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[TcM]

Well.. I had this blog:
TheComputerMaster » Games, Reviews, Technology, Online, Software etc...

For a year now, I just put some content in the beginning, it went up to PR3, then I stopped marketing it and now it's PR0.. well, now I'm going to start school and stop work... so I will have a lot of free time hopefully. So I decided to start this thing seriously!

Now, I am brain storming about what things should I blog about.. but my problem is.. should I make short (and possibly keyword-rich) blog posts but frequent (at least 4 blogs weekly) or long (possibly annoying) blog posts with much content?

For now I'm heading to the first method, short and frequent.. but I want your opinion please.

BTW, do you think that I should, in my blog posts, include links? For example, if I make a post about Google Chrome, I should link to the download page etc..? Is that good to have some natural outgoing links?

Thanks for your input.

[John]

Why not blog on CodeCall?

[TcM]

Uhm, because I want to have my own thing.. having my own domain, selling links, and putting adverts...

[morefood2001]

TcM said:

Uhm, because I want to have my own thing.. having my own domain, selling links, and putting adverts...

I understand where you are coming from and thats why when I ever get a chance, I am going to fix my personal website and start doing personal blogs on it.

Blogging on codecall is ok about computers and code, but what I want to blog about really doesn't fit into the spectrum that the name cc.net describes although I do like the blogging interface very much.

To answer your original question, I'm a believer in short, frequent blogs, and explain the full details somewhere else in a tutorial or article. For example, my 3 blogs about hosting experience are a touch too long, I should have hit on my recommendation and added a link to a details page that I would post on my website somewhere else.

I've found that people don't have the attention span to read more than a paragraph (I'm one of those people, and I end up skimming most of what I read).

[WingedPanther]

I think you should blog as frequently/lengthily as is appropriate. Bloating a single entry when several shorter ones would work better just annoys your potential readers. By the same token, if an entry needs to be longer to cover the content, make it long enough to do the topic justice.

[MeTh0Dz]

I like comprehensive sources.

[TcM]

MeTh0Dz|Reb0rn said:

I like comprehensive sources.

Is that the answer to:

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BTW, do you think that I should, in my blog posts, include links? For example, if I make a post about Google Chrome, I should link to the download page etc..? Is that good to have some natural outgoing links?

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[MeTh0Dz]

No, you guys were talking about not wanting to write long blogs. It was a response to that.

[Xav]

How about long and frequent blogs?

[John]

I tend to get bored of reading after 750 words.

[Xav]

I tend to get bored after 10 words. Break up the content, makes it more interesting.