Blogs have different reasons for being. For those who hope to make money with their’s, they may want to post often. For folks like me who don’t have ads in their blog, we’re free to blog as we’re inspired.

In your case, Donna, you’ve built up a reputation for being a respected voice in the community. In my mind, that means you’ve earned the right to write when you darned well please. We readers already know it will be worthwhile to come see what you have to say.

But if your blog is used to also market your biz and services, you may have to be more active, so that newcomers can get to know you.

I get tired often and think of quitting mine every other week, btw 🙂

There’s so many blogs I’m subscribed to, and I’d rather they all did fewer posts everyday – so that I could really get into them.

That’s the point where I hit unsubscribe. It’s not about quantity, but more about quality. In general, most of the blogs I read get only 1 to 5 posts per per week, and that suits me fine.

There are only a few that I read, that post a little bit more often, and a few that only manage 2 to 5 posts per month.

If quality content pops up, even if it is only a couple of times per month, I’ll stay subscribed.

There are a few blogs that turn out multiple posts per day. I really haven’t got the time to go through that lot, so I’ll let other bloggers distill the “big news” rather than read the site directly.

First post, just joined your community after reading several posts on digg and sphinn. I enjoy reading what you have to say.

I’m glad you wrote this piece because it occurred to me after seeing what others have to say, that feeders give bloggers , the ability to write only when they have something to say, without adversely impacting their current base of subscribers, however new “subcribership” will grow more slowly simply because of the infrequency issue.

So, I guess the question is – Are you happy with your readership growing at a slower pace?

With feeders, I would blog posts to emails. If they’re of value, they’re welcome. If not, they might start being viewed as spam.

Something I want to be mindful of.

Unsubscribe? Never!

First of all, as a procrastinator I am motivated by deadlines. I don’t start things early but I sure as heck will finish them by the deadline. So, by setting myself the goal of posting every week day, (I’ve only missed one or two in the last 5 months) I’ve stuck with my blog longer than I have in the past. If I allow myself to just post whenever I’ll end up with yet another abandoned blog.

Also, while there are more and more people using feed readers, there are still a lot of people that don’t use RSS or even the email subscribe options. If those people make up a large portion of your audience then it’s probably not a good idea to disappoint them.

Last but not least, I think you have to consider the anticipation factor. If you post just whenever it’s going to be tough to build up excitement or anticipation for your content. Sure it will still be good but you’ll be missing that extra energy in your community. In my opinion even if you post less often, you should still do so on some sort of schedule.

I think one post a week or even a month is ok with me.

As a blogger, one of my sites has not been updated in about a month. This is the second time I do this and honestly, the number of subscribers (measured as uniques requesting /feed and like in a WordPress blog) has not decreased at all.

To sum it up: readers, and people in general, accept that bloggers are busy. It’s part of what makes blogging so personal: “Pierre is busy so he hasn’t updated his blog. That’s OK.”

To answer your question: You’ll be in my subscriptions list even if you blog once a month 🙂

Pierre