RSS FeedsDoes the frequency of your blog posts matter?
Oct 26, 2007
I have observed that sometimes it matters how much you post on your blog and sometimes it doesn’t matter. Actually it depends on what you’re trying to achieve through your blogging. Some blogs post six to seven posts daily. Some of these posts are very long and some are shorter. I think the blogs that host multiple long posts are written by multiple bloggers because it is not easy to write so many long posts in a single day. You can write multiple blog posts yourself, on your own if your blog posts consist of just one or two paragraphs.
How should you decide your frequency? Again it depends on your plan regarding your blog. Adding many posts in quick succession builds your blog property quickly — just make sure the quality doesn’t suffer because low-quality posts are not going to do any good to your blog. So, many posts with lots of links to other, external blogs — I have personally experimented this with HowToPlaza — gets you indexed, at least by Google, extremely fast. HowToPlaza posts started appearing in the search results within five days. This was not my intention because I was expecting that it would take anywhere between two to three months for the posts to start appearing on the search engines. I was able to post, initially, ten posts on average, because most of the posts were very small in nature.
If you plan on writing longer, comprehensive posts, I suggest you should go slow on your posting schedule. Along with being lengthy if your blog posts are analytical in nature you should give your readers sometime to assimilate the message. The ideal frequency would be one post every day. Posting every day keeps you in touch with your readers but it is not necessary. Whatever frequency you select for yourself just stick to a routine. For instance if you blog readers expect a post on Wednesday that give them a post on Wednesday.
Here on Content Blog I don’t follow a routine because I have been trying to follow a one-post-a-day routine. Sadly my other obligations prevent me from doing so.
As always quality precedes quantity. If most of your readers access your blog posts through their RSS feed readers then frequency hardly matters; provided you generate good blog content your blog is going to succeed. These days it is advised — rightly so — that you should write less, write well, and promote a lot. So more than writing your blog posts you should visit other blogs and online forums and interact there. You should also write as many guest posts as possible. Traffic is as important as your blog posts so set your blogging frequency keeping that in mind.
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October 26th, 2007 at 10:02 am
October 29th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Great article. It really depends on what you use the blog for. If its a blog for marketing - it would be good to post frequently, because that creates a lot of buzz and you get people talking about you.
If the objective is just to share ideas, then longer posts once in a while would be better.
I remember once, Problogger ran a survey on why people unsubscribe from feeds - and one of the main reasons was “Too many posts!”
November 9th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
November 18th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
The corrected/revised phrase is from your ‘About Me’ page.
I was impressed by your site and particularly by its organization. The writing isn’t at all bad, though of course, there are the usual stumbles connected to writing in a second language, for example: “…I can deliver the following, in a nutshell…”, where of course the idiomatic phrase would work more efficiently if placed either just before or just after, the main verb, thus: ‘I can, in a nutshell, deliver the following:” or “I can deliver, in a nutshell, the following:” Both versions I suggest above have, I think, the additional benefit of finishing with the word ‘following’, just as you arrive at the gate keeping full-colon. I’m sure you’ll agree that’s better, better than running into a full-colon with an idiomatic expression, no?
Anyway, this is a small quibble; I’m certain you’d have spotted it yourself, if you haven’t already.
Good luck, Amrit.
By the way, Amrit, from this post, ‘Does the frequency of your blog posts matter?’ I saw the following little crease:
“I was able to post, initially, ten posts on average, because most of the posts were very small in nature.”
The rather irritating repetition of the word ‘post’ is the sentence’s least offence. It’s real crime is in its final words… “small in nature”.
Were they trivial posts, Amrit? Were they just mean little texts, devoid of meaning and wretched in content?
Of course not. They were written to the best of your not inconsiderable abilities. They were just brief, truncated messages. They were “small in size” or ‘brief in nature”, but I seriously doubt that they were “small in nature”, Amrit.
Good Luck, once again.
P.S. I’ve also spotted that you have problems using the word ‘lack’ correctly. Think on, as they say in Yorkshire.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:32 am
Your suggestions make perfect sense; I just sent you an e-mail replying to your previous e-mail. Sorry for the late response.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I do like regular posts because I get bored of the same thing everyday! I love reading blogs which are updated everyday.
I update my own blog daily and use Glyphius to help me to do this easily!
Great blog by the way, i’ll definatly be adding this one to my favorites
December 9th, 2007 at 9:16 am
This is a good tip to keep mental health for new bloggers.
Too much rushing to ‘fill’ your blog will create a new type of stress ‘BLOGGING STRESS’. New bloggers must be aware of it before giving up blogging due to blogging stress and depression.
Learn to keep the blogging as pleasure and not pressure.
Thanks
http://www.blogya.in/blogging_becomes_stress
December 15th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I sometimes get James Allenteal, copywriter services to write blog posts for me when I dont have time. Expensive but worth it!
December 15th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I sometimes get James Alenteal, copywriter services to write blog posts for me when I dont have time. Expensive but worth it!
December 20th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I’ve tried using glyphius to help me create blog posts, but I still can’t manage to post everyday like I intended to!
December 30th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
My favorite blog is www.cheezhead.com, and this is a model blog for anyone that wants to start a blog. After having his first recruiting blog on TypePad, he decided to create Cheezhead in 2006 as a standalone brand. Since then, he has one the Recruiting.com Blog Awards and as a result of that signed a two year sponsorship deal with JobCentral.com.
December 30th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
January 1st, 2008 at 9:36 am
January 8th, 2008 at 6:21 am
I get lots of advice about blogs from James Brausch
January 15th, 2008 at 9:15 am
resources too!
January 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Do not over kill the situation with loads of massive posts - mix short, long and medium posts.
MB
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