Friday is the last day of the week. In many firms where the workers are obligated to wear an official cloths like a suit, there exists a concept of a Casual Friday. On this day you may put on free time cloths like jeans and t-shirts. That was new for me to read out at yigg.de, that the same concept can be also applied to a blog. The idea is that once a week you write postings on topics that have little in common with the main theme of your blog. For example you are specialized in publishing of some IT articles, but on Friday you write about the most popular and discussed events. On one hand your readers have an entertainment and a bit variety on your blog. On the other hand using popular key words you make your blog attractive for the search engines. The blog visitors who come from search engines to you, may leave your site quite quickly again, but still it’s a kind of advertisment for your blog. Maybe they remember that your blog is specialized in IT and if they have some day a problem they will come back to you.

I find the Concept of a Casual Friday quite nice. In any case I don’t see any negative aspects, that could harm your constant readers. Maybe I’ll even add a new category on my blog as an experiment, let’s see then whether this concept is really good and suitable for blogging.

July 4th, 2007 at 5:35 pm | category: Blogging