How often would you prefer to update a website?

According to your opinion, how often your website should be updated? What website updates are the most important for a website? What advices would you provide for people who are going to update a website?

My basic rule is that I have to update my site with high quality content. Now the more often you update a site is the better. So it actually depends on you, and on the frequency that you can produce quality content.

Interesting topic and one I plan to write on in more depth. When I first created my business website I did not know anywhere near what I do now when it comes to SEO. Over the past week or two I have been reviewing every page of my business website.

In between cleaning up a few pesky typos, I've begun to totally rethink how each page links to the other, clean up the meta tags and even rewrite/re-optimize many of the under-performing pages.

In answer to your specific question with regard to existing content, a lot depends on if you believe you can improve the inter-linking of your pages, the keyword optimization or just make things look more appealing with a design change. If you don't see the potential for gain, you should focus on adding new content rather than messing with the old.

As to adding new content - every time I add new page(s) to any of my sites, I see a measurable increase in traffic within a few days.

I think, it will be every day. Site must live with us.

It is better if you update daily, search engines will rank you more.

Yes, I agree Google and many other search engines like frequent content updates!

I do not have a specific time. But I would prefer to update it weekly or at least monthly. Depending on site, you could do it often or not. For the corporation site, we can't do it often - press releases, events, news - it's how we update it. So, everytime when something interesting happen in the company, we post about it and update the site.
More, when we have an advertising campaign, we try to update the site too. Other method we use is for a specific campaign, we make a minisite, which will direct users to specific pages of the site. So even if we do not update the site, we get new links and offer users something fresh.

I agree with this assessment.  Even if you were to add a little blurb to your site on a daily basis, I think it's important for people who are going to your site for one reason or another should have that feeling that the information that they're reading is the most up-to-date.  Many people would look @ the front page and see the date of the latest addition.  If it's within 24 hours of their visit, for all intensive purposes they think that it's current (even if they don't read the updated content).  Yes, I realize that this may be thinking that I would think some of our visitors may not have the highest IQ, but when they do see a current date as far as an update, they tend to stay for a longer period of time.

You should update your website everyday. Search Engines love this kind of websites.

I update my website everyday. It is good for googel pagerank although sometimes the quality of my articles is not high.

I will prefer it at least thrice a week..

and if i have regular visitors coming, i would prefer it to be daily.

I update it at least everyday.

Hmm ok well i ahve to find a way to update my site every day.

Thanks for the info

it depends what is the main objective to update if it will be due to expanding of customers than i will be paying less intention to the interface and concentrate on other technical matters.

thanks this is a nice post.keep it up

same here with other guys, i update my blog at least everyday... a viewer would love to read up-to-date entries on a site

I've discussed this topic at length with fellow successful social marketers. Their "mo" is simple. Content trumps over quality. If in doubt, update as often as possible. I hate to admit it... but based on what I've seen I think they are probably right.

a daily update at least would be highly recommended but it really depends on a lot of things. What your website it, its level of competition, is it's title something like "daily updates", and other stuffs. But if it's a stable site already ith a decent amount of good traffic, then twice a week would be just practical.

i update my wesite thrice a week. it has given my site chance to get good pr.

Two or three times a week is a must for my site!

I like this site but I thing you can update daily your silte. this the nice job.

Thanks

I tried to update my blog either once a week or twice or thrice a week it really depends on my mood coz sometimes I have no will to update my blogs

A good site should be updated daily, like a news site.

I update once a day. To be quality but not quantity.

For my site i do 3 times per week but I think daily update is better. Change rate in google analysis so how often new content come and change happens with the site. I love to see that is high.

Your website is just like a newspaper for someone ..If you like reading newspaper early morning the same goes for your viewers...they would come back again and again for fresh content

I will usually update my sites once a week. Well, of course I want to update them everyday but I have too many to update. LOL.

I myself would love to update my website daily, but I don't get ideas easily to write quality content and I don't want to hire ghostwriter, so i try my best to at least make one post a week.

Well I update every day or at least alternate day of week..

It is better if you update daily, search engines will rank you more.

Its depends upon site and type of update. It also depends upon the requirement of website that some websites are updated on daily bases. I like to update my site once in a week.

agree. daily update is the most important, and focus on producing qualified content on your site~~

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thanks for the posts...am started to update my site in everyday...

So it is good to add a forum to your website - it might be useful from the SEO perspective.

As a SEO point of view, the website needs frequent changes but these changes depends upon the nature of site. Some sites needed frequent changes and some sites does not needed so much changes.