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I coin one rule for blogging: However you do it keep it consistent. If you do monthly long reads keep doing that. If you do short posts 5 times per day keep mak

by 6510 6y ago

I coin one rule for blogging: However you do it keep it consistent. If you do monthly long reads keep doing that. If you do short posts 5 times per day keep making them 5 times per day (its better to drop to 4 and make a buffer that auto publishes than to skip days) Forum discussions can be a mess of excess and ot information. You could easily cut and paste questions you've answered. (Sometimes modify them to fit how generic your answer is) Then copy paste your answer under it as well as useful bits from other peoples response. Put links to topics and/or profiles with everything you "steal" to promote the forum. Make tools to automate the process. You don't want to be muleing clip board back and forwards. Just dump it into a post and save the draft if it isn't finished in 15 seconds. Again: be consistent at it. If there is one post per day the visitor should be able to visit 1 time per day and find it. If it isn't there for 1-3 days - why bother?

nicbou 6y ago
I disagree with this advice. I write articles when there is a need for them. Sometimes they are 2 months apart, and sometimes 2 days. I can't plan the problems I'll face and solve in advance. I also spend a lot of time updating old articles with new information, and that new information trickles in at random intervals. Most of your readers will find you through Google, when they're trying to solve a specific problem. They won't subscribe to your content or return without a specific goal in mind, so consistency is not that important.
- 6510 6y ago
  Could say that is still consistent. If your articles arise out of a need then that is the formula. What you could do is delay the publication if there is no urgency. I found a really cool blog one time where the author was writing a book spread out over 4 blog posts (or so) that he kept updating. His daily new posts briefly described the updates he made. It was a cool rss subscription for me. I certainly didn't visit his book every day but his updates gave a sense of involvement and I ended up reading the "same" articles multiple times both for the content and to see the progress. Had he just updated the postings I would never have returned.

by 6510 6y ago

nicbou 6y ago

I disagree with this advice. I write articles when there is a need for them. Sometimes they are 2 months apart, and sometimes 2 days. I can't plan the problems I'll face and solve in advance. I also spend a lot of time updating old articles with new information, and that new information trickles in at random intervals. Most of your readers will find you through Google, when they're trying to solve a specific problem. They won't subscribe to your content or return without a specific goal in mind, so consistency is not that important.

6510 6y ago
Could say that is still consistent. If your articles arise out of a need then that is the formula. What you could do is delay the publication if there is no urgency. I found a really cool blog one time where the author was writing a book spread out over 4 blog posts (or so) that he kept updating. His daily new posts briefly described the updates he made. It was a cool rss subscription for me. I certainly didn't visit his book every day but his updates gave a sense of involvement and I ended up reading the "same" articles multiple times both for the content and to see the progress. Had he just updated the postings I would never have returned.