Improve your Blog - 4 - Post Length & Frequency are Important?

The hardest thing to do for a blogger is to update as often as possible their blog. Very often the passion for the topics could not be enough, because you have to spend all time for the commitments and contingencies of life so you don’t have more time to dedicate to your blog.

Most people think that the ideal frequency to publish a post is daily. is that true? Is it necessary, therefore, to write as many posts as possible in the shortest possible time?

It’s certainly true that a not updated blog will never be a successful blog and perhaps will be a dead blog. In any case, the content unique is most important thing. That’s really the target blogger. Quantity is nothing without quality.

Another factor is how long must be a post. I don’t think length is a very important factor for a blog. In fact, it can be very variable and it is certainly related to the topic you want to treat. For example, a “tips & tricks” or a “How To” could be very short, on the contrary a tutorial, for example, speaking about a programming language, could be very long.

Searching on the Internet with google you can find very different answer to these questions. Here you can find a John Chow post about this topic. You can read a different view of the Eric Kintz here. Are there some ideas in common? That remains is to experiment and form your own opinion.

My personal idea is that Length and Frequency are two secondary factors closely related to the Content. Bloggers that deal with more complex issues, like this blog, will have more difficulty in maintaining a constant frequency, but this should not be discouraged if you have the ability to write interesting content. Personally I’ve chose to publish no more than one post per week. To make life easier, I decided to write not only complex post, such as Java or computer science topics, but also simpler and shorter post where I express my point of view. I thought then to design this series of posts about the steps that I am following to improve my blog and make it successful.

Obviously I don’t know if this way is the right choice and if this blog will never become a successful blog like John Chow, but in any case the most important thing is fun

Good luck to me and to you all