How often should I write to my blog?

One of the most common questions among bloggers is how often you should write new blog posts. There is no hard and fast answer to this - it very much depends on the nature of the topic you are blogging about and how quickly news happens. For example, if you are operating a news blog, you may need to update your blog several times a day to keep feeding your users with the latest news, whereas if you are running a corporate blog, one post a month to update on major developments should be enough.

Therefore, you should consider the goals of your blog, the demands of your readers and your own time constraints to help you understand how often you should create new content.

It goes without saying that the more articles you publish to your blog the better - as long as those are of sufficent quality, which is definitely more important than quantity. Readers love fresh content, so writing new articles on a regular basis will encourage your readers to visit your site more frequently, as well as generating new links and traffic sources for your site.

However, you should not sacrifice quality by turning out poor or unhelpful articles, as this will turn readers off from reading your other articles if they feel they have wasted their time reading that one.

Blog posts don’t need to be long - you can certainly populate your site with a mixture of short news posts and more in depth articles, so keep this in mind. Sometimes a quick blog post may not seem like much, but if it has quality information in it then it does add value to the user.