The best time of day to post to your blog

The time of day when Allen and I post updates to this blog generally has more to do with when we can find time away from our other duties – like for-hire research, BizToolkit work, and YouTube – than it does with any sort of strategy.

But a recent study identifies the best times of day to post to a blog – the times when posts tend to get the most response on social media sites – just in case you’re a bit more methodical with your online bloggety-blog strategy than we are. Check it out: Thursday at Noon is the Best Time to Post and Be Noticed. And investigate this entry from Read Write Web for further discussion.

So what’s the best time and day to post?

“between 1pm and 3pm PST (after lunch) or between 5pm and 7pm PST (after work) are the best times and Thursday is the best day. The worst time to post? Between 3 and 5 PM PST on the weekends - nobody cares.”    

For more on using social media sites to spread your blog entries around the Internet, see our recent write-up. This research will surely come in handy as we continue our blog building mission here at the Hill – hope it’s useful for you too.