
This is the million dollar question on every blogger's mind.This is what troubles me the most as the problem I experience on my site is sudden traffic surges followed by very low traffic.The traffic surges often occur when I update my site or when one of my pages is social bookmarked.So I took to the net collecting data that might help me with this problem
1.When is the best time
-First of all you have to determine where most of your readers are located,to do this I would recommend using free website statistic providers such as histats(which I used to collect my data) or the famous Google analytics
-For me I noticed that most of my traffic was coming from Kenya,USA,United kingdom,India and Canada so correctly timing my posts would be a problem
-So I looked at my traffic graphs and noticed that most users accessed my site at around 1300 GMT which is lunchtime and majority of the people are free at this time.So most of the time I try to publish my posts at this time,although sometimes I get lazy.
2.When is the best day
-This was much more easier to find out as the statistics in the image above show.This is basically behaviour linked as on Monday people are very busy doing things that they postponed during the weekend,Tuesday the stress eases up and people rush to the web to read their favourite articles which they have eagerly been waiting for.On Saturday people usually use this day for social activities such as hanging out or visiting family so Internet access is limited.But this does not mean that you should not update your blog daily or frequently just post your more interesting articles when the traffic is high
I hope you found this information useful