Again a good article. Consistency is very important. As we promote our projects we also need to add up content on a regular basis.

The problem I have with posting is simple. When I find something that I like, I want to post about it as soon as possible. Normally I don’t put out as much of a quality post as I should. Similarly, there will be often times I’ll post three, four, or five times in one day – and then I won’t post for the next two or three days. :-/ Not good…

But… this post and 10 Techniques I use to Go from 0 to 12,000 RSS Subscribers in Seven Months… post have given me some great ideas. I plan on making good use of those concepts.

Thanks so much Darren and Trent for those two posts! They’ll help me very much!!!

I usually find it annoying when a blogger writes a lot of posts in a single day. I used to subscribe to a popular technology-driven blog because they were posting upwards of 30+ posts a day!!! I use Google Reader to keep up with the blogs I read and I spent a good hour just reading the posts from this one blog – all from the same day!!!

At the other end of the spectrum, I am quickly turned off by bloggers who rarely post and give no explanation as to why. If I’m going to go more than a few days without posting, I always try to update my blog just to say I’m very busy and will get back to my regular posting schedule as soon as possible. At least this way people will know that I’m still alive, have not abandoned my blog and it’s just a temporary lapse in my blogging. I don’t know if my readers appreciate it, but I know I would.

Thanks again for the great post!

Great Article.

It is interesting that you used Gizmodo as an example. I tend to find that the big technology blogs rush to get as many posts up per day as they can. Some of these larger technology blogs are starting to forget what made them successful in the first place.

This has left a gap in the market for smaller blogs.

They don’t seem to worry about quality of content, I have a simple rule for my blog, if it’s a new gadget, or piece of technology or software that I find interesting it goes on my website, and I try to add my own personal perspective to it.

When you blog tech you have to give lots of news.
Take a look at techcrunch (in top50 on cnn). Lots of posts and they have 240k readers on RSS and this is mainly because they need to stay informed in the tech business life.

To be honest if ProBlogger would be posting 20 times a day with the same quality it does now, if I could I would subscribe 100 times. It would be so much information.

Many can do quality and quantity at the same time. Why do all the people need to say “I’m making a long post instead of more short one”. Take a look at Michael Arlington : he did 6 articles today (so far). I would have to guess that’s his daily average. So let’s all stop saying we sacrifice quantity over quality. NO. This is our/your rhythm. That’s how we/you blog!

I’m going back to my blog now because this is something that can turn into a nice article! Cheers

That’s not to say I haven’t posted on teh weekend, just try not to.

Agreed. So much so I want to create a new stat, which is “posts read per reader per week.”

It isn’t enough to catalog the times people actually respond or linkback to posts, because I’ll go through hundreds of posts before I find one I want to comment on immediately. What makes looking for a real-time response even more problematic is that I and a few others I know will respond to a much older post someone wrote when other topics come up later, sometimes months or even years later.

The trick to knowing how much you might want to post, if you have no real feel for your audience, is to know how much they’re exploring the site, if they’re exploring it at all. If they’re enjoying what they see and seem to be wanting to respond to the logic governing your posts as a whole, then a few times a week might be the best. This may sound like a surefire strategy for having a small audience only, but there really shouldn’t be a reason why quality posts can’t attract a huge readership each time. It just so happens posting more tends to advertise your blog more.

I am tempted to say that posting more tends to narrow what blogging is. It seems to push blogging in a real-time, news-oriented direction. What if one wants to create an encyclopedia of personal, difficult knowledge obtained and grappled with over time?

I blog with several other people which allows better posts and more variety of topics. You don’t have to keep the pace of something new everyday.

The trend we saw like others I’ve read here is consistency. Get the reader to put you into their daily routine. We try to post Sunday-Friday morning before 9am.

Also a regular theme post people seem to come back to more often. Our site does a Weekend “It” List for locals. It’s almost always the best traffic day of the week.

One thing I’ve noticed is that if a blog is updated too often, I tend to unsubscribe from its RSS feed because I don’t have time to follow all the posts in that blog.

I like to follow a broad range of different blogs so as a reader to me it’s perfect to get one or two posts per blog per day so that in total I read about 30 good posts.

If you are blogging on politics, then there is a lot going on in the news to write about. If you are blogging about photography, it’s kind of up to you to come up with ideas for each post.

I’d be interested to see a graph outlining what the average number of posts is per niche.

i put quality over quantity. i want to keep my readers come back for more useful info for their hawaii vacation. of course, if we ‘little guys’ had the resources like problogger with many different authors eager to submit theirs posts, we could be meeting both goals…frequent posts at top quality. alas, not possible for us, i think. pua