In part 1 of this series What Is A Good Time To Post? I tested a theory about when would be the best time to post. I focused on the US because all my post are in English so I figured that I would get the best results when the US was online. The purpose was to have maximum exposure and get as many views as possible.
In the second part I scheduled my post to be submitted at 9 AM EDT (3PM CEST, 6AM PDT). The idea was that it would be seen in the US until 12PM PDT (9AM CEST,3AM EDT) for a total of 18 hours !
I posted my blog using Streemian at 8PM EDT (3AM CEST, 5PM PDT).
For those that still don't know about Streemian, it's is a handy tool for (among others) automating curation, voting, and scheduling posts. Go check it out!
The results of the second Post
This time I scheduled the post to go live while I was at work (3PM CEST). When I got home from work I checked the results and saw that the post got viewed 24 times, had gotten 6 comments and 6 votes. This isn't bad but less than the 27 views from my first "Best Time to" post (posted at 3AM CET/9PM EDT/6PM EDT).
So the first post in the series (step 1) is leading in in regards of views (27 vs 24 views).
The first post and second post are still getting views. It will be interesting to see what the total views will be after 7 days. At the moment the first post (Step 1) has received a total of 50 views and Step 2 has been viewed 34 times).
The Next step
Well that will be this post obviously. I will post this on Monday around 4PM EDT (10PM CEST, 1PM EDT). I have had my best results with posting in the afternoon (CEST) in the weekend so I wonder if I can reproduce this with posting in the US in the afternoon. Total time of exposure in the US will be 14 hours, but I have seen in the first two steps that the number of views decline dramatically after the first hour or so.
Step 4
This post will be submitted at the (in my opinion) worst time: 3AM EDT (9AM CEST, 12PM PDT). I expect that this post will do the worst but it will be interesting to see the final results. Because of the weekend I will post this onTuesday.
The weekend is a different situation all together. After this test I am going to do some more test postings to see what the results are. As I mentioned earlier my best payouts have been in the weekend posting in the afternoon (CEST).
Overall Results
When I have collected all the data I will make some Graphs and present the final results and my conclusions.
Let me know what your experiences are with posting at different times, remember to mention your time zone.
Best Time To Post: Part 1
Best Time To Post: Part 2
