Not Blogging Daily

On August 7 of this year, I started this blog. And I’ve been blogging daily since then.

But I’m going to blog much less frequently from here on out.

Here’s a few thoughts (mostly for personal reference) that might be valuable:

• I outlined my rationale for blogging daily in a previous post.

• I’ve written well over a hundred generic technical articles since starting this blog.

• From a traffic growth standpoint, it probably doesn’t make much sense to do this as my work is much more niche anyway.

• Some of those tutorials have ten views or so, while others have hundreds (the success is very asymmetric).

• Blogging daily can have advantages in that it can be a solid SEO boost (I have been watching my traffic steadily increase over the past few months - but it hasn’t been parabolic or anything).

• I don’t think writing daily has been as helpful for me as it used to be.

• I don’t think sharing a code snippet that saved me time hasn’t really made me a better programmer like I thought it might.

• I think it helped my memory earlier, but writing it down and posting it no longer helps me remember it at all for some reason.

Given the asymmetric success of the short technical articles I’ve been writing, I’d rather just focus on quality over quantity: occassionaly making posts that are less generic and much more thoughtful.

I’ll also take some time to reorganize this site at some point and likely archive those tutorials.

And I can barely fit a ten-minute ritualistic post into my schedule at the moment anyway.

Conclusion

There are definitely trade-offs to blogging daily. It could be a great way to grow your site, especially early on.

I’m sure it eventually gets exponential if you stick with it. I did not reach that point. Sorry, Google.

But my personal stance on the habit has changed significantly after trying it for a while.

Anyway, this is a very meta post - but I’ll be back with some more interesting content that is much more niche in the near future.