[Mini Case Study] Is Content Still King?

Are you performing any onsite/offsite optimisation? I have a couple of experiments going at the moment, one regarding pinterest and another as mentioned which tests the 'is content still king' debate.

Subscribed and looking forward to your results.
 
You might want to try kicking things up a notch and doing posts that are at least 2000 words long. Sure, many will bounce but those aren't your target-the length is FILTERING people. You need people who will form a COMMUNITY around your content and be EMOTIONALLY INVESTED enough to be your social media promoters.
 
Quick Update

Sorry for not posting recently. I was busy doing other things haha. Anyways, here's the rundown of the analytics of the new/old/alpha generation articles:

(click the attachments to expand them)

New Generation

Article 1:
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Article 2:
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Article 3:
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As you can see,you get a massive jump in traffic, and because of the fact that there's a lot of content compared to before, you get more viewers as well!


Old Generation

N/A as of yet, but to compare, I'll post a screenshot of how my old article did in order to show you the differences.
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If you look closely, the pageviews are more scarce, and on top of that, they aren't distributed as evenly as the new generation articles. There are even some days where there's 0 pageviews even.

Note:
I did do a lot of revising here (about 5-10 articles revised), but I'm too tired to get the stats at the moment.

Alpha Generation

Article 1:
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Article 2:
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Article 3:
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Most of the articles are already off to a strong start! In fact, the articles actually get triple that of the old generation (not revised), and are on par with the new generation articles! Just to give you more evidence that it's the word count, here's a screenshot of how my site does in general after I put the 600 word rule into effect:

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There was a big bump 3/4 of the way into November, and sure enough, it was the 600 word articles that brought the traffic in. Keep in mind, before you state that those 6 articles couldn't have brought that much in, these articles are actually just test group articles, and I have written much more than 6 600 word articles.

I will try to post more frequently, but for now, I hope this is enough :)
 
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