Comments on: Is there such a thing as too much daily content?

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By: Laptop Repair Tech

Laptop Repair Tech — Tue, 01 May 2007 08:19:00 +0000

What do you think, is there such a thing as too much daily content?

I think it depends. If somebody is running a website as a business and getting revenue from it, he or she will definitely benefit from more content. Take a look at LifeHacker. Now they are getting over 418000 unique visitors a day! I believe just two months ago this number was about 380000. Even though the average visit length is only 7 seconds (means people don’t really read all their articles), they are making tons of page impressions every day. When you are monetizing you site with CPM ads, each impression counts! So, I think too much daily content works very well for them.

By: Jaxia

Jaxia — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:34:20 +0000

I don’t get pissed off — I just know that I can’t keep up. So, I usually just take the site off my list of things to read daily and add it to the ‘if I’m ever bored’ list.

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Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:27:46 +0000

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By: hem acharya

hem acharya — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:02:45 +0000

I go through the titles of blog post from high frequency blogs.. like Engadget. if something intereting i find then only i go to read all of its content under that title. but seeing so many entries bugs me sometimes and when i dont have enough time to read to titles i just mark all of them read.. but for low frequency blogs i definitely wont miss reading all the contents.

By: stark

stark — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:58:20 +0000

It will definitely mean more traffic from a search engine standpoint.

I don’t think the consensus here is that people would be pissed off by too much content. It’s more that too much content makes it difficult for people to keep up with every post. Once they start to fall far enough behind, everything either gets ignored or they unsubscribe and move on.

I personally would, and have unsubscribed to a blog because I just couldn’t keep up with their pace of updates. There are obvious benefits to posting tons of content, but if one of your primary goals is to establish a consistent readership and community, your post frequency is definitely something to look into.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:54:06 +0000

I agree I’m less likely to stay subscribed to a blog that posts numerous times a day. Just gives me the feeling I can’t keep up. Once a day is plenty - two at most, in my opinion.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:04:44 +0000

i disagree. I dont believe that too much content drives away readers. Im confused why anyone would think it would.

As long as the quality of posts remains the same i believe that more is better.

Seriously, would you get pissed off with a blog owner because he was posting more often? Would you unsubscribe because of it?

adding too much content is something im never going to worry about. not adding enough is something i will. More content means more content for readers to read and more pages for search engines to spider - ie. more traffic.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:34:17 +0000

I guess most of us don’t have enough time to read everything that we would like to read … we would have to filter out what interested us the most.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:17:46 +0000

This is very interesting to me. As a new blogger, I’m never really sure about this.

Thanks for the great info my friend!

Ryan