This is a question that has puzzled many people in forums and other places. Even people in the happy land of Twitter have been wondering about it. How much you should post varies by many factors. It all depends.

Optimizing for Readers

If you want a successful blog, you should focus on optimizing your post interval to fit your readers. In my opinion keeping a constant writing interval will bring in the best amount of readers. When you keep a constant update interval, then people will come to your site regularly to check back on how you are doing.

There may be some days that you have the drive to write several posts. If you write for on average a post a day normally, then I would cache part of the posts and published them at a later date. Never publish 5 posts one day and then 0 posts on the next five days. As long as your update interval is regular, you will get readers to come back. As an aim I would keep to write a post every single day. It is enough to show people that you are regular blogger that is worth following.

The type of your blog matters . If you have a tech blog, you must always keep writing about the new gadgets etc. There probably isn’t an upper limit for writing posts in a forum like that. For a personal blog, I would never write a lot more that one post a day, because frankly I do not believe that people will be that interested. Never bore your readers by writing posts that are nonsense. Only write when you feel like it and never just in order to post something.

Optimizing for Search Engines

Search engines love fresh content and often updated web sites. SEs spider sites with a certain interval. My sites get spidered about once every day. To always keep fresh content handy for SEs, I try to update daily. On the other hand, if you have a large site that gets spidered more often, you probably should update even more to maximise the SEO effect.

SEO is not something that you should focus on. Keep the focus on writing good content, that people will want to read constantly

Conclusion

If your posts have content and the updates are regular, there is no maximum amount of posts that you can write in a day. Key points:

  • Post regularly
  • Do not post nonsense and write just for the sake of writing
  • Try to write at least on post per day to keep people interested