Your Blog, Your Choice

By Dimitry Dowzhenko

Now that your blog is up and running you need to carefully analyze what you are going to deliver for your readers. Here are a few pointers that might be helpful.

Quality

This has everything to do with how much traffic you are going to attract. Whether you will have thousands visiting your site or whether none will want to take a look at what you have written will all depend on the quality of your writing contents. Plagiarizing or using information from other sites is a very cheap way to update your blog. Make your target audience satisfy with original fresh and controversial posts that will change the way people look at things or do things.

Length

You must also take in to consideration the average length of your posts. Much of this has to do with the type of audience you are reaching out to.

By inserting search polls in to your web you will be able to get a general idea of your targeted audience and the length of your post has to differ with whom you cater for. By taking these factors in to consideration you will be more equipped to decide the length of your posts.

Frequency

Sometimes it might be bothering you how often you should be updating your blog to keep your readers interested. Of course frequency would depend on your niche, what you write about. As an example if you are writing about an interesting incident about a celebrity which seems to be dragging on, like a divorce case, you will need to keep your readers updated on a daily basis, more or less sometimes twice a day. Other scenario is that you have a blog in which you share odd news stories and funny videos with your visitors. Do you think you would have strong reader loyalty if you only posted something new a few times per week? Probably not. Why? Because with as many strange things that get be expected to change rapidly. A blog focusing on something such as this would probably make multiple posts per day.

Think about your subject matter and your audience, then decide on a frequency that works best for you. The important part is that once you make a decision- stick with it! Nothing confuses your readers more than making sporadic posts.

Consistency

Many blog owners want to make that great first impression, so they'll be posting tons of really valuable self-written content. Sometimes after a few weeks, you'll notice the quality and frequency of the posts start to decline. Great self-written articles begin to be replaced by pulls from different RSS feeds. All of a sudden, posting YouTube videos seems much easier than coming up with new material.

In the end, you will fare much better with 50 loyal, regular visitors than you will with 500 random one-time-only visitors. Be consistent with whatever you do on your blog. Otherwise, you will just confuse your visitors and they'll go someplace else.

Now there are blog automation software such as http://www.blogwarriorelite.com to help you to keep your blog regularly updated with a frequency to your liking.

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