by admin on August 22, 2009
Blogging is serious work and a schedule would do you good especially if you have plans of making money through blogging or to dwelve in the realm of problogging. Having a blogging schedule would make sure that you are able to provide fresh blog content in a specific time frame.
Blog Post: More or Less?
This is one debacle that every blogger should solve before starting blogging. Blogging content should not be too much or too little in fact, it should be just enough. Blogs that have a lot of blog posts in a day would be easily picked up by search engines but if this trend does not continue on for the rest of the week, the chances of being picked up will become slimmer. At the same time, this goes with blogging in inconsistent schedules like just updating their blog weekly. So if this kind of blogging habit is not effective, what would be the best practice?
The Compromise
I personally believe that having a blogging schedule that would both meet the content requirements as well as the posting frequency requirement would be the best approach regarding this matter. A blogging schedule would help the bloggers in terms of determining when to post in their blogs and also to provide the readers of your blog on when to expect new content. Having blog posts at least everyday would be a great practice and having more than one blog post a day would be a greater accomplishment.
In regards to the content or the length of you blog post, it depends on what length you are more comfortable with. If you want to have just an update everyday, having a blog post of just 100 words per day would be ok. However, if you want to have more concise content for you blog especially if you are aiming for a problogging disposition, you have to have more than a 100-word blog post. Having a word count of at least 300 words and above would ensure that you would have a rich blog post regarding that topic. However, if you have more than 1,000 word count you better think about it or do some editing before moving forward with that blog post. Blog readers would more or less get tired of reading that specific blog post because it would be too long in their eyes.
Having a blogging schedule, just like in any schedule would ensure that there is a specific time that you would be focusing on and updating your blog posts. Some people might find having a blogging schedule constricting their creative juices but in reality this is not the case. A timely approach in blogging is necessary in order to be updated and be ahead of the game in problogging.
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by admin on August 22, 2009
Quality… this is something that should be present in everything that we do and yes, this also pertains to blogging particularly professional blogging.
Writing content for your blog is not that easy especially when you are concentrating more on problogging. There are already a lot of tips in blogging written but I really find this blog post written by Darren Rowse a must before starting out in the blogging world.
Quality is essential to every blog post and regardless of how many or how frequent you post, if it does not contain any quality then all of your efforts would be for nothing. Ensuring quality blog post is not that hard but having a checklist or guidelines would be a lot of help in checking that you have a quality blog post.
Here are some guidelines which could help you:
Is it relevant?
In case you are wondering, relevance means importance and this should be reflective of the content that you are writing in your blog. If you feel yourself that the topic that you are writing is not important then do not even dream to continue. If it is not important to you personally, how can you make it important to other people?
Is it up-to-date?
Being the first ones to cover the newest and freshest content is definitely an advantage if you are aiming to be of importance in problogging. Nobody wants to read yesterday’s news therefore you have to make constant effort to ensure that you are constantly up to date with the news and issues that you are covering.
Can I relate to it personally?
One of the things that could make your blog stand out from the rest is the way that you make the topic or issue personalize through your blogging style. Discussing a topic through facts is ok and standard but making sure that you put your mark or your stamp in it through blogging makes you unique in the world of professional blogging. Personality is evident in professional blogging and you should therefore know how to make use of it for your own blogging advantage.
Anyway, what I have presented are just some basic guidelines or questions that would help you as you go along in terms of managing your blog content. There are still other aspect or factors that needs to be considered so feel free to make your own list for ensuring quality in blogging.
As mentioned, quality is really essential in professional. It doesn’t matter if you have a very attractive blog site if you are not producing quality-wise content in your blog. The essence of a blog is still the content and therefore, this should be your focal point when doing professional blogging.
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