child’s play.

The best way to get ahead is to brainstorm blog ideas at the beginning of the month so that you have all your blog titles ready and waiting.

Then brainstorm your subheadings like this:

Title heading: The best WordPress theme
Subheading 1: How to your theme, Kadence WP
Subheading 2: How setup your theme
Subheading 3: what is the best free theme

With a title heading and subheadings ready and waiting for you filling in the information will be easy. For quality content remember to spend some time researching on the topic you write about. It is especially important because after you have read and researched enough you will use the correct terminology on your topic.

Final thoughts

Just start your website and write! We all make mistakes but if you never made mistakes you will never learn. Always remember that quality content is extremely important. In the end of the day it is better to write fewer posts but long posts that are full of helpful information. So many bloggers lose sight of this and then they pump out mediocre content that will not rank on Google.

Google has no place for mediocre content anymore.

Keep heart and write on my fellow bloggers!