One common mistake — particularly among beginning bloggers — is to treat all of the thoughts that come to you at one time as one post. You might sit down to start writing about the day’s news and end up jumping from one story to another and back again before you’re finished.

Resist the temptation to cover multiple, unrelated subjects in one post.

If you find yourself wanting to include multiple topics in one post, write multiple posts instead. Not only will your readers be able to browse your content far more efficiently, but your blog will look fuller (more posts is usually a good thing), your posts will be better written (multiple topics in one post leads to convoluted analysis), and other bloggers will be more likely to link to the specific points you make.

And if you do split a post into two, try post-dating them so that they don’t all go up at once.

Do you agree?