Ever since I increased the number of posts on my home page to 14 I’ve been keeping a careful eye on the amount of search traffic brought here by Google. When I first set it down to 7 it stood out that within 2 or 3 days that all search traffic has gone. To be fair I don’t think that it is so much the amount of posts on your home page but rather the length of time that each post appears there that matters. For a blog like mine that I try and update every day then 14 posts (or 2 weeks) seems to have helped get that search traffic back. Of course there may have been other influences as well but the way in which I can coincide the search traffic going and coming back is way to strong to ignore.
Want to see what the difference has been, then here’s the graph from Google analytics showing Google search traffic:-
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7 Responses to “Does The Number of Home Page Posts Matter? YES!”
Graeme
November 22, 2009
Let me get this right, your saying to remove old posts from your home page to maintain load speed but keep about 14 post to maintain content. Right?
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Paul B
November 23, 2009
No, I’m saying match the number of posts on your home page to your update frequency to give each post a decent chance of being indexed as being linked from the home page. If you do 5 posts a day the you may need 60 posts on your home page.
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