Quantity over Quality?
while looking on the interwebs i stumbled upon this blog post by Eric Kintz, in which he talks about the amount of blog posts you make on a day. and whether it affects if readers stay interested or loose interest with your blog. Would to many postings over whelm them or to few seem like you aren’t a serious poster. He strikes some interesting arguments on the subject.
i find this point he makes interesthing:
#4 - Frequent posting is actually starting to have a negative impact on loyalty: Seth Godin (a frequent blogger) has a very interesting theory. According to him, RSS fatigue is already setting in. With too many posts, you run the risk of losing loyal readers, overwhelmed by the clutter you generate. Readers will start to tune off if your blog takes up too much of their time
seeing as when i get behind my computer in the morning i spend a great deal of time reading through allot of news posts, and it takes a good portion of my morning to stay up to date with the things that interest me. Allot of time seems to be wasted by things that aren’t that relevant or feel like a deja vu.
some other interesting points he made are:
#2 – Traffic is irrelevant to your blog’s success anyway– Unless you specifically target bloggers like Bruce, are a blogging consultant or blog about your latest book, traffic is irrelevant to you. What matters most is whether you are reaching your target audience (which may be narrow and focused), not necessarily how many people read your posts. Engaging with the audience you want to have a relationship with is a much smarter strategy than posting frequently
this seems logical cause unless your depending on ad revenue for money, you have loads of visitors that don’t really care about your content anyway but due cost you bandwidth.
Thats why you might not be happy if your post ends up on the front page of Digg or Slashdot sure you get allot of people massivly visiting your site but that usually only keeps active for a day at most and does give problems to genuine interested readers, cause of the slow loading site cause your web host will be over loaded, etc.
#9 - Frequent posting creates the equivalent of a blogging landfill – According to Technorati, only 55% of bloggers post after 3 months of existence. The pressure of the first months to write frequently certainly contributes to people abandoning their blogs. Is that in the blogosphere’s best interest to have a third of its participants frustrated by their initial efforts?
this to me seems interesting as i am a starting blogger as well but i wonder if you write about stuff your passionate about and interested in and write about it cause you can save it for yourself to later read back on. Would it then become less tiring to write blog posts?
if you like to read up on the rest of the points he make go here
