What began as one man’s quest turned into a group effort. 28 days ago, Scott Bishop made a pledge to his blog readers to post once a day for the entire month of February. At the end, he planned to post results based on a few goals he’d set out at the beginning of the month.
28 days and around 30 people later, it’s over. Not everyone made it. Some people wrote posts beforehand and published them daily. Some people wrote every day.
I didn’t set any goals, but I did discover a few cool things the past few weeks.
1. Your RSS subscribers will go up if you post regularly.
2. My average number of hits per day went up.
3. My most-trafficked posts were my usual off-the-cuff rants about something timely.
4. I forced a few posts, and it showed.
5. Amount of comments I received per post did not increase because of post frequency, but rather because of topic.
My take away? Write when you feel inspired, whether that’s five times a day or once a week. Try to space out the publish times, but unless you’re writing to a specific audience (customer base, colleagues, etc.) don’t worry about posting every day unless you have something of value to give them.
Time to go back and use ScribeSEO on all my old posts to give them some extra juice.
Peace.
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