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Several of the highly-buzzed Republican presidential hopefuls have responded to Tucker Carlson’s questions pressing their stance on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
Last week, the Fox News host challenged the already-declared candidates as well as several prominent Republicans who have sparked buzz of potentially entering the 2024 race to answer a questionnaire that asked the following: Is opposing Russia in Ukraine a vital American national strategic interest? What specifically is our objective in Ukraine, and how will we know when we’ve achieved it? What is the limit of funding and materiel you would be willing to send to the government of Ukraine? Should the United States support regime change in Russia? Given that Russia’s economy and currency are stronger than before the war, do you believe that U.S. sanctions have been effective? Do you believe the United States faces the risk of nuclear war with Russia?
Two of the three declared presidential candidates, former President Trump and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, responded to Carlson’s inquiry as well as former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley was the only declared presidential candidate who did not respond to Carlson’s inquiry. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, all who have signaled a potential White House bid, also did not respond to the questionnaire. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton declined to comment.
Trump said, “No, but it is for Europe,” adding that European allies “should be paying far more than we are, or equal.” DeSantis told Carlson, “While the U.S. has many vital national interests… becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.” Noem pointed to China as being the “primary external threat” to the U.S. instead of Russia, saying the war in Ukraine “should be Europe’s fight, not ours.” Ramaswamy says it’s not vital to oppose Russia while stressing it is vital for the U.S. to have energy independence, insisting that had Europe relied more on the U.S. for oil and gas instead of Russia, the invasion might not have happened.
Meanwhile, Pence touted the “Reagan doctrine” of fending off enemies on their shores to prevent America’s direct involvement, telling Carlson, “There is no room for Putin apologists in the Republican Party. This is not America’s war, but if Putin is not stopped and the sovereign nation of Ukraine is not restored quickly, he will continue to move toward our NATO allies, and America would then be called upon to send our own.”
Scott says it is a vital national interest to degrade Russia’s military. Christie similarly states, “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is a national security issue that threatens our alliances and our standing in the world,” adding “this is a proxy war being waged by Russia’s ally China against the United States” and that “it would be naive to call this anything but Chinese aggression.”
Abbott did not specifically address this question.
Trump said the objective is to “help and secure Europe, but Europe isn’t helping itself,” telling Carlson it’s “very unfair” for the U.S. to largely foot the bill, especially since Europe “takes advantage of us on trade and other things.” DeSantis said “peace” is the objective while Pence told Carlson “victory for Ukraine” and having its sovereignty restored is the objective. Christie similarly said the objective is to “assist Ukraine sufficiently to enable them to defeat Russian forces and restore their sovereignty.”
Ramaswamy said the objective is to “respect any prior legal treaty commitments the U.S. has made,” citing The Budapest Memorandum that established Ukraine’s sovereignty. However, he added the U.S. achieved one objective in exposing Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “paper tiger” over his weak military capabilities while two outstanding goals would be to deter Putin from future aggression and “nudging” Europeans to “take care of themselves.”
Noem did not specifically state what the objective in Ukraine is but told Carlson, “If we had a president who pursued peace through strength, Putin never would have dared to invade Ukraine.” Neither Abbott nor Scott specifically laid out an objective, either.
DeSantis told Carlson the U.S. “should not provide assistance that could require the deployment of American troops or enable Ukraine to engage in offensive operations beyond its borders,” adding that providing F-16s and long-range missiles would be “off the table.” He also said, “Our citizens are also entitled to know how the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being utilized in Ukraine.”
Ramaswamy said he would “limit any further funding or support to Ukraine” as president, adding European allies “need to do more, a lot more — it’s their backyard, it’s their borders.” Noem said “We should not waste taxpayer dollars at the risk of nuclear war,” adding “We’ve already over-extended ourselves in our largesse to Ukraine.”
Trump responded by saying it would “strongly depend” on him meeting with Putin but stressed “Europe must pay.”
Pence said he does not support sending a “blank check” but warned “withholding or reducing support will have consequence” and that “the cost will be far greater” if Putin invaded NATO allies. Abbott slammed President Biden’s “blank check foreign policy,” telling Carlson, “Throwing money at Ukraine with no accountability or objective is clearly failing.” “Before [Biden] sends any more money or assets to Ukraine’s border, he must enforce our immigration laws and secure our southern border,” he added.
Scott called for having “accountability for every single dollar spent,” telling Carlson there would be “no such thing as a blank check” in that situation. Christie did not address whether there is a limit of funding and materiel but said, “It is on us to assist our democratic allies in defending themselves against authoritarian aggression.”
Both Trump and Ramaswamy flatly said, “No.” Noem replied “Not at this time,” warning of a potential destabilization of Europe and nuclear escalation. DeSantis knocked regime change policy as being “popular among the DC foreign policy interventionists” and suggested Putin’s successor “would likely be even more ruthless.” Pence responded by suggesting the question should be posed to the Russian people.
Christie said supporting Ukraine “is not about regime change in Russia; it is about respecting the sovereignty of free nations.”
Scott did not provide a response to this question.
Trump answered, “No, they have not been effective. Just the opposite.” Ramaswamy similarly replied “clearly not,” adding “Russia is stronger because of higher oil and gas revenue owing to higher prices.”
DeSantis said the Biden administration’s policies “have driven Russia into a de facto alliance with China” and since China has not been abiding by any embargo, “Russia has increased its foreign revenues while China benefits from cheaper fuel.” Noem said the U.S. “has come to rely far too heavily on financial sanctions as a weapon of deterrence,” adding “Sanctions against China, Iran, and Russia have bolstered the Russian ruble and enabled China to establish trade in Chinese money rather than in US dollars.”
Meanwhile, Pence rejected the premise of the question, telling Carlson “Russia’s economy and currency are not stronger than before the war.” He insisted Russia’s economy is “in free-fall” and that its ruble is “still afloat because of the extremely costly measures Russia has taken to keep their currency at pre-war levels in the face of sanctions.” He also added that Russia is being “propped up by China” and without its support, “Putin could run out of money by as soon as 2024.”
Neither Abbott, Scott nor Christie addressed this question.
Trump responded by saying, “It depends on who the president of the United States is” but that it is “absolutely” a risk under President Biden. Noem also slammed the Biden administration for “taking us quickly up the escalatory ladder with a series of provocative actions and statements,” adding, “We are closer now to the use of tactical nuclear weapons than we have ever been.”
DeSantis warned escalated U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war “would risk explicitly drawing the United States into the conflict and drawing us closer to a hot war between the world’s two largest nuclear powers.”
Ramaswamy told Carlson the risk of nuclear war grows “the more that China begins to back Russia.” He called out the U.S. for giving up “negotiation leverage” as Russia has “brazenly violated every nuclear arms control treaty” and added “The global defense establishment must dig its head out of the sand and buck up to the fact that China, who is not constrained by any nuclear arms treaty, is secretly building up its nuclear stockpile.”
Pence called Putin “the small and bullying leader of Russia,” saying his nuclear threats a “bullying tactic” but stressed the U.S. “will not be bullied.”
Neither Abbott, Scott nor Christie specifically addressed this question.
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Do you find yourself often pondering blog-related questions, such as how many blogs per month for SEO? You’re not alone. There is no golden rule, but there are set practices to find the best fit for you, and we can illustrate how.
Blogging frequency is a common struggle for new bloggers and experienced bloggers alike. With so many factors to consider, including search engine optimization and brand awareness, it’s certainly an important thing to have planned out.
In this post, we’ll uncover the blogging frequency we found that works for one specific industry. We’ll show you how we drew this conclusion and how you can do the same for yours.
Why Is Blogging Frequency Important?
Blogging frequency is how often you publish blog posts on a weekly or monthly basis.
There are a number of benefits to finding your ideal blogging frequency.
First and foremost, blog posts allow you to rank for organic keywords. These are needed for driving organic traffic to your site.
A frequently updated blog also increases brand awareness. The more you post about your industry, the more aware of your web presence, your products, and your services your target audience becomes.
Blogging can help your business build trust in the community. Posting relevant content about your industry and regularly updating it will help convey trust and authority to your audience. They will be more likely to convert on your site versus a competitor that rarely updates their content or posts blogs.
For more practical reasons, a blog post frequency helps you to set a standard for yourself or your content writing team. Without a frequency in mind, you may constantly focus on writing blog posts at the expense of other activities. This extends to adjacent teams too, like social media and design, who would greatly benefit from a known frequency so they can prioritize their tasks.
So a blog post frequency gives you both an upper and lower limit, which means you can spend more time and money focusing on other aspects of your business.
Are You Blogging Too Often?
In addition to asking how often do you need to blog, it’s not uncommon to ask what happens when you blog too frequently? Or, is that even possible?
Perhaps you’re thinking the more, the better. As you’ll see in the analysis below, it’s not quite that simple.
You could post daily on your blog. Hourly, even. Will it be your best content, though? Remember that quality is better than quantity in almost all cases. By posting too frequently, you may be sacrificing the quality of your content which itself will have a negative impact on your brand.
What We Learned From Our Data about Blogging Frequency
For this analysis, we’re evaluating eight companies in the CBD industry. To find out how many blog posts they publish per month, we looked at their post sitemaps and calculated the average number of posts per month since January 2022.
We looked at a few metrics when measuring their success.
First, we looked at the overall keyword universe, meaning we analyzed the total number of keywords the blog ranks for on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). To drill down further, we also looked at the number of those keywords which ranked within the top 10 results, or on the first page. Finally, we compared the number of organic keywords each business ranked for in the top three results. These are the most coveted positions.
The greater your number of organic keywords, the farther your reach. While it’s not the only metric to consider when measuring success, it is a good indicator of such.
RoyalCBD.com: A High Post Frequency Example
With the highest post frequency on our list, RoyalCBD.com boasts an average of 18 blog posts per month. This seems to have paid off, with 24,351 organic keywords driving traffic to the website.
More important than organic traffic, however, is the quality of that traffic. RoyalCBD seems to boast high numbers there, too. The website has 5,603 keywords ranking in the top 10 and 2,920 keywords ranking in the top one through three positions on SERPs.
JoyOrganics.com
The next on our list, JoyOrganics.com, also happens to be the site with the second-highest posting frequency that we analyzed. That is, 17 posts per month on average from January 2022 through June 2022.
This is likely a contributing factor for the rather high number of organic keywords – 17,103 to be exact – driving traffic to the site. Of those keywords, 1,679 rank in the top 10 and 511 rank within positions one through three on SERPs.
CBDfx.com: Is One Post Per Month Enough?
On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is CBDfx.com, with a blogging frequency of about one post per month.
Before you think CBDfx.com is an anomaly, you should know they have refreshed 155 blog posts on their site in June 2022 alone. This means they optimized existing posts to meet current SEO standards. So while their posting frequency is low, the refreshed content is likely playing a large role in their organic keyword rankings.
CBDfx.com has 18,023 organic keywords with 2,576 ranking in the top 10 and 984 ranking within the top three positions on SERPs.
While we initially looked at post frequency from January 2022 through June 2022, there are some websites that have yet to post in 2022. This includes HempFusion.com. In those cases, we looked back at July 2021 through December 2021.
From July through December 2021, there was an average of seven blog posts per month. Despite not posting in 2022, this prior frequency seems to have provided some protection for HempFusion.com on SERPs. It currently has 2,827 organic keywords, with 391 ranking on the first page and 201 ranking in positions one through three.
MedterraCBD.com
Here’s another site with no blog posts in 2022. From July through December 2021, though, MedterraCBD posted an average of five blog posts per month.
You might be thinking that surely MedterraCBD.com will have fewer organic keyword rankings than HempFusion.com. MedterraCBD.com actually has considerably more. To be specific, 7,435 organic keywords with 840 ranking in the top 10 and 486 ranking in the top three.
There are a few reasons for this. Foremost, MedterraCBD.com has ranked since the middle of 2017 while HempFusion.com only started ranking around January 2020. MedterraCBD.com has also seen higher average rankings overall, so it’s likely to see the effects of not posting less drastically.
JustCBDStore.com
With 14 posts per month, surely JustCBDStore.com has a significant number of organic keywords.
Surprisingly, this site has only 8,680 organic keywords. Of those, 1,615 rank in the top 10, and 776 rank within the top three on SERPs. That’s close to the sites like HempFusion.com and MedterraCBD.com that didn’t post at all in 2022!
We know it’s not the posts per month responsible for that low of organic keywords. So the answer is likely in a factor we have not considered, such as the age of the website or social media presence.
Purekana.com: Moderate Number of Posts Per Month
Another on our list with a moderate number of posts per month, Purekana.com has a monthly blogging frequency of approximately 13.
Similar to JustCBDStore.com, Purekana.com has a small organic keyword profile with 7,126 organic keywords. Of these, 983 rank on the first page of SERPs, and 414 rank within the top three.
cbdMD.com
Here’s another anomaly, though occurring in the opposite direction of what we saw above.
cbdMD.com posts an average of 13 blog posts per month. Despite this middle-of-the-road number of blog posts, it has the most organic keywords on our list with 37,784. This includes 5,924 keywords ranking in the top 10 and 2,154 keywords ranking within the top three.
But How Often Should I Blog?
To recap our findings, we analyzed eight CBD websites with the intention of pinpointing the optimal number of blog posts per month for the industry. Here is what we found:
cbdMD.com has the largest number of organic keywords. When you take into account its modest domain authority and medium-sized backlink profile, it becomes clear that the number of blog posts is the driving factor for its success.
Why is this not the case for JustCBDStore.com and Purekana.com, both of which also post approximately 13 blog posts per month? There are a lot of other variables at play, such as target keywords, length of the average blog post, and social media presence.
What does this mean for you?
Our research shows that for this industry, 13 blog posts per month is a good balance between quantity and quality. These should be focused on well-researched topics with at least one or two target keywords. This should further be accompanied by ample support from your cross-functional teams. This means social media promotion of the posts and digital assets from your design team at the very least. 13 a month was a number that allowed the sites we mention above to strike that balance.
In addition, blog post refreshes should also have a place in your content writing strategy. There’s no magic number of refreshes to implement here. It’s more so about updating older posts that may not fit in with the most recent SEO recommendations. This also gives you an opportunity to improve your internal linking.
Finding the Ideal Blog Post Frequency for You
The blogging frequency we found to be ideal for the CBD industry may or may not be ideal for your industry. So how can you find the ideal blog post frequency for your industry and, even more important, your blog?
The best way to do so is with an analysis of a sample of blogs within your industry like we performed above. You can easily do this with access to XML sitemaps and an SEO analysis tool like Ahrefs or, of course, Ubersuggest.
What does this look like?
Find ten to 15 competitors with blogs in your industry to evaluate.
Take note of how often each site posts within a designated time period. We recommend looking at the last six months if possible.
With the average number of posts per month for each site, you can now use an SEO analysis tool for a fuller understanding of that site’s SEO profile. Look specifically at the number of organic keywords and the number of keywords ranking within the top ten.
With this information combined, you can determine which post frequency correlates to the highest number of organic keywords in your industry.
While organic keyword profile isn’t the only indicator of a solid posting frequency, it’s one that seems to correlate highly. So do take other factors into consideration if something stands out, but don’t overcomplicate it.
FAQs
Here are the answers to frequently asked questions on the subject of blogging frequency.
How many blogs should you post a week?
The answer is not so cut and dry as we’ve highlighted above. Once you have found your ideal blog post frequency for the month, it’s best to break it down into weekly goals.
How often do most bloggers post?
In our data, we saw post frequencies anywhere from once a month to almost 20. The answer is going to vary based on the client’s industry as well as the capacity of their content team, though it’s important not to compromise quality for cadence.
Does it hurt my content marketing to blog more or less than my competitors?
While competitor research can provide a good idea for the number of blog posts to write each month, it’s not the be-all-end-all. You should also consider how many quality posts you can write and whether you actually have something useful to say.
This could be an article topic all its own, as there is a lot that goes into quality blog writing. A few elements of a quality blog post include a compelling headline, a narrow focus, and a unique brand voice.
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Conclusion
When it comes to determining the ideal blogging frequency for your website, there is no magic number. There are many factors that play into that decision.
So how can you determine the best frequency for your blog?
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