number of articles for a good blog

To attract visitors, a blog must have good and enough original content.
What is your goal in term of numbers?
-how many total articles
-how many articles/day

 

No total amount. Just fresh unique content as regularly as possible. Some find once per day works great others find that they only have to post around 3 times a week. It varies from blog to blog. But the whole idea is to introduce new information, you should never stop blogging because you think you have enough content.

 

I agree you shouldn't stop writing articles, but you still have to have a number of "base articles". Thirty articles wont bring visitors as 1000 articles.

 

I think that it really depends on you and your style really. If you are unique in how you write and what you write then you can have 20 base or 50 base it won't matter. If like with updates, I have quality blogs that only post once a week that I make time to read, so basically it depends on you.

 

If you have the motivation for writing a new post each day, than write my friend. But don't forget something: if you would like to make a bond with your readers, than quality content is more important than the quantity of the content. If you write a blog solely to get visitors from Google/Yahoo, than pump out new, unique posts each day, otherwise keep in mind what I said earlier about quality and quantity.

Regards,
Jeremia

 

i would rather keeping it updated than posting lots of posts and than stop posting. i think updatinng 3 times a week is good enough.

 

I update when I feel like it actually, but 2-3 times a week is the minimum.

 

I update each of my blogs 4-5 times a week.

 

2-3 times a week is the best updating time. i do it to my blogs

 

I try and update as much as possible.
about 4-5 times a week

 

Thank you for sharing.
After a little study on this topic I think that minimum number of articles depends on blog type:
-general blog: no need of "base articles", number has no importance
-specific subject oriented, like my blog which is kind of catalog: needs a significant number of "base articles" to cover all categories (100-1000), the more, the better.

Regarding rate of articles: whatever blog you have, 1-7articles/week is fine.

 

Basically the more the better and there’s no limit to it. Successful blogs go to the extreme and they usually update it with fresh content 2-3 times a day. So it’s all about your commitment that we are talking about.

 

I wrote around 1200 blogposts on my blog during the start of my blog roughly 1.5 years ago. I get 1000/1100 visitors a day thats reading my blogposts and earn some from it so it's all good. For those that want to take a look my personal blog is: http://www.engineeringserver.com/blog/ it also helps that i'm a wellknown person on a few wellknown open source sites.