Blogging doesn’t stop when you publish a post.
Every week, I aim to publish 5 posts at Quick Blog Tips. This usually involves a lengthy writing session at the weekend. Guess what I’m doing now?
Once the posts have been planned, written, proof-read and scheduled, I breathe a sigh of relief. Great work, 5 new posts will go out this week!
But it doesn’t end there. As soon as a new post goes up, the opportunity arises for readers to post comments. That means I’ll spend time reading the comments and replying to them. Not to mention visiting each commenter’s blog, and hopefully leaving a comment or two in return (if I see anything that interests me).
More Posts = More Comments
When you’re writing posts, you can easily forget how a frequent publishing schedule will result in comments coming in faster than you can reply to them.
Replying as they come in means you stay on top of them, but if you get interrupted by an email when you’re focusing on other things, you may find that not much is accomplished through the week except publishing posts and replying to comments.
A good achievement, but what about writing your newsletter? Writing an eBook? Commenting on other blogs? Emailing other bloggers? Using social media sites or forums? Not to mention seeing your friends and family?
Getting comments is a wonderful thing – just don’t lose sight of the time you’ll need to spend replying if you publish more posts. I’ve found it difficult to keep up with comments since I started publishing 5 posts – and I don’t really get a lot of comments. If I received more, I would probably decrease my posting frequency to 3 per week.
Discussion
How often do you write new posts? How many comments do you receive? How do you keep up?
Hi Ben,
Right now I’m on the ferry from Denmark to Sweden
I try to write every single day, but I publish two or three times a week. And I try to comment every day. I love feedback
Hi Jens – hope you have a smooth journey.
Staying on top of writing is important – if you fall behind, it can be a big job to catch up.
i wish I had this problem! I think the most comments I ever had was 25, and then you have to consider that half of those were from me. I have a harder time keeping up with people sharing my content and saying thank you. I guess my writing is useful enough to share, but not insightful enough to comment *lol* That isn’t too bad. I am think of adding a comment system that will add those tweets/facebook shares as comments for the blog.
Hi Susan.
I don’t get a lot of comments, but publishing 5 posts per week generates more feedback than if I were to publish 2-3 posts per week. I use Twitter regularly, and keeping track of any replies there doesn’t take too long. I think the character limit on Twitter helps, as it forces me to be concise 
Hey Ben,
Unless there is something on the way, I really publish 2-3 posts per day. I won’t recommend anyone to publish a lot of posts per week unless they are in a niche that requires that – like technology. For some niches, it is hard to come up with topics to write on – especially blogging due to competition – everyone is writing the same thing, but we need to stand out by delivering useful and unique content. I don’t like to publish more (At least not now) since I am not focusing on reaching a wider audience (while at the same time, keeping my existing audience happy).
Thanks for sharing the awesome post!
Hi Jeevan.
It’s a lot of work to write 5 posts per week, but I feel it’s really worthwhile. I have a lot of topic ideas and I love to share my latest tips. It’s always a good idea to find what works best for you – both in terms of how much you have time to do, and how much you feel is necessary. There’s no reason why you couldn’t alter your posting frequency if you feel like posting more (or less) in the future. 
Thanks for stopping by!