Weekends Blogging Contents Guide
In My Traffic Is Gone! My Blog Is Dying!, I once said that a traffic shortage on a blog might be due to a holiday. Almost all countries have weekends as their holidays. During weekends, most people including your readers might be lazing around, not wanting to touch their computer and even they do, they are in a lazy mode. Your number of comments will fall and you will see a slide in your traffic.
I will be sharing a few tips on the aspects on weekend blogging which will add value to your blog but at the same time not making you presenting to the wall.
No Pillar Articles
Pillar articles are contents that are really important to your blog. These are the great posts and you will be expecting a huge inflow of traffic using these articles. If you post these during weekends, readers might not have the chance to see it on top of your blog because it was pushed down through the chronological system of a blog. Linkbaiting mails will be left alone in the inbox of bloggers whom you tried to bait as they are enjoying their weekends.
Pillar articles posted during the weekends might give you the impression that your articles are not great but this is not the case. You just need to post it at the right time and weekends is certainly not the time!
Simple Value Posts
How to add value but at the same time not giving out too much? Answering all the questions asked by your readers during weekends will be a great way of achieving that. The questions asked will be relevant to the topic you are blogging about but and at the same time, you will be getting response, either by those who have more questions and the readers who asked you the questions.
A good link attack providing links to good articles, your opinions to it and value added to the link by you will certainly make the weekend post juicy enough to attract weekend readers’ attention.
News and Events
Weekends are the days that most events will be held and sometimes, I do see a lot of interesting news popping out during the weekends. When you are time-stamping your posts, please make sure that you leave out the weekends for these kind of posts. Weekend news and events will always catch people attentions and make them talking as controversies or discussions will be covered widely by the traditional media or by words of mouth.
What you have to do to make your readers talking is to add in your opinion and thoughts about the event and all the discussions will be kicked off.
Short and Direct
People are lazy during weekends and if you are forcing them to read a long article, I don’t think most of them will finish it and this will not make them talking! Write up a short post, maybe three paragraphs to five paragraphs, and post it immediately. In the post, make sure that you lay down the facts clearly and and it must be packed with questions to ignite discussion.
At one glance, your readers can finish the article and immediately start commenting. This is what we want. Our readers will be happy with us because we are not wasting their precious weekend hours. Wayne Liew Dot Com will be excluded from this rule as this is a post to teach you what to post during weekends. Wake up! 
Don’t Go Off-Topic
I know that weekends are blog traffic slow points but don’t go off-topic. Do you know there are a lot of readers like Wayne Liew who stalked your blog even during weekends? If you go off-topic, I will be mad at you because you are wasting my time visiting you for a post which is not of the reason why I bookmarked your blog!
Going off-topic means you used to be blogging about tech gadgets but during weekends, your blog becomes a food blog or you are a weight loss blogger but during the weekends, you become a blog for soccer for example. Please be aware that sponsored posts are included as well. Writing sponsored posts is an easy content for blogs but please make sure that it is relevant or close to your topic.
Posting Frequency - Avoid Weekends
If you don’t want to go through all the troubles of all the troubles above, the one and for all solution for your problems is to avoid the weekends. Have a posting frequency of two days a post or three days a post. This does not only keep yourself away from the problems I have addressed above, it will also help your weekend readers to understand that you will not be posting during weekends.
Your Turn to Give Lesson
Most people spend less time on the Internet and I have compiled a list of tips on weekend posts. Do you have more to add on? What do you normally post on weekends and do you read blogs just like how serious you read it during weekends? Why are you reading Wayne Liew Dot Com today?
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What do u think of my posting frequency?
Absolutely agree with your thoughts. Going off topic will definitely hurt your visitors. When you are blogging in a particular niche, it’s always important to write posts which are related to your niche.
Post frequency and the timestamps of new post should be consistent. This will help your readers save time. As John Reese says, its about serving your visitors and one should always follow these little ignored things to give visitors a great experience when they visit your blog!
This is a nice blog your are brewing up here! Keep up the good work!
I am guilty of breaking the rule “No Pillar Articles” and one of my important posts suffered for that.
I just started off my new blog and my pillar article is “any PR0 blog can make money”
@Sara
Congratulations for your attractive domain name… I am surprised no one thought of this name before… accept my best wishes for your blog…
Some of your suggestions don’t really come across as the total truths about weekend blogging. What you are writing are mainly perceptions taken from the opinions of others. It’s like a bucket full of holes, so it doesn’t hold water.
There have been plenty of good posts over the weekend that continues to attract traffic as they push into the weekdays where more and more people catch up on these posts.
“What do you normally post on weekends and do you read blogs just like how serious you read it during weekends?”
Erm. No idea also. I’ll write up got anything interesting worth sharing with the rest of the world. Didn’t know about the weekend blog traffic dropping thingie until I read this guide you wrote.
“Why are you reading Wayne Liew Dot Com today?”
No idea really, I check your site from time to time for blogging tips and advices.
Nice write up, keep up the good work, mate.
Cheers!
posting too fast and potential readers or visitors might be unable to catch up with what you are doing.
Weekends is the time when people go out and have fun and do stuff. So, it’s best not to post anything on weekends. Because no one is going to read it. My opinion that is.
@ Kitkat
Consistency is very important. Choose a frequency that you are most comfortable with.
@ Online Money
Thanks for your visit and comment.
Small things are always being dropped by bloggers and sometimes it is sad to see a blog fails because of these nitty gritties.
@ Jalaj
Hold yourself until the right time has come before posting a pillar article.
@ Sara
You have a nice blog and as Jalaj says, you have a cool domain as well. Happy blogging and good luck with your new blog.
@ nickelblue
No doubt there are good articles posted over the weekends and people will comment on it. I am writing here guides for people who are on the way to blogging success and not for those who are in authority that get comments on every posts they write.
Quality articles on weekends, if you monitor the blog closely, there will be not much posts following the pillar article if it is posted during the weekends since the blogger will need more coverage for the post.
Pillar articles tend to be evergreen but the buzz at the start is important to get the post to the level to “evergreen”.
@ Deimos
Thanks for reading my site from time to time.
@ kljs
Yes, I have my best reader supporting me!
Suddenly I realise about the going off-topic you mentioned in my blog, and I didn’t do that only in the weekends, I do that almost all the time! Probably my niche is being random? Lol I don’t know -.-
Yes, you are right! The traffic during weekends is low! Cannot blame, I myself also dun blog during weekends.
@ yung .
Random blogs are free from guides. As long as a way is positive to your blog, it is a good way.
@ jam
When you don’t post during weekends, it is hard to grab weekends traffic because your loyal visitors will know that you will not be posting.