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Re: How Much Should I Blog?

RI — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:44:36 -0000

Hei there.
What an excellent advice for the newbies and others. I have been blogging now for eight months and am aiming to do these days 'quality' over 'quantity' as I have my regular plus new ones daily readers.Thanks.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Carol Ott — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:30:30 -0000

No, not at all. I just want more than a link farm, I guess. You always do a good job of balancing links with content, so my complaint doesn't apply here. Thankfully, since I read your blog all the time.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Aaron — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:24:52 -0000

Yeah, but it's a source you can tap for original content AND links. :) Nothing wrong with linking.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Carol Ott — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:23:12 -0000

Carol: Yeah but the WaPo will get you free Technorati link backs! It’s free publicity! ;)

I totally agree. But I want to read more than just a link to the story. Why did the author think the story was important enough to post? GIVE ME CONTENT!!!! Please?

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Jim "Genuine" Turner — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:18:49 -0000

I tend to do both, and it tends, in my mind, to make it difficult. The RSS and Feedblitz options make it easier for people to get my content, but most of my traffic comes from search. It's a weird mix.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

tillerman — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:49:40 -0000

Excellent observations. I think I'm still in the stage of trying to write something of value every day in order to develop a profile and a reputation and build readership. But I was interested in your comment that eventually you can step back and write fewer but higher quality articles. Not sure whether I want get to that stage or not. It seems to me that there is room for both kinds of blog - the daily newspaper equivalent and the weekly magazine equivalent. Or perhaps one person can be be both - short daily items and once-a-week longer in-depth items?

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Andrew — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:23:00 -0000

I don't think it's so much a question of volume as a question of quality.

There's a line between making inspiration come to you, and forcing yourself to write something just because it's been some arbitrary number of hours since you last wrote.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Carol Ott — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:59:58 -0000

Uh-huh.

Stand outside your house naked, holding a sign that says "WILL WORK FOR CLOTHES" -- betcha that gets you a lot of "free publicity" too.

Quality. I'm all about the search for quality.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:54:55 -0000

Carol: Yeah but the WaPo will get you free Technorati link backs! It's free publicity! ;)

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

sean — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:54:08 -0000

Right on dude! I have always been proud of you no matter what.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Carol Ott — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:53:00 -0000

I'd much rather read quality posts, instead of posts that seem like you're trying to get it out to reach that "one post a day" goal. People can tell the difference.

As for links...well, I tend to read blogs where I get to "know" the author, opposed to blogs that simply link to stories in the Washington Post or CNN. I can read the news just as well as the next guy -- I'd like to read your opinion on the news.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Chrono Cr@cker — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:16:20 -0000

Interesting post Aaron. You have some valid points up there. As Darren says Frequency vs Niche Quality depends on what are you blogging about and how you have built your blog. I believe in a good blend of post. I post lengthy quality articles sometimes or link to a good article the other time. However, a minimum frequency is a must for maintaining the interest of your readers.

Since Technosailor is more like your Personal blog (not exactly!) I think along with articles you must post your thoughts on a recent issue and stuff like that.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Darren — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:29:35 -0000

I think it depends on the blog personally. If you're known as a blog that built itself on writing more content than it's readers can handle and that's it's selling point then to decrease posting frequency is probably not going to go down too well. If your blog is one that makes its name on link post style posts then stick to it, if you make your name writing long in frequent pieces then stick to it.... etc

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Brian Clark — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:58:06 -0000

Nice post Aaron. I think whatever works is a good rule of thumb. But, I think the "must post every day" mantra is hurting the viability of business blogging breaking into the mainstream, and also that readers have got to be overwhelmed out there. I know I am, and I find myself ignoring otherwise excellent content because there's just too much of it.

There's also a lot of bad content too, unfortunately. :)

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

Aaron — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:44:33 -0000

Well I don't mean to make it sound like frequency is equivalent to poor quality.

Re: How Much Should I Blog?

David Nick — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:33:11 -0000

Well Aaron, whatever you do it's working isn't it? It's atleast my hope to post frequently as opposed to the quantity of posts. I know that sounds contradictory, but I think as long as the content is recent and fresh, your readership shouldn't suffer too much (famous last words).