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Ahhh yes, this is a common question asked not only by newcomers to the Steemit community, but pondered by several renowned Steemians as well. In fact, @jerrybanfield dedicated a post to this question about a week ago. At the present moment, there seems to be no specific answer to this question – it is simply a matter of both individual preference and convenience.

On one hand, there are quite a number of Steemians who are able to successfully post several times a day and generate plenty of upvotes, comments and earnings per post. On the other hand, there are other Steemians who post several hundred times a day and can barely generate a cent or even a view per post!

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Why the discrepancy? The big difference between the successful Steemians and the other Steemians posting several times a day is QUALITY! Regardless of how many times a day you are able to post, you must always produce articles of high quality – they need to be useful, informative and provide something new or of value to the community.

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Moreover, while there is no specific limit to the number of times you can post in a single day, you can’t be posting your articles within minutes of each other! So you can’t post an article when you wake up at 8 am and then continue posting your other articles at 1 minute intervals: 8:01, 8:02, 8:03, 8:04, 8:05, etc. Ladies and gentlemen, those aren’t blog posts – that’s SPAM! Any person on the platform will get immediately turned off if you’re posting at such an insane frequency each day. Not only will your articles get ignored – you might even start losing followers!

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In addition, if you post a multitude of times in a single day, you will probably just end up exhausting yourself. In fact, if you post over 5 times in one day, you might not summon the energy to post even once the next day! So not only are you mowing down your followers with a machine gun frequency of posts – you’re going to mess with your health too!

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Now that we’ve established that there is an unspoken upper limit to the amount of times you can post every day (more than 5 articles in a day is seriously pushing it!), let’s see if we can determine the lower limit.

At the very least, how many times should you post a day? This question is easier to answer – you should be posting at least one article a day! That’s right – you must post every single day if you want to stay active on the platform and continue gaining more followers and expanding an audience for your content. This is an especially important piece of advice for all minnows because it takes approximately 30 days to build a new habit.

So if you can post every day on Steemit for your first month on the platform, you will eventually become accustomed to creating blog posts each day – it will naturally become your favorite hobby! And do you know what happens when something becomes a hobby? We begin to enjoy it a LOT more and start excelling at it!

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Thus, you should aim to post at least once a day on Steemit and no more than 5 times in a day. If you do choose to post multiple times in a single day, make sure that you space each post by at least 3 hours. That way, each new post can attract a new audience at different times of the day as opposed to turning off the same audience if you post at smaller time intervals!

If you decide to write 5 blog posts, you can post the first one at 9 am, the second one at 12 pm, the third one at 3 pm, the fourth one at 6 pm, and the fifth one at 9 pm. As you can see, this posting schedule will attract five different audiences to your posts:

the “I usually read Steemit during work” crowd at 9 am,
the “I like to read my cell phone while eating” crowd at 12 pm,
the “I’m pretending to work while counting down the hours” folks at 3 pm,
the “I’m returning home from work and tired to the bone” people at 6 pm,
the “I like to read while eating dinner” party at 9 pm.

What if you can’t post more than once a day because of your day job or other daily commitments? That’s perfectly fine – I have a day job too and usually post only once a day! Just because there are other Steemians who are able to post several times a day, that doesn’t mean that you are required to post multiple times too! You should ONLY require yourself to post once a day, in order to maintain the habit of posting regularly on Steemit.

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For those of you that decide to post once a day, make sure that you try your best to produce an article of the highest quality possible! And aim to post your article at roughly the same time every day. Thus, your followers can have something new and awesome to enjoy around the same time each day – kind of like their favorite TV show!

Keep posting and never get discouraged! The upvotes and comments will come the more you post on Steemit and the higher you rise in Reputation. Also, please continue to engage your readers actively in the comments section – respond to all readers who comment on your articles as well as leave genuine and helpful comments on the articles you enjoy reading on Steemit!

How many times are YOU posting each day on Steemit? Let me know in the comments below and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Until next time, keep acing life!

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