The only way to get a pay raise from blogging is by posting more. There is no way to stand still and expect the money to keep going up, it just doesn’t work that way. Some of the pages in your archive will fall from glory, whether your rankings slip or because the word is no longer popular, so constantly adding new pages serves to replenish your stock.

Updates are the road to success

When you have a small blog archive, it’s tough to imagine a day when your archive will pay your bills. But such a day exists. It exists if you can build your archive to a place where it contains bunches of useful posts. If you do, then search engine traffic will come to your website and monetization is as easy as pie.

Blog archives around 500 posts or bigger seem to be very rewarding. Now I’m sure this isn’t a magic number, but 500 pages in your archive indicates you have the tenacity to keep on blogging. It also creates a great internet linking structure which helps your rankings. When in doubt, just go ahead and update.