I was becoming a slave to one of my blogs, trying to find the time to blog every day and sometimes going so far as to skip meals just to keep up with my daily updates. My reasons for doing this were that I assumed that people had come to expect daily posts from me. I thought that my readers would be online every day and would therefore be disappointed if there was something fresh up every time they logged on.

It was obvious that I couldn’t keep up such a schedule with the amount of other work I have on at the moment, so I took a step back and started updating that particular blog every few days. To my surprise, my RSS count actually went up and has stayed up by about 20 readers, hovering a bit below the 200 mark. Search-engine traffic stayed the same, of course.

You don’t need to become a slave to your blog to make it work. It’s a different game if you have thousands of RSS subscribers because if you are in that position, your blog is something people rely on. For most of us, however, we don’t need to push ourselves that far. Granted, we may never reach pro-blogger status, but you have to seriously question what your time is best spent doing.

The only reason to update a blog every day is for your RSS subscribers, but I have already proved to myself – and now to others – that RSS subscribers don’t always need daily content. If you can write something that incites discussion and is of value, people will keep coming back to it for two or three days before they need something new.

How many of us have tried to get our blogs off the ground by writing religiously, wasting valuable time when we could have been doing other things?

Every blogger’s focus should be on providing quality content. If you can do that daily, without sacrificing other projects, then you probably don’t have much else to do, but very few of us find ourselves in that situation.

Have you ever felt like your blog was taking over your life?

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