Comments on: How Many Times Should You Blog?

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[...] And not to leave out my Web TV friends – Social Media expert Shama Kabani of Shama.TV recently talked about How Many Times Should You Blog? [...]

By: Chris Zdunich

Chris Zdunich — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:22:26 +0000

Frequency is important to establish your flagship content as long as the content is relevant and timely to your audience so they keep coming back.

By: Armaghan Saqib

Armaghan Saqib — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:50:42 +0000

I post daily on my blog. I always planned to post twice a week but could never keep it up. And I must share you this tip; Posting daily becomes easier after couple of weeks than any other schedule.

Here is a short post which I wrote to tell how you can blog daily.

http://saqibawan.posterous.com/every-one-can-be-a-blogger-and-can-write-dail

Quality might go down initially but will eventually go up due to practice and you might become a super blogger.

By: Janet Vasil

Janet Vasil — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:52:26 +0000

I started out two years ago trying to post 3 times a week. My second year I went to twice a week. Now I’ve reached 200 posts and as my business moves in another direction, twice a week is sometimes a challenge. As you said,it all depends on your goals for the blog. What I’ve enjoyed recently is fleshing out some of my posts for a book I’m working on. Re-purposing the content in various ways can make the time spent blogging doubly worthwhile.

By: Caroline Pickett

Caroline Pickett — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:25:08 +0000

Thanks, Shama, interesting tv post today! I feel like 3x a week for blogging is about right. However, I get a lot of feeds where the Power bloggers really post everyday. I know Chris Brogan, for example, just posted recently that he notices a significant downturn in traffic if he even misses 1 day. So I think if you want to keep a “top of mind” presence online, you really need to blog pretty often, and at least 3x a week, but also quality is important too. I wouldn’t start blogging everyday and producing mediocre posts just for the sake of posting. That would probably backfire and cause you to lose subscribers.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:45:00 +0000

Hi Shama! Rick here, the fellow who asked the question (and a fellow marketing consultant/coach). Great answer, and it is similar to what I also tell my clients. The key is to develop a strategy and goals. A “body of work” is important at first as you suggest, but then “blog when you have something to say” is a good rule of thumb.

Whatever you do, don’t abandon your blog. It’s almost like saying, “hey, we’re going out of business!”

I visited with a client prospect today who’s last blog post was in January! They immediately hung their head in shame saying, “We know, we know!”

I’ll bet they post a new entry within the next week!

Thanks,Shama. You do great work and I’m a fan here in Austin, Texas. Now I better take a dose of my own medicine and update my blog, Marketing With Moxie here: http://bit.ly/9k7N6u

Hmmm. Can you guess what my topic is?!

By: Todd Jones

Todd Jones — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:51 +0000

I have been blogging at my college football blog (Collegefootballtopten.com) since 2006 and I still have people linking to and finding articles I wrote in 2007 and 2008. “Early and often” is a good phrase to remember when you just start out. I think you are right Shama, you blog as often as you can to establish “flagship” content.

I am working on rounding up my “flagship” content at Collegefootballtopten.com, but I am working to build “flagship” content at toddejones.net.

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:59:22 +0000

Thank you I found this info very valuable!

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Tina