I thought I'd write a few lines about blogging every day. Some people ask how on earth it is possible. Others blog every day themselves and perhaps understand in a different way. But how do you find the time? And what are the advantages and disadvantages?
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Blogging every day - past and present
In the past, it was probably even more common than today to blog every day. I remember reading advice from big bloggers, and then it was about blogging 3-4 times a day to "succeed". When you think about it today, it sounds almost insane, but you should probably see it in the light of the fact that blogging was something completely different at that time.
Maybe you can compare yesterday's blogging with today's Instagramming. You posted a picture and some thoughts about it, and that was that. No wonder some people managed to keep up the pace with several blog posts a day.
Nowadays, many bloggers focus on long, well-written and informative blog posts, which are more like articles, and it might be better to publish once a week or a few times a month. At the same time, there are still many "everyday bloggers" who like to share daily photos or musings. So, we are far from being alone in blogging every day.
Blogging every day - if you sometimes want to write long articles
Our blog has perhaps become something of a "middle ground". Sometimes we write long, elaborate articles, factual posts and guides, which of course take quite a long time to write. Other days we write shorter and more spontaneous reflections.
But if you want to write as long and elaborate as we do sometimes, how on earth do you have time to write every day? Well, I sometimes wonder that too, actually. I don't have a really well-thought-out strategy, but if I think about it, I still come up with some things.
On weekends, when I have more time, I write long articles, such as travel guides and factual articles. On weekdays, when I also work, I write reflections and things that don't take much time. If I know I'm going away one evening, I try to prepare by writing an extra post a few days in advance.
Pros and cons of blogging every day
There are obviously both pros and cons to blogging every day. One disadvantage is that it can be stressful. Another disadvantage can be that you don't have time to spend as much time on a post as you would like. But there are many advantages too!
One advantage is that you can always write about things that feel current, i.e. we can often write with a "here and now" feeling. I also feel that you get better contact with the readers when you write often, and the readers know that there is always something new to read. Another advantage, which at least I feel, is that I lower the requirements for everything to be "perfect". Good enough must simply apply.
Can't you have ready-made articles for unexpected occasions?
Some people ask if we usually have pre-written posts in stock that we can publish when it's convenient. I know some bloggers who work that way, and I think that it sounds like super smart. Unfortunately, I don't really work that way, it seems.
I have sometimes had the ambition to write some "buffer posts", but it never really works. Firstly, I don't really know when to find the time to write those "extra posts". Secondly, I think it is so unmotivating to write if I don't know that I'll be able to publish soon.
I will probably continue writing the night before, or at best two nights before. If there are no problems sometimes? Well, sometimes I mess things up a bit. Yesterday, for example. I suddenly realised that we were going to a meeting and an event in the evening and that it would be late. But I had forgotten to write something ... So what did I do? Well, I wrote this little reflection about blogging every day.
Do you also blog? How often do you think it is appropriate to write? And if you don't blog yourself but read blogs, do you think it matters how often the blogs you read are updated?
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4000mil says:
We have already discussed this, both verbally and in a comment thread. 🙂
I like to have a buffer. Normally maybe 5 posts, at most I have had around 10. Now I have 1 and one "almost finished" and then I get stressed. And that's the reason why I have my buffer to not have to feel stress.
But also because I can't find the spelling mistakes immediately after writing. When I write, there are many careless mistakes such as "two letters that change places", a letter is missing or "can" becomes "man" etc. I would rather type than correct immediately, because then I lose the flow and forget what I wanted to say.
And then the text needs to rest for me to find them. Yesterday I posted a post that I wrote the night before last. And suddenly, I found like 4 errors in it when I read after publishing. Feels unnecessary and embarrassing!
But sure, the other week I wrote a post about how it rains so much in Umeå and then it snowed the night before publication of course and someone pointed it out.
I think publishing every day is great for reader engagement, but I can't do it myself. Wrote every day in July this summer and was completely exhausted then. 🙂
29 October 2020 - 7:08
Helena says:
Yes, I recognise that we have talked about this! ? I am impressed with your buffer, seems very practical! I recognise the spelling mistakes. I usually read through on my mobile phone in the morning just when it is published. Not uncommon for me to correct 1-3 small errors then.
29 October 2020 - 10:43
Monet says:
I wrote a blog a couple of times a week for eight years. The blog is called Life in a Southern French Village and is about just that. It was great fun to share everything we experienced in our new French life, including all the travelling we did. And what nice blogger friends we met - we got in touch with each other that way too. It really was a very fun and stimulating time and social media and the internet "at its best".
Then we were repeatedly hospitalised and it eventually became far too private and monotonous to write about it. Then suddenly one day it just ended. Literally from one day to the next. The blog is still there and sometimes I think about taking up writing again but now with the perspective of having moved back to Sweden again. But something has happened to the blogging world: many, like me, have stopped, others keep theirs alive but not more than that. Most of them doubt from time to time whether they should continue as the comments are not there. Instagram and Facebook seem to have taken over for many. I am currently one of them!
29 October 2020 - 9:06
Helena says:
Blogging has certainly led to many social contacts and meetings. Fun! Perhaps the best thing about blogging. Funny if you start blogging again! ?? But it may be true that some people have switched to Instagram. We are there too, but there we focus on the photos and on very short texts (and we also write in English there) ?
29 October 2020 - 10:47
Goatfish says:
When I first started blogging, I would write several - and short - posts per day. But soon I switched to one per day. It gets overwhelming otherwise. And one a day is just right for the reader too, I think.
Sometimes I feel like taking a break for a few days and that's what I do, because blogging should always be fun. When I spend time with my relatives, I have to focus on them, since we live a long way apart.
Your blog is nice but I don't read all blogs every day.
Autumn hugs /Gerd
29 October 2020 - 9:26
Helena says:
It sounds like you found a good way! I follow your blog on Bloglovin and check in relatively often, nice! I also do not think that everyone reads everything with us. You look at the title and read what you want, I think 🙂 .
29 October 2020 - 10:54
Solan says:
No blog but read many. Mainly motorhome bloggers. But a tendency is that many blogs start to resemble wikipedia. Too long and too many facts.
I like daily updates, but it seems the virus is dampening the travel blogs. Not so much happening.
I think you've managed to vary your menu well, despite the travel situation...?
29 October 2020 - 9:34
Daniel on FlyingDryden says:
The constant balancing act of writing long detailed posts or dividing them into several. I myself have a hard time reading super long posts with fifty eleven pictures but often end up there myself because I want to have said so much.
29 October 2020 - 10:27
Helena says:
Solan, I understand what you mean and we are among those who sometimes write long factual posts. Some posts we want to be found via Google (eg travel guides and such) and then they must be long to get high up in the search results. I fully understand that you do not have the time to read such things every day when you follow a blog. We try to mix and match a bit ?
29 October 2020 - 10:57
Ama de casa says:
I wrote several posts a day in the past, but now it is "only" one a day (which then tends to be too long 😉 ). The last time I did not write a post a day was in the autumn of 2014 when we were attacked by Hurricane Odile in Mexico and were completely cut off from the outside world for three days. No water, no phone, no electricity and of course no internet. Not so easy to blog then 😉
Since my blog is more of a diary format and a nonsense blog, the posts don't take very long to write. There is not much fact checking, so to speak. What usually takes the longest is choosing which pictures to include. I should start taking fewer pictures... 😀.
I like your blog very much and am extremely impressed with all the time you spend on it. Keep inspiring us readers! Thank you in advance 🙂
29 October 2020 - 9:55
Helena says:
Oh yes, under those circumstances in Mexico it is a bit difficult to blog? I recognise that with the pictures. Now that I've started taking photos with my mobile phone, I sometimes try to clean up directly in my mobile phone, even before I load them into the computer.
29 October 2020 - 11:10
Daniel on FlyingDryden says:
I blogged a few times a week for the first few years but jumped on #blogg100 in 2014, when I wrote every day for 100 days. I kept at it for over a year but when I got to 400+ I couldn't take it anymore and now I'm posting every second or third day. It feels like a reasonable level and so I try to mix with personal reflections, which are usually easier to write. I recognise myself in what you write about that.
I agree with Gunilla. It is nice to have a buffer and at most I had posts for three weeks ahead. In the spring even. When everyone else seemed to be having blogitis, I had a free outlet and produced more than ever. And the same with being able to publish for a while ahead, then you have time to correct oddities you find when you read the texts again just before publication. Perhaps most importantly on the "important" posts.
But no. I will return to blogging every day but appreciate that others do it. 😉
29 October 2020 - 10:31
Helena says:
I understand that it is good to have a buffer. Very impressed to be 3 weeks in advance!!!
29 October 2020 - 11:12
Daniel on FlyingDryden says:
There was a short period this spring. 😉
29 October 2020 - 11:33
Eva/Living like Eva says:
My goal or my plan is to blog twice a week and I have kept it pretty good, with some deviations especially this year. I see blogging as my hobby and it should have a certain structure and take just the right amount of time, like going to the gym twice a week (something I don't do 🙂 ) I would like to have a buffer but never get it.
29 October 2020 - 12:07
Helena says:
It is important to find a model that suits you! A little nice to hear that there are more people who do not fix that with a buffer 😉.
02 November 2020 - 20:23
Annar Aas says:
One of those who read every day. First four newspapers, then a dozen blogs. Feels fresh after the morning swim. Since I became a pensioner, it's nice to have routines. My children gave me a blog when I turned 60 "vadannars.se" but I never got round to writing. Entered your blog as a new motorhome owner and like all the reports from your travelling and tinkering with the car. I think everything else is good too so I don't miss a day. Thanks for contributing to that part of life.
29 October 2020 - 13:53
Helena says:
Thank you for writing this! I read your comment to Peter as well. It warms me to hear things like this. Have fun!!!
02 November 2020 - 20:24
Matts Torebring says:
My goal for the last few years has been to write every day. Those who are active always have something to tell, that's my way of thinking. I also always want to write in real time, what happened today, or what will happen tomorrow. I try to be quite short in my writing, so as not to get tired, and a maximum of ten pictures on each post.
A picture is not just a picture for me, it is a story, a history and of course I want to share the story of the picture. When I take a picture, I always try to think of a story about it.
Your blog is a great professional blog, while my blog is an amateur blog because I enjoy writing so much. If I see someone who has more visitors, I try to be even more effective, and find good headlines that catch on.
29 October 2020 - 17:04
Helena says:
I understand about writing in real time. I prefer to do that too (even if it's not always the case). I totally agree that you get tired if you write too long. Sometimes we write so long, for example travel guides about a certain destination, but then we think that the reader is the one who is googling and travelling there. Thinking that readers who follow just scroll a little 😉.
02 November 2020 - 20:26
Veiken says:
Right now I'm trying to get a post up every other day. We belong to the risk group so it is almost the same thing every day. I don't see the blog as important anymore!
When covid is over, it will probably be a heavenly speed on the bitch! 🙂
29 October 2020 - 19:07
Helena says:
Everything in life goes in periods. And certainly you are a bit limited this period, but you can blog! 🙂
02 November 2020 - 20:26
BP says:
I have no buffer at all, but I know others who have hundreds of posts in their draft. There is a little difference between your professional blog and a "regular" everyday blog that, for example, I, Gerd, Ditte and Ama have. Our posts work almost like a diary, not least for ourselves.
I think one post a day is enough, unless something really interesting happens. Too long posts are hard to read and take in everything. But as I said, I have a nonsense blog that probably cannot be compared to your professional travel blog.
29 October 2020 - 21:10
Helena says:
Some of our posts are definitely too long to read on a daily basis, like our travel guides about certain destinations. But I write them more for those who are travelling there (and for others to scroll through ;)). If you are going to read every day, it must be much shorter, I agree! 🙂
02 November 2020 - 20:29
Lena - good for the soul says:
I am impressed that you manage to publish a post every day. Especially since you have so many irons in the fire anyway.
I used to manage a post every day, but lately I've slowed down a bit. There are maybe 4-7 posts per week. This time of year it's especially hard to get anything done considering it's dark when I go to work and dark when I get home. I don't get quite the same feeling when I get to pick old pictures. But yes, worse problems exist here in life 🙂.
Hug Lena
30 October 2020 - 21:47
Helena says:
It is important to find a way that you enjoy! And yes, there are worse problems 😉
02 November 2020 - 20:29
Lena in Wales and Spain says:
It's great that you can blog every day, without having a buffer post.
I blog twice a week, every Wednesday and Saturday, and have lots of finished or semi-finished posts.
31 October 2020 - 13:00
Helena says:
It's mostly that I don't succeed with the buffer inserts, it sounds like a good idea otherwise 😉.
02 November 2020 - 20:30
Maggan and Ingemar says:
I have probably never been into blogging every day. The exception is when we have been travelling, then we have time in the evenings and want to share our experiences. The blog is good as a "remember" often we look for facts, when the memory fails. For me, blogging is a form of diary, but also to share what's going on with our children and relatives who live far away. My husband usually reads my entries and corrects me when he notices errors, which I can then correct. The problem now is that there are so many blogs that you want to follow and comment on, but it takes time. The strange thing is that nowadays there's not enough time....could it be because we're getting older and the internet has taken over? It's fun to read your blog, even if I don't always comment.
01 November 2020 - 10:03
Helena says:
Of course there are many blogs to follow, and it takes time. I follow in Bloglovin and scroll headlines and click on the occasional post. I do not have time to read everything and guess that it is the same for others.
02 November 2020 - 20:32
Mats at Explore More says:
I am impressed by those of you who write a blog post a day. Especially without a buffer. I aim to post one or two a week and will be happy if I manage one. My goal and idea is to try to keep the word count down for my posts when I sit down and start writing. But, the text has a tendency to swell to a little too big and long text when I start screwing around and wordsmithing. Then it also takes a lot of my time for just one post and I have to be satisfied with one a week. I also have little discipline to keep a buffer. If I get a lot of posts on the shelf, I don't keep it, but take the opportunity to do other jobs. Suddenly that shelf is empty again.
02 November 2020 - 9:11
Helena says:
It is important to find a way that you enjoy! Thanks for your comment 🙂
02 November 2020 - 20:33