Week 5 –Learning how to blog – Post Length and Frequency

While researching the world of blogging and how to put one together, I quickly discovered the importance of post length and frequency as part of writing good content. In his post about post length, Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net councils to keep the readers attention span in mind, as well as ensuring comprehensive coverage of the topic. Another excellent source of information about blogging at johnchow.com talked about how nothing turns off a blog reader more than blogs updated on an inconsistent schedule. The key appears to be the frequency of the posts, not their length. That said, the consensus seems to be that I should try and keep the post to between 200 to 250 words. To date, I have averaged just over 300 words per post, but given that I have only a couple of posts under my belt and the introduction to the project were more lengthy to cover the topic, I seems to be on track.

In order to keep to those guides, I am going to try to write at least one longer post per week to give a summary of the progress that I have made on the project in the proceeding seven days, as well as throwing in shorter posts throughout the week of news or other milestones as they happen.
One of my faults is that I try to completely sure of something before I get stuck in and I am starting to do it with this blogging project as well. The more that I research about how to blog, the more that I find that I don’t know. However, it is time to stop aiming the damn thing and actually fire. I have decided to just go for it and learn as I go. I am sure that there are many things that I will miss or make mistakes on, but I sure that the experience will help me be a better blogger.