What's the best time to publish your blog post? Well, it really depends on who you're trying to reach. Looking at the United States, most of the population lives in the eastern half of the country. Once you cross the Mississippi River, you enter the soft, gooey, sugary underbelly of our lovely landmass (the empty flyover states, where cow-mating farmers frolic in the fields). Just kidding, we love you guys! :)

Is there anybody out there?

Much like the "Empty Quarter" in Saudi Arabia, Wyoming is practically devoid of people, with the smallest population of any State. Aside from Texas, the action doesn't start to pick up until you reach salvation on the sunny West Coast of California.

Nine states in the Midwest/West have more cattle than people:

South Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
North Dakota
Wyoming
Kansas
Idaho
Iowa
Oklahoma

Most blogs reach peak traffic at 11am Eastern Time and the West Coast Pacific Time Zone is three hours behind at 8am. So, if you're in Germany (6 hours ahead) you would post at 2pm local time to reach the tech influencers in Silicon Valley and 5pm local time to reach the majority of the US audience.

11am NY time around the world:

Berlin: 5pm (6 hours ahead)
London: 4pm (5 hours ahead)
Moscow: 7pm (8 hours ahead)
Sydney: 3am (16 hours ahead)
Cape Town: 6pm (7 hours ahead)
San Francisco: 8am (3 hours behind)
Tokyo: 1am (14 hours ahead)
New Delhi: 9:30pm (10.5 hours ahead)
Beijing: 12am (13 hours ahead)
Istanbul: 7pm (8 hours ahead)
São Paulo: 2pm (3 hours ahead)
Jerusalem: 6pm (7 hours ahead)
Ulan Bator: 12am (13 hours ahead)
Lagos: 5pm (6 hours ahead)
Baku: 8pm (9 hours ahead)
Auckland: 5am (18 hours ahead)
Aceh: 11pm (12 hours ahead)

With a ton of data around, I looked at my own experience blogging and noticed patterns when posting. Most tech news sites post between 7 and 9am, with some getting the jump as early as 6am.

Many of my favorite YouTubers upload as early as 3am (NY time) Hitting the morning European crowd and setting themselves up to be first out of the gate in the US. I got good results at 7-8am (workers checking the web before their commute) 11am (first break or start of lunch) 1pm (back from lunch) 3pm (next break) with a last check-in at work between 4-4:30 pm (right before the evening commute) and 7pm (arrival at home) final browsing of the web before prime time television.

Publish at the right time...

So when publishing an article, try to tailor the upload time to the region you intend to connect with the most. If I were writing about a Steemit meetup in Aceh, I would post it for the local time there. The good thing is that there is always someone awake somewhere, so you will always have the chance to be seen. What time do you publish your blog posts on Steemit?