One question that is being asked often in the blogosphere is the question of how often a blog should be updated. We all want working formulas and at the same time we also want to please our audience.
Even though there is no set formula for updating a blog there are some factors you can consider that will help you get the best from your blog in terms of updating it. This post will be giving you some tips on how often you should be updating your blog.
Know Your Audience
There is no fixed formula or rule on updating a blog and how often you update a blog depends majorly on your audience. Some blog types require you to be updating your blog several times a day while other blogs will do well with you updating your blog once a week. Some audience are okay with you updating your blog everyday while it can be really frustrating to others so it doesn’t matter how capable you are as a blogger, your audience will go a long way to determine how often your blog should be updated. Two typical examples are the technology niche and the personal development niche, you can succeed in the technology niche by writing very short articles several times a day but you will have more chances of success in the personal development niche by updating once or twice in a week with a more detailed article.
The Length of the Article
Another important factor you should consider when deciding how often you will be updating your blog is the length of the article. It can be really boring to your readers if you keep writing several thousand words article everyday but they will be far okay with two or three of these in a week.
Your Capacity as a Blogger
It is also very important to know how effective you can be when trying to choose how often you will be updating your blog because consistency is very important and should be factored in when you’re doing anything as a blogger. If you plan to be updating your blog with longer articles once in a week and you suddenly stopped updating for a month your users will have the impression that you’ve stopped blogging or that something is wrong with you so they might stop reading your blog. It doesn’t matter how often you want to be updating your blog or how long you want your articles to be, always make sure you’re consistent with it.
I've been pondering this question lately. I'm thinking one per week should be reasonable for my website.
I don't want to come across as just churning out crap for SEO reasons, not that I'd have that problem since I can't even come up with one post a month at the moment.
Thinking up stuff to write is quite hard for me.
Thanks,
Kris.
I agree with you that consistency is important when it comes to publishing new posts on a blog, but I have difficulty with this. Probably the main reason I have this problem is that I want each post to be unique and compelling and not "just another post", so I often will research the subject and make sure I'm not writing the same thing as somebody else. Hopefully, eventually, I'll be able to get faster at this and post more often.
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I agree with you that consistency is important when it comes to publishing new posts on a blog, but I have difficulty with this. Probably the main reason I have this problem is that I want each post to be unique and compelling and not "just another post", so I often will research the subject and make sure I'm not writing the same thing as somebody else. Hopefully, eventually, I'll be able to get faster at this and post more often.
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I agree with you that consistency is important when it comes to publishing new posts on a blog, but I have difficulty with this. Probably the main reason I have this problem is that I want each post to be unique and compelling and not "just another post", so I often will research the subject and make sure I'm not writing the same thing as somebody else. Hopefully, eventually, I'll be able to get faster at this and post more often.
My recent post 3 Tips for Adding Interest to Your Blog Posts
I agree with you that consistency is important when it comes to publishing new posts on a blog, but I have difficulty with this. Probably the main reason I have this problem is that I want each post to be unique and compelling and not "just another post", so I often will research the subject and make sure I'm not writing the same thing as somebody else. Hopefully, eventually, I'll be able to get faster at this and post more often.
My recent post 3 Tips for Adding Interest to Your Blog Posts
I agree with you that consistency is important when it comes to publishing new posts on a blog, but I have difficulty with this. Probably the main reason I have this problem is that I want each post to be unique and compelling and not "just another post", so I often will research the subject and make sure I'm not writing the same thing as somebody else. Hopefully, eventually, I'll be able to get faster at this and post more often.
My recent post 3 Tips for Adding Interest to Your Blog Posts
I agree with you that consistency is important when it comes to publishing new posts on a blog, but I have difficulty with this. Probably the main reason I have this problem is that I want each post to be unique and compelling and not "just another post", so I often will research the subject and make sure I'm not writing the same thing as somebody else. Hopefully, eventually, I'll be able to get faster at this and post more often.
My recent post 3 Tips for Adding Interest to Your Blog Posts
I've only just started a blog and I'm trying ot update i was trying to update it daily but I've quickly learned that this is a little much with a full time job too. I think I'm going to focus on getting three good articles completed a week. that seems like a fair amount to me.
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I totally agree that in order for you to get good ranking from google, you need to consistently update your blog with new posts. I also have problem doing it as it involves a lot of your time but there are other ways you can use like Elance.com you can sent them a job and there are writers out there can research your topic and write good quality articles for you.
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Well this is very helpful. Still I wanted to know upon updating a blog, should we submit a new sitemap again and again?
thanks,
Nabeel
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Hi Onibalusi,
I agree that consistency is important to blogging,
otherwise rankings in the search engines will be
more complicated.
Thanks, your article brought light to some aspects
on how often to update blog, depending on the niche…
More power,
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You hit the nail right on the head! Consistency is the key!
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I have always heard at least once a day for google to take someone seriously as a blogger, and of at least 250 words each post. lately, I have been trying video blogs because that changes the routine a little.
i post 1 to 3 articles a week. The most posts I write are between 500 and 900 words. I'm thinking about writing some shorter articles too. Thanx for the interesting info (again).
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