When I first started this website, my strategy was to post "when inspiration struck". This sort of worked, but left wide gaps of inactivity on the site. It was a brand new website, so no posts meant no visitors and to me that meant little inspiration. It's tough to keep something going when you feel like you aren't getting anything out of it.

The next method came with an unexplained surge in motivation where I wanted to post as much and as often as possible. It has taken me less than a week to realize this will not work either. Ok, the website has grown quite a bit with all the new content. Stinky Hobo and his pal the Office Hobo have new stories, there are new jokes, and I'm brushing up on satire. A lot has happened on this website in the past week but I feel this monkey-on-crack method of mass posting is not working for me either.

For one, I can't keep up at this pace. Several posts per day means a couple hours of writing per day. Working a full-time job, I simply don't have the time. This is a lame excuse... I have obviously made time to do it so far and if I wanted it bad enough, would continue to make the time for it.
But the clincher, whether we have time to spend or not, is that making a bunch of posts does not equal making a bunch of GOOD posts. Most of the time, the opposite is true because we are scrambling for more and more stuff to post and a whole lot of junk makes it in there.

Now, I'm not saying that all of my first posts were quality posts and all of the recent ones are junk. But I am saying that focusing on a post count makes the junk posts a lot more likely to slip through. Do you really want a blog full of two sentence junk posts that don't amount to, or contribute anything? Are the posts you're making going to be relevant five years from now? How about a year from now or even a month from now? Are your posts going to be relevant tomorrow? Is anyone going to want to read them or find them of value?

Maybe we should be asking why we're really doing a blog in the first place... But I will leave that question for another post.

Working on this website for the past few months has taught me that quality is absolutely more important than quantity. If you have a thousand articles on your website but only ten of them are any good, what are the chances that your visitors will find the good ones? Or will you just overwhelm them with fluff and posts about your day as to turn them away? When they leave your website, will they ever return?

On the flip side, it is a lot more difficult to come up with a quality post. That takes gasp time and effort. And they usually take some thought, too. It's much easier to put the brain and fingers on auto-pilot and write whatever random blurb comes to mind.

There are many ways that quality posts will not only increase the value, but also the potential of your site or blog. Content will bring visitors to your website but only quality content will keep them returning. Well written posts on a specific theme or idea will also rank well in search engines, bringing in a continual stream of new readers to your site. Good articles will get linked on other sites and blogs. These are all positive for your website.

I am convinced that in the long run, quality will always win out over quantity but the trick is to find what works for you to achieve your purpose and intentions. In the end, it is all up to you. It is your site, after all.