What do You Believe is Better? Doing it Often or Doing it at Length?
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How Often Should You Publish Your Blog Posts
“I believe you should publish a post when you have something to say. Avoid letting a month go by, but if you don’t have anything to say that adds to the conversation or starts one, then relax. In fact, we’d all relax and have a better experience on the web if the panic-posting frenzy would just lighten up a little.” When it comes to blogging reason there are few people I trust more than Lorelle. You may have noticed that practically every link post I make feature at least one post from her and that is not by chance, but because she so often hits the nail on the head. This post is no different (just look at the quotation above, which beautifully sums everything up) and in fact you could do yourself no better service than to check out what else she has written (as well as those she link to!).
Shattering The Myth of Short Posts
“There’s a prevailing feeling amongst some bloggers that when you post, keeping it short is best. People have short attention spans, some bloggers have found success with bite-sized pieces of information, you don’t want to bore your readers — all kinds of reasons have been trotted out. Well, there’s some data to refute that line of thought.” Personally I just don’t like short posts very much. I do like it when people get to the point and doesn’t write more than a particular subject can bear, but writing a couple of sentences and calling it a blog post just doesn’t fly with me. If I wanted bite size bits of wisdom I would simply read a quotation book. The occasional short post is okay, but if all you do is one liners you should be twittering instead of blogging. Thankfully it seems that now there is data backing up that it is alright to actually post something it takes a little time and effort to write and read.
How Long Should a Posts Be?
“I believe a blog can be successful based around both short and long posts. Check out sites like Engadget or Gizmodo for short post sites (often newsy based ones like short posts) or Read Write Web or Steve Pavlina for longer, deep and/or analytical ones. I think the key is to develop a rhythm in the style and focus of your blogging so that readers come expecting to get what you offer them.” I am tempted to say “no kidding”, but I respect Darren Rowse too much to do so. However, his examples just goes to show that this isn’t black or white. It is mostly gray and gray matter(s) if you will. Equally important is that you neither have to post like Engadget nor like Pavlina to enjoy success. In fact you can enjoy success posting as you choose, which is fine by me as I will rather decide for myself. What does matter is that you read Darren’s article as he is a lot more concrete than I am.
The noisy tragedy of the blog commons
“Without friction, without a gate on the clutter, we clearly face a commons problem. Here, though, instead of people taking too much of a shared physical good because they have nothing to lose, the problem is surplus. By writing too much, too often, we’re trouncing on the attention of the commons.” Since the amount of information you can produce in digital form is practically limitless is there no natural limit to blog posting. Since high frequency is even rewarded is there furthermore a motivation to produce as many posts as you can. However there are limits and very real limits at that to how much information people can digest and this may end up being our best bet on the future of blogging. That is at least Seth Godin’s hope as I understand it and naturally one which I share.
Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore
“Daily posting shows that you are serious about blogging, generates traffic and drives reader loyalty, as readers come back daily to check your new posts. You cannot be successful if you do not go by the rule, right? RIGHT?” Not quite to put it mildly. Eric Kintz takes much the same stand as Seth Godin above, but takes it even further. Listing 10 points explaining why you should be aware not to post too often he makes a compelling case for being aware that a too high a frequency may end up being what holds you back at some point. Since he makes some very good and specific points without actually falling into the trap of telling you what to do this will get you thinking or at least it should.
I told you to begin with that there is no definitive concrete answer. If you are still in doubt about what is right for you I suggest you either just blog as you can or that you experiment a little with when you write, how you write, how often you write and how much you write. In my experience will you soon learn what suits you. Once you have found what suits you try sticking to it even if that means continuing to mix everything up. How much success you have with it depends not only on how well it suits you, which will show in your posting, but also what people come to expect from you. Once you start creating expectations you better live up to them. Hence is it sometimes better not to set everything in stone, but add some flexibility to your blogging. Ultimately will using quality instead of quantity as your guide serve you both better and longer.
PS: I am sort of sorry about the headline. I can understand how some people could misinterpret it and think this post would be about something different entirely, but as I wrote it I happened to like the ambiguity and decided to stick with it. If you came for the wrong reasons I can just hope you learned something regardless…
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NEVER apologize for what you write. If you have to, don’t write it.
This is a fabulous article that needs no apology. You’ve summed up the wide variety of issues around post content timing, length, and so much more. Beautifully done. Great recommendations.
And thank you for the kind words. I’m whelmed! You made my day. Okay, my week.
Hi Lorelle, you made my week more than once so I am only too happy to return the favor
The apology is not actually an apology, but more a confession of being aware that my headline may be seen as being manipulative, which I normally don’t like and don’t subscribe to. Hence the “sort of” in the first sentence. Still I felt that I needed to make the point.
Since you actually provoked me with a post about link post some time ago do I put a lot of work into them. Actually I did so also before reading your post, but your post made me even more aware of the obligations of writing these and more determined to do it as well as I can.
As a result is your praise worth even more to me. Thank you!