More Single-Blog Pages Or More Blogs?
One of the debates currently ongoing in the blogosphere are questions relating to posting frequency. Should you post lots of short entries per day, or fewer longer entries. Should you focus all of your writing to a single blog, or branch out into several topics?
These are important questions that you have to ask yourself. Your answer may be different than another bloggers. For me, I enjoy freelance writing. I've been doing it for over 20 years, some of it professionally - including designing and co-authoring one book - and some of it in local weekly magazines, or in my own magazine.
Transitioning to blogs and online articles has not been a giant leap for me. On a good day, I can write 10-15 quality, medium-length blog entries, or 5-8 longer articles. I have no doubt I could regularly write 20 short posts daily.
However, I doubt I could do all of this for a single blog or single topic. I am very much influenced by my muse, even for non-fiction writing. So on a good day, I'll write entries for 5-6 unrelated blogs.
Offline, in a good word processing program, I could probably write an additional 5-10 web programming tutorials daily because of my experience in computer programming. However, this type of writing requires testing of source code, special formatting of source code. Some blogging platforms require specal handling of said code. This reduces my productivity enormously.
That said, despite having numerous blogs, most of them have been dormant for a while, while I struggle to come to a decision about which advanced blogging platform I'd like to move to from Blogger.com: WordPress (easy install and configuration), Drupal (very rich feature set), or a custom solution (all the features I'll ever want). Blogger.com is fine for some of my blogs, but woefully lacking for others.
Much of my focus lately has been on a small handful of blogs (some of which belong to other people). However, in any given month, I may tend to a dozen blogs and a few websites. Now, if I'm not writing regularly to some of these blogs, should they even be set up as blogs?
That's a difficult question to answer. Darren Rowse talks about the importance of regular posting (links below). Steve Pavlina talks about how important good content is for building a high-traffic website (or blog).
These guys are masters of quality content and high traffic. I agree with their advice. It's always been my intent to write several quality, lengthy articles on a daily basis. That's the ideal situation, of course. But intent doesn't always translate to reality. And I've neither posted frequently nor tried to find contributors, thinking that I have nothing to offer them but revenue share.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with maintaining some weekly journals, instead of daily. But when you don't post at least once weekly, then your blog tends towards becoming a zomblog (zombie blog), and should probably only be a regular website. So, that means asking myself some questions:
If you are trying to juggle numerous blogs, and feeling that their quality is slipping, determine which of the four options above might be the best course, or come up with some other choices. Your answer, of course, will depend upon your own goals and intents.
Links/ Sources: Steve Pavlina - How to Build a High-Trafic Site; Darren Rowse - How to Make Your Millions Through Blogging???
(c) Copyright: 2006-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
Technorati Tags: blogspinner, blogging, pro blogging, multi blogs, content, writing
These are important questions that you have to ask yourself. Your answer may be different than another bloggers. For me, I enjoy freelance writing. I've been doing it for over 20 years, some of it professionally - including designing and co-authoring one book - and some of it in local weekly magazines, or in my own magazine.
Transitioning to blogs and online articles has not been a giant leap for me. On a good day, I can write 10-15 quality, medium-length blog entries, or 5-8 longer articles. I have no doubt I could regularly write 20 short posts daily.
However, I doubt I could do all of this for a single blog or single topic. I am very much influenced by my muse, even for non-fiction writing. So on a good day, I'll write entries for 5-6 unrelated blogs.
Offline, in a good word processing program, I could probably write an additional 5-10 web programming tutorials daily because of my experience in computer programming. However, this type of writing requires testing of source code, special formatting of source code. Some blogging platforms require specal handling of said code. This reduces my productivity enormously.
That said, despite having numerous blogs, most of them have been dormant for a while, while I struggle to come to a decision about which advanced blogging platform I'd like to move to from Blogger.com: WordPress (easy install and configuration), Drupal (very rich feature set), or a custom solution (all the features I'll ever want). Blogger.com is fine for some of my blogs, but woefully lacking for others.
Much of my focus lately has been on a small handful of blogs (some of which belong to other people). However, in any given month, I may tend to a dozen blogs and a few websites. Now, if I'm not writing regularly to some of these blogs, should they even be set up as blogs?
That's a difficult question to answer. Darren Rowse talks about the importance of regular posting (links below). Steve Pavlina talks about how important good content is for building a high-traffic website (or blog).
These guys are masters of quality content and high traffic. I agree with their advice. It's always been my intent to write several quality, lengthy articles on a daily basis. That's the ideal situation, of course. But intent doesn't always translate to reality. And I've neither posted frequently nor tried to find contributors, thinking that I have nothing to offer them but revenue share.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with maintaining some weekly journals, instead of daily. But when you don't post at least once weekly, then your blog tends towards becoming a zomblog (zombie blog), and should probably only be a regular website. So, that means asking myself some questions:
- Can I leave things as they are, posting only when I'm able to? If I can post at least weekly, this may be a reasonable temporary "solution".
- Can I increase posting frequency on each blog to at least 2-3 times weekly? To do this, however, there would probably have to be 48 hours in each day.
- Are my niche blogs too fragmented? If so, I could combine them into a single blog with categories. For example, I've already combined my four cooking blogs into a single website and blog, with categories. I am also in the process of taking my 8 or so web programming-related blogs and incorporating them into a single blog with categories. The result is that if I write 3-4 entries per day for one blog, it's probably going to draw more visitors in total than posting 1 entry per day for each of 4 blogs. Which hopefully is the right answer for the second question.
- Can I get rid of my zomblogs altogether? I could tranfer the content elsewhere (website) into some archives.
If you are trying to juggle numerous blogs, and feeling that their quality is slipping, determine which of the four options above might be the best course, or come up with some other choices. Your answer, of course, will depend upon your own goals and intents.
Links/ Sources: Steve Pavlina - How to Build a High-Trafic Site; Darren Rowse - How to Make Your Millions Through Blogging???
(c) Copyright: 2006-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
Technorati Tags: blogspinner, blogging, pro blogging, multi blogs, content, writing
