Just when i thought i’m the only one ..

I saw the Problogger interview with Tim Ferris, author of The 4–Hour Workweek book … and it writes :

Darren : What have you learnt about blogging since starting yours a month ago? Teach us oh wise one!

Tim : LOL… I don’t claim to have all of the answers, of course. Not even most of them, but I’m a pretty good “reductionist”. That just means that I question what everyone is doing and ask myself: if I ignore what’s popular, what everyone says you “have to do,” what actually works? I cut out all the fat and look at just the highest-impact variables.

For example, I’ve been told I need to post everyday, but when I really looked at the facts, a different picture emerged.

i’ve found that if i post less often, my blog has a sine wave sign-up curve. in other words: if i post just infrequently enough (for me, once every 4-6 days), the comments add up on each post, making the site look very popular, and rss subscriptions spike. if i post too often, it doesn’t look popular (since posts get pushed down and comment-count is low), so it is actually better for my site to post less often! love it when that happens…

Well … at first i thought i’m the only one who’s experiencing this but after reading that post … now i’m sure there’re other who’s experiencing the same situation like me too. So what’s the point of telling you this ? well … im sure that most of you already read various blogging tips, and most of them says write often for various reasons. And as you can see, not all the tips from various sources can be applied to your site, because every site has difference audience (for example, i can be categorized as a full-time lurker and rarely leave comment unless i feel necessary)

Although in reality when i search for Tim Ferris blog and found it at Fourhourworkweek.com … i saw that his site has more comments compared to this site, even i can see comments on all of his post lol …