Blog Writing: Quality Trumps Quantity

I came across an excellent blog post this morning via my bloglines. Here’s a quote and I urge you click on the link if you are interested in sustainable blog writing.

” Most people start blogs and newsletters brimming over with enthusiasm, then lose momentum. That’s why you need a plan.[...] Frequency builds recognition and engagement. But if the high quality of content is not maintained, you risk turning off readers. Quality trumps quantity.

I am subscribed to hundreds of blog RSS feeds on a good number of different topics. Do I read them all? No. I scan. I skip through the repetitious, boring, and cliche. I am forever looking for something brilliant that will spark an idea, show me a new angle, a different approach, inform or inspire.

If your blog isn’t providing value to your readers, I suggest you stop writing. If it is providing value, start planning. Here’s to sustainable blogging!

4 Responses

  1. Good day

    Link from a relevant website is fantastic

    make sure you cultivate other sources of traffic other than the search engines.

    For Google is still the undisputed king of traffic.

    It is better that page A talks about the same subject as page B

    do not pay google, google will not make you have a better ranking or make your website have a better pagerak you need goowal.com

  2. With regards to this:

    “If your blog isn’t providing value to your readers, I suggest you stop writing. If it is providing value, start planning. Here’s to sustainable blogging!”

    The challenge is knowing what provides value and knowing who your readers are. You might assume whom your readers are, based on the type of blog you have. But with the Internet, your readers can come from anywhere.

    Something to consider is: if blogging is providing YOU value, then keep blogging. Someone else might find value in it too.

  3. Great post! I’ll subscribe right now wth my feedreader software!

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