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A few days ago I asked a question on some of the forums that I post on.  The question was, “What are your blogging resolutions for 2009?”.  My plan was to take all the responses I got, and write a a post titled The Top Ten Blogging Resolutions for the New Year.  But I didn’t get 10 Resolutions, or even 5.  I got plenty of responses to my question, but almost everyone had the same resolution.  What to do?  Write a post on the Top One New Years Resolution for Bloggers? That doesn’t sound right!

Top New Year’s Resolutions For Bloggers

The one goal that everyone shared was to post  good content to their blog more regularly.  I suppose I could break that down into two New Year’s Resolutions.

1. Posting Regularly
2. Post more Original Content

I thought it was very interesting that no one said they were going to try and post daily, or weekly. Just regularly. So that led to my next question. How often should you post to your blog? The answer is, that all depends on who you ask.

How Often Should You Post To Your Blog?

Darren Rowse, in an old post on Problogger (2006) writes that you don’t want to post too often, because you can burn out your readers. Too much information in too short of a time leaves reader’s feeling that they can’t keep up.  But at the same time you want to post often enough to keep your reader’s engaged.  How much is too much? How often is often enough? According to Darren, that all depends on how long your posts are, what the topic of your blog is, and who your readers are!

More recently, Seth Godin on Seth Godin’s Blog writes that you

…don’t publish it unless it’s good, You don’t write more blog posts than you can support…

Then he goes on to agree with Darren, in that the ideal amount of posting depends upon your blog and your audience. Seth does say that one post per day seems to work best for him.

On the other end of the spectrum Andy McDonald at Blogging Tips says that according to Technorati, the top 100 bloggers post on average 5 or 6 times PER DAY! Andy says that for maximum traffic you should post a minimum of 3 times per week, but it will take 3 posts per day to see a noticeable surge in traffic, (Google likes frequent updating).

Post Regularly

It turns out that the bloggers who responded to my question had it right. Posting regularly is more important that how often you post. You need to find a posting schedule that works for your type of audience and your type of blog. You need to post quality content on a regular basis. So three times a week, or three times a day, it doesn’t really matter as long as you post excellent content regularly.

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