Blogging consistency and keeping a regular blog posting frequency

One of the most important factors in growing your blog readership is consistency. You must publish new articles regularly or at least in a consistent schedule.

Most bloggers start well. After creating the blog, they have a lot of enthusiasm and they write articles daily in first couple of weeks. But after this honeymoon period, majority of bloggers fail to keep a regular and consistent blogging schedule.

This results in their blog losing the momentum, and it slows down the growth and decreases the potential of their blog.

Not updating your blog frequently gives an image of a dead place. It gives a bad impressions if a visitor comes back and finds no updates have taken place in some time and it decreases the chance of visitor subscribing to the RSS feed or commenting.

Why it is important to be consistent in blogging

• Brings a stream of traffic and comments
• Gives readers a reason to check back often
• Gives visitors a reason to subscribe to the blog RSS feed
• Builds trust and dependability
• More opportunities for buzz about your content in the social media
• More opportunities for inbound links to your blog
• Search engines crawl and index blogs that are updated regularly more frequently
• More content means increased chance of getting search engine traffic from different keywords

How you can improve your blogging consistency

• Use WordPress TimeStamp feature to schedule blog posts
• Save your article ideas as drafts so you easily can have a topic when you need to write a new blog post
• Invite your readers to write guest posts for your blog
• Write blogs about topics that interest you and that you have passion for

What is the perfect blogging schedule?

The perfect blogging schedule that optimizes your blog potential and maximizes its growth would most probably be to post one new article every day. Your readers would come back daily, you would have potential to create a lot of buzz and Google would love you.

Your own blogging schedule depends on how much time you have and how much inspiration you have though. I find publishing a new article every second day works best for me personally at this point in time.

Some bloggers publish new articles daily, some do it even several times a day. Anything less than publishing two new articles per week is probably going to have a negative effect on your blog’s growth potential and will slow down its progress.