Thread: How Often Do You Post?

I started a blog.

I believe I'll post when I've something really good to say - not crap rehashed information, 5 ways to get indexed - blah blah.

Quality and consistency, a good blend ftw.

Yeah, I personally feel that consistency is the key. I comment on one blog where the timings are all over the place... sometimes I'll have to wait 2 weeks for them to post, sometimes two days, sometimes a week, you get the idea. As a result I stopped checking back and only go on there if he tweets about it.

This is a very good point. Consistency should be maintained. I think a couple of posts a week are easily achievable and that's not too inconsistent. Whatcha think?

Yeah, I suppose the more traffic/the more established your site is, the less it matters as you'll still be getting plenty of social bookmarking and search engine traffic. Look at Rauru... he didn't post for about a month and his blog actually got MORE successful!

No, we're still fetching the content for the human.

More successful, people have their own metrics. Thing is What's the use of that traffic? Neither are you capturing it, nor are you benefiting them with a solid post, and you're admitting you were more successful? BS.

If there is money raining, and you're spreading the news that money is raining but not actually taking any of it - it's foolish.

But that's just my opinion.

Yeah, I agree with you, I was just saying as I thought it was relevant to the thread

Like you say, it is important to have quality, but as long as you put your own twist on it and present the ideas in a unique, easy to read way, it's a good post (in my opinion).

Originally Posted by Simon

Yeah, I agree with you, I was just saying as I thought it was relevant to the thread

Like you say, it is important to have quality, but as long as you put your own twist on it and present the ideas in a unique, easy to read way, it's a good post (in my opinion).

Yep, agreed.

That said, I just realised it was two days since my last post, so that was dissapointing. I think it's all about getting in a routine (which usually I can do), but if you have friends round to go out (like I did today) it makes life tricky. In this scenario, I recommend you schedule a post or something rather than panicking at the last moment like I just did

I try to keep my posting rate at 1 post every 2/3 weeks.

not too often because i have many activity beside blogging. And i'm not always have idea for blog content

Gaya... 1 every 2-3 weeks?! Surely you are missing out on a lot of potential readers?

Originally Posted by akira07

not too often because i have many activity beside blogging. And i'm not always have idea for blog content

Hmm, I find that you can usually find an article in your niche and take the points from that, then put your own unique twist on it. Usually this'll only take about 20 minutes, so if you can't do that you must be a VERY busy person

It's just that I can't post as much. I write quality + well thought tutorials. They can't come at a fast rate It takes a lot of time to write them.

I totally agree with Gaya, better to post 1 rocking article a month than 10 crap articles in a month.

Originally Posted by Gaya

It's just that I can't post as much. I write quality + well thought tutorials. They can't come at a fast rate It takes a lot of time to write them.

Ah, very true. Quality over quantity, as my English teacher always says lol.

Yeah, the articles/tutorials you post are really high quality, I'm not disputing that, but surely the lack of posts means you're missing out on a fair amount of returning visitors?