When he says:

“The only change that you may notice would be directly on the home page of the blog. But that would only be the case if you haven’t added static content to it that would enable you to rank for the keyword phrases you want.”

I hadn’t added static content to the Homepages of my niche blogs before and so I was experiencing my blogs Homepage rankings change if I added new posts (just as Garry says the would due to the lack of static content) . - Me and Garry were both right - he has the better solution!

It’s the change of content that is damaging the page’s search rankings, not the update of the blog.

A real test would require control over your variables and a control, of which you have none. Please do further research and understand what you are talking about before misleading the public.

I would agree with Garry’s suggestions, and suggest that you should discuss and further explore these ideas in future blog posts.

All the Best.
TY

I do see exactly what you mean about adding static content to keep the Homepage ranking much more stable (rather than depending on the content of the latest posts), I have used that to some extent but a much shorter length you suggest (more like a short sentence in H2 tags acting as a sort of sub-heading for the site). I will definitely try out your advice.

It looks your advice could help some of the commenters too.

Thanks, glad to hear from you, it’s been a while!

Matt

I do think that you are always thinking, and that is a great thing. However, I think you are being mislead here. Updating a blog with new content does not have any effects on keyword ranking.

The only change that you may notice would be directly on the home page of the blog. But that would only be the case if you haven’t added static content to it that would enable you to rank for the keyword phrases you want.

To help you with this, I would suggest adding content directly to your index.php file of your blog. Around 200 to 400 words should be fine. From there below your intro content (if you want to call it that) I would recommend displaying only the excerpts of your posts. Make sure the post title uses the H2 heading tag and don’t display any tags or category links below the excerpt.

Allow Google to successfully index your post page, from there it will continuously re-crawl that post page looking for updates and each time it will gain a deeper crawl. Eventually Google will find your tag links and index them as well.

All in all, you shouldn’t be experiencing this problem. As you know too, I own a few hundred niche blogs and by applying some simple seo techniques, you should start to see a difference.