Blog posting per day: 3 posts of 200 words or 1 post of 600 words?
By scheng1
@scheng1 (24650)
Singapore
May 6, 2009 2:58am CST
What do you think is better for our blogs? To update 3 times, each time upload a short post of 200 words or to update once and upload an article of 600 words?
Especially if you are using PLR articles and rewrite the articles, do you chop the articles into many smaller posts and upload at different times a day? Or do you upload the amended article just once a day at its full length?
Which method will generate more traffic?
3 responses
@ayameyokomi (638)
• Philippines
16 May 09
It is best to update every once in a while. Let's say every 2 to 3 days with a minimum of 500 or 600 words. :)
@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
17 May 09
Hi Ayemeyokomi, I'm getting very lazy, want to update just once a week, but with longer post of 1,000 words or more, and with high keyword density.
Writing 2 to 3 posts per week for one blog, means 4 to 6 posts for 2 blogs. That is a lot of writing, and selecting the topic takes time too. But 2 posts for 2 blogs per week is manageable. In this case, I wont suffer from burnout, can keep going for a long time.
@ayameyokomi (638)
• Philippines
17 May 09
Oh, we're the same friend! I'm also very lazy when it comes to posting entries.. But I used to be really active back then. Don't know what happened.. I probably lost interest in everyday blogging already.
@Charismatic_verma (32)
• India
9 May 09
3 posts of 200 words per day is more beneficial to get the traffic. The length of the post doesn't make any difference, the most important part of the blogging is that the content you are posting must be relevant to the topic and should be unique and useful for the visitors.
@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
6 May 09
I think a blog posting of 200 words is too short to be of real value, and therefore less interesting to your visitors. I would say the optimum length of a blog post is between 350 and 500 words. Within that word count, you can get plenty of information, but it would not be so long that the visitor would get fed up of reading and move on. You have to factor in that some people have limited attention spans.
The other consideration is writing flow. Once you have posted, you need a new topic or a new viewpoint. If you post 3 short items, that means that you have to think up an extra 2 angles for the other posts. I would say that, in this instance, quality is preferable to quantity.
@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
6 May 09
Hi Sandra, thanks for pointing out the reader's perspective.
Agree that the attention span of most readers are short. Even though I love to read novels of considerable length, I get impatient with reading long articles in blog.
At the time of posting this discussion, I was thinking more about SEO and crawling by search engine, forgotten to think about the readers.
