Well, I got the go-ahead from Staingirl Kaye. We may proceed with our 30-day challenge, but there is a caveat. If I’m going to make her write so much, she gets to write about David Cassidy. David Cassidy, seriously? If we are going to write about our favorite beefcakes, what about George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Travolta or Bruce Willis before he shaved his head? And if it must be a crush from the sixties, how about Donny Osmond (And they called it puppy love), who at least has great dance moves on Dancing with the Stars? But hey, this was my idea, and unless I want to write 30 days straight, David Cassidy it is.   Well then, Kaye, you’re going to have to watch Donny Osmond dancing the tango on Dancing with the Stars.

We began this 30-day blogging challenge as an experiment. We wanted to see whether consistency in writing our great content (David Cassidy, seriously?) would lead to an increase in readership. The logic is that frequency in posting would get us noticed by the search engines, which would in turn lead to greater traffic. What do the experts have to say?

It’s a mixed bag. You have proponents and naysayers. Blogbloke referred to some chart from Technorati that showed more traffic on websites with more posts.   Several bloggers swear that writing good content often and consistently will lead to increased traffic. And then others say it’s all about the marketing.

Of course, I looked to my favorite blogging guru, Problogger. I had always read on his site that “Content is King”. So I figured he could set us straight on this topic. His take: good content is important to provide to your readers, but you still have to get readers on to your site. He actually says that “write it and they will come” is a secret to success shared by new bloggers who have yet to find success.  Ouch! I think I have given the fam more ammo for teasing me.

Well, we want to see for ourselves. For the next 29 days, we will post one blog every day. We will not join any directories or submit any articles anywhere. We will allow pingbacks and trackbacks because we always have. We will look at overall traffic and more specifically at traffic brought to staingirz.com via the search engines. We will even let you know which keywords brought the most traffic (David Cassidy?) We will report the results at the end of the 30 days.

And because we are in experimentation mode, after the 30 days we will experiment with different manners of marketing our blog. We’ll see how much our blogging traffic increases after we join directories, etc. If you have any ideas to help us in the marketing portion of our experiment, please let us know.

 Well, here’s to another 28 days of blogging, and learning way more than I ever wanted to about David Cassidy. And Kaye, I may have you listening to Puppy Love!