Consistent Blogging
As many of you may know I have not been a very good blogger of late. The reasons were personal; I wanted to but had a few personal hurdles in the way. The problems do persist but not as heavily as before.
My fear was that all would be lost upon my return. However I am grateful to find the damage was much less than I feared. Sure my direct traffic has fallen but my subscriber base has grown and incoming links have kept steady.
So I have to question the wisdom of rhythmic blogging. Does it really matter? To some degree it has to be at the very least a consideration. But for me blogging is much more of a hobby, not a main source of income.
So blogging in a rhythmic fashion will never work for me, and now that I know it’s not a necessity I can take solace and only produce shiny content of which I can be proud to show.
So the question is who is rhythmic blogging right for? I would say not many bloggers can really say they feel proud of every piece the write. You must ask yourself: Do my posts offer something to the online community worth adding?
As I blogger, I myself had fallen into the belief that to grow my readership I had to pump out content in a daily basis. But I was wrong! What I wished I had grasped before now is that content is only king when the content is worthy of reading.
So my promise to you is no more waste of digital online ink from me. If I have something to contribute I will do my best to make it worthy of your time.
Thank you for your time, please feel free to add your thoughts I look forward to hearing from you.
David,
Glad to see you are back. I might have a slightly different take on the rhythmic blogging concept. If you command subscribership like Chris Pearson, then a post a month would work, but for the rest of us, (as Seth Godin would say) useful, updated, and unique content is the way to go. I totally agree on the part where you say that content has to be worth reading, but lets not forget that features like asides posts (which can be easily added to your site) would entertain the flow of direct traffic to your site too, something to consider. Have a happy new year!