Quantity versus quality in the blogosphere

After a long contradictory discussion that I had with some of my fellow bloggers, I have decided to research thoroughly this matter, in order to settle the everlasting dispute.
Quantity or quality, which is the most important feature of an outstanding blog? Is it better to bombard the visitor with thousand of meaningless articles every day, or write just twice a week, but care about reader’s opinion and even try to make them interact with you, by stimulate them to comment the things that you have wrote?

This two concepts can be bond to two different characters, the powerful S.E.O. that is trying to maximize his profit by flooding the search engine with pointless articles filled with keywords and, on the other side, the blogger that cares about his readers, trying to get their attention and even admiration.

It is up to your decision, if you want to get traffic fast, you can flood your blog with useless articles, but this is a short term solution and you may regret it later. If the visitor will guess your intention, then he may treat your articles disinterestedly, even if you write something very interesting. In my opinion this is a desperate measure and I’d rather choose another option.
By the other hand, the first step to rise your traffic is to build your credibility, and if you are a novice blogger like me, the best way to obtain credibility is to provide good content. You must realize that you are not the only blogger on the network and you must admit that people don’t know you. Before you will stand out from the crowd, you will need a continuous flow of original article. Once people notice you care about what they think, you may see some encouraging results.

In conclusion, my personal advice is to keep things simple, because often simple is the best option, and try to impress your visitors. You will be surprised by the results. And as an experiment, you may try to combine quality with quantity, but I consider that is exhausting to write a lot and well, especially if you have a day job or classes to attend to, or both, even though this combination can offer far more superior results.
I consider this subject far from closed, and if someone disagrees with me, I will be delighted to hear their opinion. This is my way to keep things interactive.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan

A few tips about the keywords

In order to make your posts easier to find for the search engines, you must think about trying new techniques in the writing process of your posts, beside the good old figures of speech.
The most important of this techniques should be the managing of the keywords. On the web, keywords aren’t the words used to reveal the internal structure of the author’s reasoning, they are the tools used to be noticed by the search engines.
With the help of keywords, you may control how people will find the post in search engines or what they will have to type to find your information, but you also should ask yourself what keywords others are using, because if your keywords are very common, your information will be lost between thousands of posts with similar ones.
For a better result, you may use keywords in titles, tags and links, but you should use them in the content of the post too. You must be careful though and try not to overreact and ruin the post’s content and the reader’s pleasure. The overfilling of the text with keywords is also called keyword stuffing and everyone agrees that loading your page in attempt to manipulate is more often causing a negative effect. SEO experts suggests that the density of the keywords should be somewhere between 5 % and 20%, but I prefer the lower limit for the content’s sake.
Some people like to find keywords, then write an article that could contain those words, but you can try to reverse the approach, by writing a good article, then figure out how to integrate the keywords, you can find it sometimes easier and it usually works for me. This way, your text won’t seem artificial and it won’t offend your reader’s intelligence.
You can check at all time your progress of the post’s optimizing process with a keyword density analyzer.
With all this been said, just remember that most of the times, it’s best to have quality rather than quantity.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan