THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT

As with most things there are at least two opposing positions on this question. Should blog posts all be long, or is it OK to include short posts?

One side says every blog post must be a full length fully researched masterpiece with at least 200 references while the other side says “who gives a fuck, post whatever you want, it's your blog”.

One guess which side I identify with. In fact my first blog was more like a daily tweet and I used to have a lot of fun posting all sorts of random shit. My weekly randoms posts that I do now with 10 images would have been 10 days blog posts back then.

But that was over 25 years ago before social media and blogs were even called blogs.

To decide this debate all I can either go on is which is more fun or which type of blogging brings in more hits? Anything goes is certainly more fun but does it bring in more hits?

My own experiments have lead me to believe that while long posts do bring in the most views, short posts are better than nothing as far as the hit count goes.

On a Wordpress blog where readers are choosing to click on one post from a preview of it, having hundreds of one line posts is a distracting pain in the arse.

But on a Blogger blog which is what this blog is, it's an almost endless feed you can doom-scroll through, and short posts work fine.

Very long posts become like separate worlds of their own in an endless feed and are probably better off posted as pages.

I'm not an AI bot analyzing all the viewing patterns, but as far as I can tell from my occasional glances at the hit counter, what works best is one post of some sort every day, and that includes a reasonably long post about once a week.

Posts that are just images with no words don't seem to count for much, even if there are lots of images. Every post seems to need some words, even if it is only one line

So I've just answered my question here haven't I ?

Blog post should be daily, they should be however long I feel like, but they should all include some words. On a blogger blog, posts as short as one line of text with one image work OK but it's best to mix those in with longer posts to create a more interesting feed to scroll through.

So I will continue do that and those boring cunts who say every post must be a thesis can fuck off.