A common piece of advice which seems to revolve these days is the fact that quality is more vital than quantity. The old idea of blogging on a daily basis with frequent posts seems to be brushed aside over the notion of posting something quality once or twice a week. This means that posting few quality stuffs or working less can bring more people to your blog. However, this is too good to believe, the old idea seems to be still valid with little change, which states that you have to come with daily posts but with quality. Thus blogging daily with quality is a must for any stand along blog rather than once or twice in a week.
Pulling your readers: Generally the blog readers often visit the blog URL, thus what we see is very little crowd for most blogs. You as a blogger should aim for pulling your readers to your blog on a regular basis. Every time they visit your blog, they must see something interesting and new post to read giving them pleasure and positive back up. A majority of your readers would be visiting your blog from their work just to get a small break or distraction. Hence it’s important that you cater them what they need, in other words, the topics should interest them. So what you want to make your blog for your readers is pleasurable in their daily chores, something which should come as a default.
Why posting daily is important: So whenever your reader visits your blog and they see no new post, they are likely to be disappointed. The more this goes the lesser chance you have for them to return to your blog. Readers who visit your blog come according to your schedule, hence if they see this breaking more than one or two times, they are bound to find your substitute. So in order to make them coming on a regular basis, you need to keep the posting with a consistent schedule. And needless to say, that you put quality over it, since people now demand quality but with quantity. This however, may not be applicable for blogs which depend on SEO traffic; since they merely answer the search based phrases and is meant for traffic and not readers.
The frequency of postings: The frequency of your posting would depend to some extent to the kind of site you have for your readers. There are couple of standard blogging frequencies which includes less than once per week, once a week, three times per week (Monday/Wednesday/Friday – schedule), Five times per week (Monday to Friday) and lastly multiple times per day. Among these the last two options are considered to be the best and standard way of blogging. These help the readers to stay connected on a regular quality contents from the blogger.
Final Word: Considering either of the two and leaving the other can hamper the readers’ population over your blog. Hence it’s imperative that you maintain a good balance between the two. Quality is a must but when comes to blogging it should come with quantity. Readers coming over the blog even for junks these days want to see a substantial level of quality in it. Having better content means getting more traffic and readers, so with regular and good postings you can convert your traffic into readers.
About the author: Alia Haley is very passionate when it comes to blogging and writing. She is a gadget freak and loves to write on technology. Her articles include various aspects associated to tech help and currently she is working on a blog on tech games and Urban Design.
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Nice tutorial.For me both quality and quantity is important and I think it is a quality of a good blogger to handle both things in a balance way,Thanks for sharing this post with us.
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Both Quality and Quantity matters .
I also personally agree with Quality part but the truth is if you wont give them quantity they might not return back to get quality.
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I think that quality is more important than quantity. Every page of the blog is like a brand ambassador for the blog and its important that every page attempts to make a reader to take some action – email subscription, subscribing to their reader, etc. It will happen only if a blog is populated with quality content.
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I think the quality is more important than quantity, What’s we write describe our blog/web. But it’s all depend on what blog/web category we are on. For example for software update category reader don’t expect a nice article all they want is how to get the software, in this case I think quantity is more important than quality. CMIIW
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I think it is important to maintain a balance between quality as well as quantity of posts, since readers most of the time feel bored if they do not find new posts but at the same time they do not come to our blog to read boring posts. I try to maintain a balance between both at my blog
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Hi Alia!
This is an easy one – absolutely quality! Everyone can write mediocre articles using PLR but those who spend time on writing brilliant content are getting much more traffic and links back. I agree on all your four points. Keeping up one post per day can be ‘easier said than done’ and many new bloggers lose interest in blogging because of the burden they place on their shoulders.
Finding the balance may well be the key point for success.
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Like Nick said… Anyone can publish a new blog post every day and have thousands of articles about junk and nonsense. But most folks would rather visit a blog that posts an article once every few days if the content is useful and engaging to the reader.
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Thank you for these great tips! Both are equally important, if you’re going to make lots blogs, then make sure that the quality is not that “cheap”. Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing!
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Every page of the blog is like a brand ambassador for the blog and its important that every page attempts to make a reader to take some action – email subscription, subscribing to their reader, etc. Thanks for sharing this blog.
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For me it is always quality over quantity. Because poor quality content will send your blog or website down to ashes.
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That’s very well said, quality with quantity is what each blogger should look for. I will even add some point along with quality and quantity and that is freshness, Yes Google’s recent algorithmic changes has made it clear that now the blog with fresh news will be given more importance than blog posting old school ideas.
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It’s always the rule that quality should come first before quantity. But it would be better if both of them can be achieved. But I want to hear about your thoughts about the Google Fresher, where fresher contents are more favored by Google than the old ones.
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I applause for raising a wonderful question about frequency of post on standalone blog. According to my last 6 years of experience, quality of post will always win the battle but you also need to market your blog and need to attract more visitors through various channel like:
- Organic search
- Social Media
- Podcast
- Video marketing
- News releases
- Emails etc
Once you are having good user-base, frequency of post will not matter as compare to quality of information you are sharing.
As for me, so I think that quality should be on the first place! Because if we will post a great number of not qualitative articles every day, then our readers won’t definitely be interested in our blog and there is even an opportunity that they won’t visit it!
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A post every 2 days, i think it’s enough for a blog. A post usually required research, and some editing, and all these take times. I prefer to invest in finding a nice subject and creating a nice post, than actually posting multiple times a day.
I think it would be better if both of them can be achieved. But I want to hear about your thoughts about the Google Fresher, where fresher contents are more favored by Google
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I never heard of Google Fresher; do you have a link, Adam?
James, why is my comment copied by Adam Smith?
And oh about Google Fresher you should read this.
http://www.famousbloggers.net/google-fresher-or-caffeine-2-0-seo-news-you-need-to-know-about.html
It’s the ideal thing to achieve a balance between quantity and quality. However, truth is, it’s very difficult to achieve a balance between the two. Just for opinion sake, I still believe though that quality should be given more weight. A quality blog motivates readers more than anything else. It gives the latter a reason to come visit your blog. After you’ve established a good standard, quantity can come thereafter.
I thought that both quality and quantity are important.but mainly quality is essential.Nice post
I’m always struggling to get the balance right between quantity and quality. I produce articles for several blog so writing content is quite an overhead. For one of the blogs, I generally undertake a lot of analysis (using Excel), and so an article takes a long time to produce. So, I end up producing a blog post every two or three weeks. I think the optimum strategy depends on how easily a high-quality article can be produced. If it doesn’t take a lot of background research or analysis, then a blog every few days would be fantastic. If significant research is needed, then I would recommend quality over quantity. I think readers really appreciate it.
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For a standalone blog, quality is most important…that’s the reason why people follow and visit your site…The quality it promotes and the authenticity it provides…
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i also think it`s important to have a balance between quality and quantity. But if I had to choose I would go with quality.
Hey there,
i agree with Ricci and Pete. The Balance is so important. But for a standalone blog, quality is sooooooooooo important. I write my Posts with love and dedication, because i love my Blog.. its my Baby
Wish you all the Best and much Success with your Projects.
And thanks for Sharing your Tips and Opinions.
With Greetings from Germany
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As mentioned above quality should come first, because Google prefer fresh and quality content than the outdated. But if balance is maintained then better results can be get.
I would say that both of them should be prioritized. Quality is needed to make sure that readers would want to stay updated with you content and quantity is needed to make sure that readers will stay updated. Thanks for highlighting the importance of both!
When I have to choose between quality and quantity,i will Surely go for Quality as i believe in it.
It would better to achieved both quality and quantity to be able to get the balance result.
Interesting post. I find it a difficult balance. I used to write long in depth articles and project reports for a website but they were taking me a long time and was only posting every few weeks. I was attracting traffic but would have concerns that if they returned and there was no new posts they would be disappointed so I’m trying to write shorter articles now while maintaining the quality.
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Pretty cool post. I would have to say quality of the post matters more than the quantity. Who wants to read a boring blog or a blog that doesn’t seem up to date about the world. We want to see those quality content. Don’t get me wrong quantity also due play a part of having a successful blog. By having a quantity your reader can be updated. I rather be disappointed that you don’t have anything posted for couple of days than a low quality article.
Selecting between quantity and quality I would definitely give preference to quality.
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For me it’s the quality itself that works better for a stand alone blog.Because if you blog without sense,It’s just a waste of time.Thank you for sharing your post.
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There is no doubt that a successful blog needs equal amounts of quality and quantity. As a blogger, I know this is not always easy to achieve. We all need to research several topics and have a few in reserve for those ‘dry’ times. That being said, I sometimes find my self not blogging as frequently as I would like due to work and family commitments. So I am going to follow my own advice of doing the research, coming up with ideas, maybe even writing up a few articles and then rolling them out as needed.
Merry Christmas to all,
Poppy
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I think quality in more important than quantity.if you have a ability to tell your thing in short manner,than you can be a great blogger.because visitors have no time to read your large blogs.
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I prefer both quality and quantity but important point is quality. Thanks for sharing this Alia.
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