Why Quantity Matters

Blogging offers a way for you to build a website one page at a time. Anything goes in terms of the content you choose to publish and the purpose you want to achieve. Realistically speaking, however, if your blog doesn't have visitors, then even the most wonderful content you create won't achieve your purpose.

It's equally true - especially in the beginning - that if your blog doesn't have enough content, you won't find it easy to attract visitors. Even your early subscribers and other people you know well will stop visiting your blog if there is nothing new for them to see. (Wouldn't you?)

What's more, there are many promotional tools and income generating possibilities out there that only allow you to participate when your blog has a minimum number of "quality" posts that fit with the description of your blog.

Below are some concrete examples of early quantity benchmarks for new blogs that you might want to keep in mind.

With at least 5 posts you can:

• get your blog listed in search engines
• get your blog approved for listing at blogging communities like Entrecard, BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog
  

With 10-15 posts you can:

• list your blog in most blog directories

With minimum 30 posts you can:

• sell advertising on your blog through systems like ProjectWonderful (and others)
  
• apply to earn money writing sponsored posts to your blog through sites like PayPerPost
  

PLEASE NOTE: I have been waiting for the ourwwworld team blogs to have a minimum of 5 quality posts each so that we can start some ourwwworld contests that could win you some bonus cash for Christmas. Any blog currently in the ourwwworld sidebar that does not have a minimum of 5 posts relevant to your stated topic by 15 November will not be able to participate, and your blog will be deleted from the sidebar until you've caught up with the rest of the team. For those of you who already have reached that 5 post target, congratulations - and sorry for the delay!

Keep an eye out on 15 November (internet willing!) for the contest details.

Go Grace, Go! to Entrecard

Oh my goodness, I've just been reading Grace Ayaa's blog "Awakening." She's posted today about a visit to our friend Fred Kayiwa's project and it's just written beautifully. I want more!

Now that Grace has 5+ quality posts up would be a great time for her to think about joining the Entrecard community. They've recently disabled the income generating aspects of entrecard, and the forums are not that great, but getting my feet wet there has been extremely worthwhile nonetheless.

The number one reason why I like entrecard and wholeheartedly recommend it for any new blogger is because it's the only community for bloggers I've found so far where I am forced to go look at other blogs. The educational value of my journeys around the community "dropping my card" and occasionally commenting at blogs of all shapes and sizes for the past couple of weeks has been worth it's weight in gold.

The traffic back to pArtY @ christinaswwworld has also been good, and there's a few from the EC community who have started to follow my posts and comment. There are also quite a few blogs I've found that I'm now following, and I look eagerly for new posts whenever I log in.

I've made badges for all of the ourwwworld team blogs that you can use as your card that you upload to entrecard. They are all in the sidebar of your blog. You can right click to get the url of your image when entrecard asks for it at sign-up.

Grace, I really think the folks at Entrecard will love what you are doing. Hope to see you (and other ourwwworld team members once you've got 5 quality posts) at entrecard soon. Keep up the great work!

100 EC CREDIT BONUS - I've been building up credits at entrecard so I can share them with the ourwwworld team. If you're a team member, then once you've signed up at entrecard, drop your card at my blog and I'll send you 100 Entrecard credits. That will let you get started advertising on EC member blogs right away.