How often do you blog? Is there a breaking point where it is too much or not enough? My current “series” is a daily one (40 Days of Soup) but I don’t usually have something everyday. I’m looking for a balance.

@charlottewood speaking of taking up your time, how do you manage your time on the computer. It is so addicting!

thanks  @kristi-hines

@dcoville001 Diane, what a marvelous, helpful post. Thanks. Two especially helpful take-aways from you: 1) start a draft when you have a non-time-sensitive topic idea! love that and 2) google alerts – I need to find out more about this And, I’m mentioning Charlotte and Kristi here so they will find out about your awesome post. @charlottewood @kristi-hines

I think the key is consistency.  If you can only do one post a week because of other obligations, work, family, etc., then that is what you do and keep it going.  However, Rich Brooks recommends posting 2-3 times a week for 6 months to really impact search engine results. He gave a great presentation on SEO and being found on the web.  I wrote a series of articles on it here in case you missed it:http://www.blogsbyheather.com/series-how-to-be-found-on-the-web/

As your business grows you may be able to hire a blogger for you to post more often, or you can also look into guest bloggers (always people looking for work and there are many that do great articles).

Anyway, I try to do 2-3 times a week, but at times it’s only once. But I keep trying to keep it at 2-3 times at least.

Best wishes, keep posting Heather

@aremorch Interesting, I’ve never heard of a blog challenge. What do you blog about? How does it work? I did a writing (toward a book) challenge of 100 words a day for 30 days which was profitable. I’ll check out the link, thanks.

Hi @deairby
My passion, talent, knowledge, background and love is for my Hotel Family. I blog about how Social Media will extend the basic values we build our Hotel Services and Products on.
And my blog foundations is showing the results that I set out for. So I am satisfied with my achievement this year. Somethings I did really well, others not so well and then I made some mistakes. Will go over all this next week.
This is why I am really excited to be here on the SME Networking Club. Since I work as an independent contractor by myself it is really great to get input from others here. 
I learned a lot just by following the SME blog, so this was a great extension for me. And I already found a lot of great value here. I am in the Business Club and there I find some great tips on organize my business plan better for 2012.

But yeah I will work on something similar to the challenge you mention next year. I read a lot of info related to my niche and also on Social Media, so I keep a idea bank. 
Cheers…
Are Morch – Hotel Blogger  

@penworth @aremorch @kimberlylosavio Looks the challenge is on for 2012! Let’s go bloggers!

I watch the traffic on my blog and note a total spike when I publish (though I am looking at volume numbers most of you would scoff at likely). So yes, consistency is what I am attempting to get nailed down. The coffee world is full of blogs, I know shocking we all seem to have opinions.

I will work at setting up the google alerts, that’s a good idea @dcoville001.

@cynthiacosco thanks for your comments, Cynthia. I agree that consistency is probably the most important factor, whether you post daily, weekly, or monthly. 

Do you ever sleep?

@deairby
Oh Dea!
I’m sorry, I read your name wrong – LOL.
I think I should get some glasses! Or maybe it’s that I have unwrapped and put away too many of my kid’s presents today that I just cant see straight anymore today…LOL.

Sorry about that!
Heather

@deairby
LOL. But to answer your questions…I don’t sleep much. I have a 2 yr old and a 5 yr old and while raising them I do my Blogs By Heather business

So with that, I do try and post often, 2-3 times a week. Sometimes I fall short as the days go so fast..but I do try to keep up as it’s important with SEO and I like to keep my following happy and giving them the info they want.

I’m very self taught, I love to learn new things, but I also do have a background in computer programming which is why blogging came easy to me in regards to the back-end stuff…which enables me to write how-to articles. 

What I learn, I write and share.  And I try and do it all platforms (Blogger, TypePad and WordPress are the ones I cover) so i do them like 3 times – LOL.

Anyway, hope that helps explain what I blog about and where I get some of my how-to stuff from.  Most of my how-to articles come from my customers and what they ask.

Happy blogging!
Chat soon,
Heather

I agree in blog from 1 to 3 articles, depending on your availability.

Quality vs Quantity is the best thing about blogging and a lot of some other things too! =)

Wow – interesting thread. This morning I have mapped out my blog posts for the first four months of the year.  This year I am going to switch to mostly video blogging and attempt (!!) to do two blog posts per week on two different subjects, which are the subjects of my two books… meaning a total of 4 per week.  I have found that my blog posts open rate is higher on Wednesday’s and Friday afternoons.  So I have scheduled Monday’s to either record or write two blog posts per week, which will then be ready with editing, for posting on Wednesday and Fridays. Then use the other two posts to blog on topics of current interest.  thanks to everyone who has posted their ideas, I will be adding a number of those as well.

@Dea Irby – We have a small studio (and I mean super small, ie kitchen stool set up against a wall, with a small table next to it) set up in a portion of our house.  We have a Kodak camera with a microphone and do all the filming there. Using natural light as the room is surrounded by windows.  It all looks professional until the clouds cover the sun   I then edit them on Movie Maker and upload them to Youtube and then to my blog and then tweet/facebook.  I did a lot in 2011, but then switched back to writing later in the year as the filming would take ages until I was happy with it, and my speaking engagements took over.  However, I have decided this year to map out the subjects then take each of them and create only 3 or 4 tips for each.  My challenge is to get the blogs down to 2.5 or 3 minutes and yet make them content rich.  For me, it was establishing my niche and just staying in it, resisting the urge to expand.  I feel that 2011 was really for me, exploring what it was that I wanted to say and then being comfortable in my own skin enough to expand on that.  I smile when you say about being organized – I realised today when I was doing all my planning, that the planning part is easy, it is the execution that is the challenge!!

@deairby

I used to blog on a daily basis, after a while I started looking for content as it became very difficult to generate interesting content on a daily basis. So now I update 1-2 on a weekly basis

Regards,Sandeep