To keep ur content updated, I think better post at least 1 per day.
Kelvin,
http://whichuniversitybest.blogspot.com

Maybe it works for some of these bloggers, but not for all of them. Users must have time to assimilate new information. That’s why reducing post frequency works.

It’s because they get indexed by google faster and gets organic traffic from google alot sooner in more numbers. Thats why posting more is better.

You can look at io9.com first 24hours traffic here:
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s31io9sf&r=12

This is a revelation to me because in December I was posting 3 or 4 times per day to try to increase my traffic. The rate of posting meant that I was working crazy hours and I ended up spending the holidays sick like a dog. I did decide to cut back for 2008, but I was still aiming for one post per day with a couple quizzess per week.

Based on your findings, I will go back and revise my posting plans and perhaps, I’ll just bring it down to 5-7 posts per week.

That was very useful info.

Thanks!

Gisele
http://www.mybeautymatch.com

Techcrunh always post articles at that rate with huge turnover. Look at darren’s post count. He posts at the rate of 3-5 posts a DAY. Surely there is something he is doing right? And not all of them are even guest posts.

The fact remains, more posts brings more readers. This also depends on what kind of blog you have. If you talk about how to make money everyday, No one is going to read it, or you do freelancing on a regular basis. But this is not the “norm” and definately doesn’t apply to EVERYONE.

Especially if you have advertisers to keep happy. Lets be honest this is a blog about making money. And you will make money based on traffic, and your traffic will come, if you have contents for traffic to read; and you will have contents if you post more often. Simple logic

Skellie doesn’t have any advertisement in her blog, she makes money mostly from freelancing, and having huge amount of traffic to her blog is leasts of her concerns. Because she doesn’t have to make advertisers happy.

Try to ask darren to post 2-3 time a week of “featured posts” and see how he flips out.

Honestly. If you want a succesfull money making blog you need to have contents more often. But if you blog “just for fun” than we are not on the same page and this is definately not the blog for you.

Cheers,
pavs

I often feel that my site is at the end of a long tail, and there is not a plethora good 3rd party content readily available. As such, at least 75% of my content is original or from contributing writers. Fortunately, the subject of small shopping centers is of interest to many consumers as well as the industry groups, but the searches are about zippo so it’s definitely a push marketing effort and it starts with content of value.

What I don’t like about 2-4 posts a week is that the RSS feed boxes can look pretty skinny and I’m sure I lose subscribers who see that as well. I’d rather not backfill with junk; we ‘re very new and I think in time the model of content depth will pay off.

I have found out that this way I can get a ‘feel’ of when to publish a new post … ( This way of working is really handy if you don’t have a lot of time to write posts for your blog …) …

Lex

I like the idea that it’s not the quantity of posts, but the number of subscribers and quality that counts. I’m glad that we’re moving to advocating higher quality blogs rather than the “just get out there and do it” mayhem.