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Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Traveller_Adventure — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:20:11 -0000

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microsoftnetdevelopment — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:21:33 -0000

Great Post! Really very interesting one. I enjoyed a lot. Thanks.

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alexmoon — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:54:33 -0000

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Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

longshorttrader — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:52:22 -0000

Wow, that's pretty interesting analysis. I normally post early in the morning but I'm going to try putting stuff off until late morning instead to see what happens.

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Rita Kai — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:44:01 -0000

Thank you for doing the research. I was looking for someone to answer this question. Now I know not to publish on weekends or late at night. I've been rather guilty of it.

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Rob Scott — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:44:02 -0000

I'm not sure the time of posting makes one iota of difference. The time it lands in Digg or Reddit or whatever may be more important, though. For example, if your post hits the digg "upcoming" list (i.e. is first dugg) at prime web time, then it stands more of a chance of finding readers from that source than at a less busy period. Therefore, I fail to see why any particular time can be considered 'the best time to post.'

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

David Cross — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:51:37 -0000

Like IBM's study in the 70s or 80s that "people are more receptive to new information on a Tuesday" I love data like these because it means if the suggestion become popular, even a "rule", and people really do start posting only between 10am-2pm, Pacific, Tues-Fri, with the belief that is when "popular posts" are published, it will skew the data as everyone clamors for the "right" time to publish, making space for us to post great content at our websites and not get caught in the crowd.

The thing to realize is that there are many metrics that may be important in an online business and "Diggs" or "popularity" may not count at all. As we've seen in the dot-com bubble #1, popularity or eyeballs alone do not a business build. We've proven that low-trafficked but high converting ($$$ or email signups) content far exceed any content where the only metric of success is "popularity".

Keep on publishing these kind of data - I love them.

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Snigel — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:36:02 -0000

I agree with Rob in that this is nonsensical and the conclusion is plain wrong. What this study shows is merely when people browse the internet; nothing else can be deduced from the data. For this study to say anything at all, it would have been necessary to compare popular posts (the figures in the article) with unpopular posts (with lower rank). If there was a significant difference between the two sets of data in terms of publish time, then a conclusion might have be drawn.

For example, if the data showed that popular posts were more frequently posed during certain hours, it might perhaps be deduced that publish time is correlated to popularity. As it is now, this study shows merely when people surf the Internet. I highly doubt that a significant difference will be found, but I would be overjoyed if someone did the necessary statistics (after all, I came here to learn about when to publish my posts!).

On the contrary, it could be argued that it is bad posting during the hours indicated here, because competition is much stronger (provided that you are not writing things so important or interesting that you will beat everyone else regardless, but I think we can safely assume that is not the case for most people). Instead, posting late at night might give you more views and comments because there is simply not much else around to read. Of course, I cannot back up this hypothesis with any data, but that is true for this article as well.

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Rob Redmond — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:18:33 -0000

The data are accurate: these are the days and times that people browse.

The conclusion is absurd: there is no correlation between publication time and browsing time. Publish on Sunday and the post is read on Tuesday. That is the only conclusion you can draw. That a post will go unnoticed or is better published on a busy web day cannot be determined.

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ojbyrne — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:59:37 -0000

@Jake, that's why I said "maybe." Post-rank's algorithm is not really clear.

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jake — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:28:56 -0000

@Owen, PostRank tracks the quality of the post so it represents the posts with the most reaction.

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jake — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:12:19 -0000

@Richard H, good find! Like I said I blog late at night :)

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Sam Jackson — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:31:19 -0000

I think there might be a nice deal of variety across niches, and blog personality--would be interested in seeing some cross-sector comparisons.

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Terence — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:01:06 -0000

I have noticed something unusual about Thursdays too but I don't know if there is a correlation. Google Adsense clicks pay out more for me on this day too. Is there something about Thursdays?

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ojbyrne — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:01:48 -0000

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like you're not accounting for the volume of items submitted at different times, so that a post at 2 am might be proportionally more likely to become popular, even though the absolute number is smaller, because the total number is also smaller.

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Richard H — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:59:49 -0000

Good info Jake, thanks. But search as I may, I can't for the life of me find Thurday on my Blackberry or on any of my calendars. ;)

Re: Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)

Matt S — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:47:06 -0000

I believe you have secured your star on the "Social media" walk of fame, my friend. Very cool stat to dig up [or mix up... whichever you prefer... hehehe]

Would have been funny had it actually been posted on a Thursday at Noon. ;)

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Marshall Kirkpatrick — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:26:02 -0000

Couple of broken links here, the very first one and the one to R - but would love to discuss this with you for a post on RWW. Can you email me about a couple of questions I've got?