Do not rely on linking posts

Do not rely on linking posts

Many bloggers start out writing 4 or 5 quality posts per week. But after a couple of months, due to lack of time or because they are running out of ideas, they gradually reduce the number of pure content posts on a weekly basis.
A common (yet not optimal) solution for this problem are the “linking posts”. Instead of sitting, thinking and taking the time to write a quality post said blogger will just gather a couple of links a post them with the title “Links for 2006-11-10″.
Even if those links offer a good reading you should avoid doing that regularly. Once in a while should be fine, just make sure that you are not throwing out linking posts every other day. You need to think why your readers are coming to your blog, after all. A good guess would be: because they value the knowledge you have, because it can help them in some way, because they are interested in your opinion. I mean, if the readers were looking purely for links they would rather head to Digg or Delicious, don’t you think?