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brip blap » Blog Archive » midweek linkfest — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:39:57 +0000

[...] 8 "weekly roundup" type posts in the past week, so a big thanks to The Simple Dollar, Four Pillars, The Digerati Life, I’ve Paid For This Twice Already, Moolanomy, FIRE Finance, Cash Money [...]

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:58:11 +0000

CC – sounds like a plan!

Dasha – that’s a great point. I’m not sure where the five day / week standard came from but you’re right about content suffering sometimes. The problem is that your stats go down if you post less and although I told myself that stats wouldn’t matter…apparently they do!

Mike

By: Dasha

Dasha — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:35:47 +0000

I personally prefer bloggers who post whenever something good comes up rather than the obligatory daily posts. Of course I don’t mind daily posting- it’s just that with some bloggers it starts to feel like they are doing it because they are supposed to and the content suffers. No one person has that many interesting things to say, sorry! Maybe this is because I read mostly crafting blogs, which are very sporatic (there’s not much to post unless you made/saw something, and that does not happen every day!). Basically, as everyone above said, Do what works for you

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:28:50 +0000

I’ve done both: I’ve taken 2 weeks off without blogging at least twice and pre-posted once.

I don’t think readership suffered that much and came back to original levels in a week or two. However, I didn’t like pre-posting that much because I didn’t get a chance to read the comments. Next time, I want time off, I’ll ask you guys to be blog sitters

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:00:22 +0000

Thanks CD – I was originally going to do what you did on your holiday but I’ve since decided to just not post for the week.

Mike

By: Canadian Dream

Canadian Dream — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:24:13 +0000

Mike,

It is your blog, so do what you like. Another option is to prewrite posts and then have someone else do feedback on comments while your gone.

I had FT cover my blog for a week and I left him a pile of posts to use. It seemed to work out rather well.

Just an idea,
Tim

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:30:13 +0000

I have posts ready for this week too but I never have more than one week at a time ready.

Mike

By: paidtwice

paidtwice — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:22:25 +0000

I only have one of tomorrow’s posts done and the other two half done… a week ahead lol is a pipe dream.

I do have some topics picked out… heh.

By: FourPillars

FourPillars — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:53:25 +0000

BB – you’re right, it really depends on how ambitious you are about your blog.
I can’t believe how much the big blogs post – some of them do three posts a day!
And yes, I definitely love the blogging.

Mr. C. – are you always that far ahead? I try to stay up to a week ahead but sometimes I don’t have anything in the kitty.

Thanks, and I’m always happy to provide feedback..and more feedback..and even more feedback!

Mike

By: Brip Blap

Brip Blap — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:29:16 +0000

I’ll trade guest posts with anyone, btw. I think that’s part of the cool flow of information here in the blogosphere.

I hear all of your objections to my thinking that you need to post daily and I still think if you are trying to BUILD versus MAINTAIN you need to post daily. I agree people who have already found you will stick around, but I’m talking about the people on the fence. Look at most of the biggest, most successful blogs and you’ll see 7-days-a-week content.

I don’t know, at the end of the day. I am planning on posting every single day – as long as I can. If I miss a day, I won’t sweat it, but I don’t plan to.

Gotta tell you, the biggest thing for me is that most days you have to drag me away from blogging – it’s just too much fun!