How Often Should I Post?

This is one of the most frequently asked questions about WPTB. I’ll attempt to answer it here allowing for a variety of different situations…

The aim of your whole operation should be to generate as many pages as humanly possible – whilst staying under the radar. The more pages you have that more power you have. Pages = power.

How often you post will depend on several factors:

• What’s your hosting like?
  If you’re on shared hosting then posting less could be beneficial. Lots of other people on your IP could be hitting Twitter every second and it might not look good to post regularly if your tweeting each post.
• What Niche are you in?
  Some niche’s don’t have as much content being produced each day as others. Mega niche’s like weight loss will have an endless supply of content to be scraped – but “lizard farming” might not. You should try and post less if you’re in an obscure niche so you don’t exceed the amount of content being produced. If you’re in a mid-high scale niche then go crazy.
• How much traffic do you want?
  More posts equals more traffic. Ideally everyone would be posting 500 times each day – and Google would love it. The trick is to lower the posting level to one that’s sustainable (depending on the other points mentioned here.)
• Are you using proxies?
  This is mainly directed at the your (automated) tweeting habits. If you use proxies you can tweet more – simple as that. Just make surr not to use public proxies if at all possible as they are pretty rubbish (for many reasons.)

So how often should you post? I would start low and build it up until you feel you’ve hit the “sweet spot”.
If you’re unsure about where to start here are a few pointers:

• Posting 10 times per day is a solid place to start out. (run cron every 144 minutes)
• The most I’d recommend is around 500 daily posts. You may need proxies if you’re tweeting heavily at this rate. (run cron every 3 minutes)
• A good mid figure to pull some nice traffic is 50-100 daily posts. (run cron every 15-30 minutes)
• If you’re on shared hosting you probably shouldn’t post more than 50 times daily (go wild with a VPS or dedi)

REMEMBER: If you’re posting high volumes daily you should try and keep your tweets_per_post and follows_per_tweet to less than 3. You don’t want to be drawing attention to yourself when working at scale or getting nailed for duplicate tweets.

Quick Tip…

Get an idea for what a safe number of posts and tweets is by using the tweet safety calculator.

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