Most of your activity as a blogger will involve you writing articles. But unless your blog or website is your full-time job, it won’t always be possible to write a new article every day or even every week. Plus, if you realize there are still revenues coming in, without you having added any new articles, you may stop publishing articles altogether for a while. But is this an option?

The question arises whether it’s possible to earn money with only minimal content. There are many small ‘blogs’ or new affiliate sites that consist only of affiliate-program text, product images or affiliate links. Often, any wording that does exist is simply reproduced from manufacturer sites or the Amazon website, without writing any original content. Nowadays, the people who set up and manage such websites won’t have any visitors and more importantly, no revenue. Writing your own unique content is very important and is expected by regular visitors to your site.

For most bloggers and site owners, Google is the primary source of site traffic. It’s safe to assume that a majority of your site visitors will come this way. In order to have your content displayed prominently in search results, it’s important to not only have good and unique content, but also new content. This is one of the main reasons why you should regularly post new articles.

It’s not a sensible strategy to target a narrow range of keywords. A site typically won’t rank for the first search-result position on just a single keyword, so it’s important to try and rank for a broader range of keywords. This ensures a diverse range of visitors come to your site and good revenue can be obtained in this way. In order to create this range-enhancing, it is necessary to have a lot of products on your site, which is why you should publish new content regularly.

If you regularly post new content, you build up your range of site topics – and this means more opportunities to install Affiliate Links. If you have hundreds of products with Affiliate Links, you can usually look forward to many daily commissions: but you do still have to include informative articles as well, to keep a nice balance of content on your website.

Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels have become increasingly important in recent years for bloggers. New content offers more possibilities to publish links to the various social networks for more attention, backlinks and traffic. By publishing new content regularly and sharing on social media, there’s a likelihood of driving incremental traffic to your site.

You shouldn’t underestimate the psychological effect of publishing new content. Readers who find plenty of interesting articles on your site are more likely to point others in its direction, building a trustworthiness and confidence in its content. And this confidence is important, because only when visitors trust your website will they select to buy recommendations in the form of Affiliate Links.

In short, regular blogging simply helps your become a better writer. You’ll accumulate a lot of new know-how, which naturally helps to further improve your website or blog, and also helps you tackle new projects.

There are no hard-and-fast rules. It almost always comes down to the amount of time you can spare to write articles. If you run a blog in your free time after work, you will clearly invest less time in it than someone who treats blog writing as a part-time job. If you want to make your blog a primary source of income, then the more time you can spend on it, the greater your chances of success. Start with the general guideline of publishing a new article or a different type of content at least once a week, and take it from there: a tip from us would be that once you’ve researched a topic area, then write more than one article about it while the research is fresh in your memory.