It’s time for another Reader Poll – this week I want to take a look at your posting frequency.
How Many Posts Did You Publish On Your Main Blog in May?
Pick your main blog and focus upon that. I responded for ProBlogger where I published 88 posts over May – 10 more than my three month average.
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Feel free to tell us more in comments below. For example – was your May posting level higher or lower than normal?
Thanks for this poll — I’m looking forward to the results. I was just recently making a plan for dramatically upping my number of posts. I have been successful with my 1 1/2 year old blog on only about 15 posts a month, so I am hoping things will really take off if I can commit to posting more frequently.
I just started my blog so I did not feel it would be fair to contribute a vote here. But, great idea for a poll, thanks!
Running a baseball blog we’ve upped our posting frequency during the weekdays and primarily cut out the weekend posts. This is one of the few times we’ve had M-F covered throughout the month and we ended up gaining about 15% in traffic.
I’ve been doing one post per weekday for almost a year now, and sometimes on the weekends, so this month of 11-20 was pretty much on par. Although, now and again I get urges to change the routine, simply because it feels so… routine.
May was my best month so far for posting. I’ve been energized by my increasing traffic on the site.
58 posts last month, about 20 posts lower than previous months, I took a few more days off last month then months previously, busy with other projects and all.
This is a great poll though, helping bloggers reflect on how far they’ve come is a lot better for them then to look at how much further they have to go.
My May posting level was slightly below average at 13. I have had a few months where I have done 30 posts, but generally it’s about 15-20. I stopped trying to post every day because it was too much with all the blogs. I try to have a few good quality posts a week instead, usually about 3 but occasionally more. May was a busy month personally and I wasn’t able to stick to my usual schedule.
179 posts for May – higher than usual because I went away on vacation and mobile photo blogged for a week.
I’m another weekday blogger. I wrote 20 this month.
About 20 (or less)
wonder where is it going :)
I only have time to post once a day, though I wish I could do it more with regular guest posters!
10 posts for may. Getting used to the routine , I should do about 20 this month, trying to make sure that all my posts are valuable, the more quality than quantity paradigm
I think that I’ll complete 15 posts this month.
166 in May. Down from 205 in June.
But I’m a sports blog, so things might be a little different.
We had 75 posts on mail blog and few on podcast blog. That gives us 2.5 posts/day and is lower than usual.
Us = me and other authors.
Post level dropped dramaticaly because I haven’t posted that often due to finishing my book.
I.e. in April we had 135 posts, 5 podcasts and few screencasts published.
I try to blog on every weekday , 11-20 posts are average for me.
I posted 26 in May, down a bit from my usual one-a-day approach, but I realized that since my posts are rarely under 450 words and cover deeper subject matter, I needed to lesson my number of posts. I am working on trying to encapsulate “wisdom fueling growth” in smaller posts.
..er, that should have read, “lessen.”
I’ve been shamefully neglectful in the past couple of weeks (thanks Twitter lol), so I only made 9 posts in May. I always try to make a post at least every other day.
Posting was about average for me in May. I’m really trying to ramp up and get about 4 posts a week as opposed to 1 per week…
I try to blog at least 3 times a week – typically Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and maybe a quick light hearted post on the weekend. So I ended up with 16 posts in May…pretty much what I would expect.
I started my blog in May and provided 49 articles. I talk about women and work and family, so lots of things to say , you know :-)
20 posts for me! June will be less though, as I’ve been busy transferring my blog from Blogger to WordPress :)
I have also just started. right now i’m doing about 3 a week but hope to increase to atleast once a day 5 days a week. I run a gaming site so theres always plenty to write about.
12 in May, but I wanted to do more. Just don’t have time to blog as much as I’d like.
17 posts for me. One less than April, so it was pretty much on target.
62, a record on this site for me. The State of Indiana had a Republican convention with a contested AG race, our site jumped rapidly prior to the convention with active debate statewide and then to number one as I live blogged from the floor of the convention.
Don’t expect that big a number in June.
I did 4 in May, the same in April, but down from when I started the blog in January and the months after that. Now I’m making the effort to post twice a week, which I think is sufficient for my readers.
But my subscribers have been growing, although my traffic “peaks and valleys.”
I’ve done some re-thinking about how i’m approaching my blog, and I’ve been trying Darren’s and other’s ideas about brainstorming ideas for posts and writing them ahead of time.
All-in-all, I’m pleased.
Nice poll, interesting.
Monday till Friday each week, In May I had 21 posts.
five per day keep the doctor away – and google up
I’ve ramped up my efforts from 5 posts monthly to one-a-day in May. I’ve decided that this is a good pace to increase RSS subscribers, and product AD dollars down the road. I also feel much more passionate the more posting I do.
Technically, I created my new archives in May, whereby I separated all my reviews into individual posts. So, I could probably say I posted about 600 or more posts, but, for actual daily posts, I did about 30-40 range.
I was in shock. I had 53 posts for May! :|
The real question is: how many posts are TOO MANY? And I’m sure the answer has to do with how good the content is for each post…
20 posts exactly for May. My goal has always been to post something every other day – this month I managed more than every other day.
I have found (with my clients/readers) that posting more than once a day is too overwhelming. I know that most blogs are good to do, but feedback from my readers is 1 post every other day is ideal.
I just post about 70 post for 5 blogs..
12 posts on May. Hopefully better in June..:)
I post once a week. My blog is not news-oriented but essay oriented, so that is a writing schedule that works for me. I ramped up to once a week at the end of last year, after almost 3 years of posting twice a month or so. I like the new schedule, and my readers do too, judging from the increase in traffic these past few months.
33 posts for May, which sounds about right considering I try to post daily, and occasionally sneak in a second post. I could really post twice-a-day at my main blog, but because I write for a couple different sources I try to spread that additional material around a bit.
I did the first 73 posts to Wir sprechen Online. – But well, it’s unfair to compare blogs and micro-blogs.
I took a page out of your playbook Darren and did a series on getting motivated for fitness this last month and it gave me a lot of posts to write about for a week. I find that my posting drops off when I am not motivated and in emailing my list on what they wanted to see they said that they have trouble getting motivated to workout so voila, a series of articles is quickly born.
Started up in May. If you ask again in June I will tell. Amazingly enough there are a few on here that posted over 150. Curiosity has got me and I will check out their Blogs.
Since my blog covers an NFL team, it’s been typical to post less during the dredges of the offseason (May and June). This year it wasn’t the case – 91 posts in May. I was pleasantly surprised.
The growth in the site has added demand – daily practices get 1-3 posts… any breaking injury news… it’s a blast.
73 exactly. :)
My May posts were about half my usual posting total. Too many deadlines for clients left me with little time to grow my own business. Need to develop a strategy to avoid that the next time around.
I slacked ! Only had one post per week :-( I guess now that we have more people developing content, I decreased my frequency…..
Thanks for this post. I’m getting back on the horse this month!
88. Wow.
I guess this is the difference between blogging as a business and blogging as a hobby.
I post three times per week. 15 posts on May which is my normal posting schedule.
May was my best month for posting so far. I’ve been blogging on and off for a number of years, but just recently decided to commit to writing each day (or almost every day). I expect June will yield a higher number of musings than May did.
I suppose I should have stated that I posted 15 times in May. Sorry for the oversight.
112 for me, though I do have a couple of other people contributing too.