Hello again, my social networking friend!

How many articles must your site have before it is deemed worthy enough to be shown to the general public? Some bloggers think it’s necessary to start building traffic right after your first good article. other bloggers believe that you need a pretty large sum of content before you should start marketing it. I believe in the latter as well, although I haven’t done a very good job of holding true to that principle this time around.

I can definitely see why it’s necessary to have a collection of articles before you start directing internet browsers to a website though. A good amount of content before you start marketing your blog would be around 20 articles with 500 or more words. With only a few articles a website looks new and unprofessional, not giving readers a very good reason to come back. Whereas, a website with a plentiful supply of words and pages will have visitors leaving your website and coming back to check out the rest of your content at other times.

Of course many bloggers get impatient, and after 5 articles or so they try to get their blog out to the public. First of all, I don’t blame anyone who gets a little antsy and tells their friends about their website (as long as they don’t give away the url). You need to be able to keep your site to yourself until it’s completely ready to market. If your site is leaked to the public earlier, chances are you’ll lose potential visitors later on in the game.

Good luck Keeping Quiet