Steve’s blog is doing really well and he’s been sticking with his in-depth long quality blogs. Problogger has kept with the frequent postings and have way more content.

So who’s right? I guess it all depends on your audience. Problogger provides tips on blogging and making money. Steve provides personal development articles. So I guess the answer comes down to subject and audience.

Where did you get this one

Thanks for any assistance

Nice forum design. Okay, I need your advice.
So, I wanna make my little sister’s site, and I am looking for site template.
Can you advice some online store or other resource where I can find many site templates?

It would be better if it will be free:)
I think many of us have personal sites, do you design it yourself?

Regards, Bill.

On my design blog, as you suggest, a primary goal is to speak to potential clients and network with other professionals. I’ve had new clients write to me and send a link to something I’ve written and say, “When I read this post, I knew you were the designer for me.” The blog closes the sale. I am always going to be “ok” with posting 2-3 times per week on this blog.

For The Alaska Blog, my goals are a big more complex. At the core, I would do it even if it wasn’t monetized for several reasons, but making money through advertising and affiliate programs is certainly a goal. So being, I think quantity is much more important in this case. I’m seeing empirical evidence that suggests that the more I post, the more traffic I get, the more interest I generate, the more people link to me, and so on.

Still, I fight the notion that quantity is more important than quality. But I’m hopping on the “balance” bandwagon when it comes to this type of blog.

I just started a blog, http://www.thedebtfreeblog.com, and am planning on a consistent schedule that I feel I can keep up with given my regular 45-50 hour/week job. I plan on posting quality (at least I hope they’re quality) entries 3 times a week, Tue, Thur and Sat.

More than once I’ve found a blog I like, but days and weeks go by with nothing new .. so I tend to stop visiting.

For myself, I set an absolute rule of one post per day minimum. If I can do more, great, but I insist upon one. I write ahead as Darren has suggested, and won’t do more than one post until I have a backlog of at least seven days.

I also won’t do more than three posts – not sure why exactly but maybe its from visiting blogs where there is just too darn much..

However, to rank highly in Google these days you need links. How do you get links? Well unless you have several highly ranked sites already, your best bet is going to be writing some really high quality posts and getting other bloggers interested enough to link.

Thus for pro-blogging at least in the form that Darren most often talks about, you need both lots of posts and high quality posts. One or the other will not do.

I love that!

I average about 5 posts per week, but usually I aim to write fairly deep posts that are at least 1000 words (my blog is about personal development). Some of my posts are 4000-5000 words, and I’ve done a couple series on topics that amount to 15,000+ words. That’s a lot for people to read, but it appeals to people who are motivated to seek new insights into topics like self-discipline or productivity or building courage. So while I’m not added pages too rapidly compared to more prolifiic posters, I think these deep-analysis posts generally provide more value for subscribers.

It’s interesting to see that there appear to be multiple correct strategies for traffic building. My strategy is focused on building word-of-mouth traffic more than on search engine traffic. So I sacrifice a bit of SEO in order to do more HEO (Human Experience Optimization). If you make search engines happy, you get more search engine referrals. If you make humans happy, you get more word-of-mouth referrals. Both are important of course, and there’s a lot of overlap between these two strategies (they complement each other nicely). You can slant your blogging habits one way or the other within a certain range and still achieve great results.