Yesterday I talked about why you should post on the weekends and today I’m going to play the devil’s advocate and take the other side.
There are a number of good reasons to post on the weekend. It can help bring in new readers, keep you posting consistently, and will help you differentiate your self from other bloggers in your niche. A question you might have is with all of these plus’ how can you say you shouldn’t post on the weekends?
While there aren’t as many reasons not to post on the weekends there still are a few and here are some of them.
Not as much traffic
Most people don’t receive as much traffic on the weekend as they do during the week. This may be that their readers surf the web more during work and spend the weekend with family. Because of the smaller traffic numbers these people think that they should release their best posts when there will be more readers to read them.
Spend the time organizing
Instead of posting, use your time to better your blog. One of the best things you can do is organize your week ahead of you. Organizing your week is a great way to stay atop of your posting schedule, it can help you post daily, create better content and improve your blog.
While I think that you should post on the weekends there are a few reasons why you shouldn’t. If you have any reasons why you shouldn’t post on the weekend feel free to add it in the comments section. If you think I’m totally nuts you can voice that too 
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December 16th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I’m going to respectfully disagree. When I write on the weekend, my stats for the front end of the work week are much higher. I don’t believe it does much for my weekend traffic, but I think I’ve done it with such consistency that many of my readers love to come to my site on Monday or Tuesday to see what I wrote over the weekend.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I have no problem posting on the weekends, but I prefer to write it during the week and then just schedule the post for the weekend.