Blog struggles: How often should I blog

Written by Mehmet Webmaster Articles Jan 30, 2008

There is a longstanding discussion around the blogsphere as how often a blog should be updated? Every bloggers has different responses to that question.

If you don’t have anything to say, don’t post anything.
The most important variable that would bring you success is the quality of your content, that contains original ideas, clear instructions, breaking news, etc…

Publish something only when you have something to say. Your loyal readers will subscribe to your RSS feed. And they will expect to receive good quality content, rather than receiving lots of posts, where to many headlines would may become flooding into their feed reader. And that could cause them to drop you off.

Unfortunately, there is not an exact answer to that question. For some fellow bloggers the correct answer is once a day to once a week. But most of advisers recommending to keep posting frequency on 3 to 5 times per week.

But of course, the frequency of posting is also up to topic of your blog. If you are running a news blog that waits 1 week to talk about “how google bought ebay” wouldn’t be that successful.

How often should I blog is second post of an ongoing series – blog struggles

3 Responses for “Blog struggles: How often should I blog”

  1. Ashfame says:
    January 31, 2008 at 4:18 am

    You should consider expanding this post. I didn’t get what I expected.

  2. Mehmet says:
    January 31, 2008 at 5:56 am

    Thank you for your comment Ashfame,

    Posting frequency is a hot question, and the ideal quantity of your blog posts are totally up to the type of blog that you run. Every market is different, some of them needs your blog to be updated hourly, some needs it to be updated daily. The matter of fact, we are not full time bloggers and we can’t spare that much time for blogging. To keep posting frequency high could cause some disadvantages. Keeping posting frequency high could cause many other negative impacts. Eric Kintz has a wonderful article and an impressive closing, which states;

    If you want to be a top 50 Technorati blogger, you will most probably still need to post several times a day. But for the rest of us, we should think seriously about the added value of frequent blogging. Actually, according to Technorati, only 11% of all blogs update weekly or more. What will matter more and more is what you write and how you engage, not how often you write. As the blogosphere matures, the measure of success will shift from traffic to reader loyalty. As Seth Godin says in his post, “blogging with restraint, selectivity, cogency and brevity (okay, that’s a long way of saying “making every word count”) will use attention more efficiently and ought to win.”

    I believe that, not to post daily but to keep posting frequency on 3 to 5 times per week is a good way to blog. That way, we make sure that our readers are not going to miss any single tip.

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