I have a fascination for viral networks and their parallel to epidemics. I recently…

blogging frequency is highly dependent on the type of blog that you carry. if you’re doing a creative or thought-provoking blog, then posting even once a week is great because you are sure to be dugg and quoted.

for tech blogs, it is very different. you need to be up to date DAILY. because tech blog readers wanna see that hardware come out fast. although some tech blogs do want to have some thought provoking stuff like in depth analyses and lists, coming up with ths will be very infrequent as tech tends to change fast.

Congrats for this article, you have one of the best follow up pieces to my post. I agree with many of the points you make, I was primarily reacting to the pressure to post every day for everybody independantly of your blog strategy. Thought you would enjoy my follow up post on the human face of blog traffic
Eric

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If I do a long, detailed comment, I will post about it on my own blog, so that people who like the way I think can check it out.

I’m also thinking about putting a link on my site to my del.ici.ous tag mycomments – that would show people a list of comments I had made on other blogs. That would be more useful than going back to my site now and saying ‘I just made a comment on Problogger’, unless the comment was much longer and more thought-out than this one.

I agree with the “Quality beats quantity” argument. Some places (like this one, whose job is to find useful tips) can get away with referring us to other places. I certainly could not – I don’t have enough of my own posts, and the referrals would look like padding.

Frequent blog posting for me is a good sign because I could see how much progress one blogger is having on certain projects (I do read some blogs that talk about personal projects) and if I see that one blog is inactive for a long time, I tend to look for other blogs that talk about similar matters.

I do agree that a regular frequency would be great. Especially if the person would only update once a week. Or if a blogger will go on a temporary hiatus, maybe he/she could put up a sticky post or a note on the sidebar about it so the readers will know what to expect. Or something like it.

If (as the post above mentioned) your niche was the World Cup, your posting frequency would likely increase around the time the event actually occurs. You’d surely have things to talk about at other times (training, prospects, etc) but I would think not as much.

In a tech niche, there probably is at least something worth talking about every day – with rare exceptions for certain narrowly focused segments, if you are a voice of authority for your tech niche, you should have something to say pretty frequently.

Politics? I can’t imagine that you wouldn’t be posting at least daily.

String theory? Maybe not so often :-)

And so on..

One of the reasons the world cup is so huge, is that it happens once in 4 years!

It seems an interval that’s just right for Major sporting events!

But what is the right interval for YOU, hey darren, there’s a suggestion for your next, group writing project!

Heck if you keep this up you’ll have to start a groupwriting blog!

One thing I believe for sure – don’t setup a pattern trying to gane the search engines or your readers. It will fail everytime and as time marches on, using tricks will never cut the mustard.