If You Have Nothing Good To Post, Don't Post Anything

Just like the saying "If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything.", it's blogging counterpart "If you have nothing good to post, don't post anything." has also its justifiable points.

Creating new posts will be a regular task for a blogger who is trying to establish himself and do good in the blogosphere. But other bloggers have wrongly mixed up the term "regular" with "everyday". "Everyday" can be considered "regular" but "regular" does not mean all the time "everyday". Regular simply means having equal times or spaces between days. Because of this misconception by some bloggers, they force themselves to make posts everyday just to fill up their blog. This is absolutely good if and only if they are really into it, that is, they have the time, the fresh ideas, the will to do it, etc. But if they create posts everyday because they just have to, then there is one thing that could be sacrificed: quality content.

When you force yourself to blog about something, then you would possibly leave quality content behind. Say for example, Mr. X came home from work late at night, had to drop on 300 Entrecard blogs and then saw that his last post was two days ago. Mr. X thought, "What would my readers think, that I don't have fresh content everyday?". So he tried to make a post even though he is wary and his mind is weezy from work. What would be the effect? A blog post that is of poor quality. Although we can't possibly generalize that one, considering that as the standard effect of such forceful writing would be smart. What was wrong with his analysis? Readers don't force you to create new posts everyday or as frequently as you can. A normal reader would say, "I'd rather read two quality and well-written posts a week than read seven utterly lifeless ones in the same duration." Plus, forcefully creating posts would lead to grammatical and spelling errors, usually when one is tired, hungry, sleepy or sick.

This all points to the idea that a blogger should only be creating content that is of good quality for his and for his readers' benefits. Take note that content is directly proportional to traffic. Posts without life and sense would never attract readers to come back often. Don't worry about not having to post always, readers don't usually mind or take notice unless it has been a two weeks since your last post.

So, if you can't think of anything to post or you're not in the perfect and ideal condition to create a post, then do something else rather than sacrificing the quality of your post, and more, the over all quality of your blog. But if you can make quality posts everyday of your blogging life, do so. But again, it also has its disadvantages (which will be tackled in another blog post).

Again, if you have nothing good to post, don't post anything.

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