[bad_user]

I disagree with the 90% / 10% thing.

I was a very active blogger in my native language at some point, but I had only like 50 subscribers and maybe 300 page views in a good week.

I then switched to English and wrote only a dozen of articles or so. One of them was hard to write, basically a HOW-TO article who's implementation I had to write and test before I wrote the article. I also work full-time for a living and it took 3 days to write that article (a really long time for most bloggers).

Enough to say that a single well-researched article was more valuable, bringing in more subscribers than my previous shitty blog on which I talked about shitty things in a fire-and-forget style. And this was also kind of depressing, as if you want to be a successful blogger, you need hundreds of these good articles that take a lot of effort to write.

The way I see it - it's the same as with software development - 80% development / 80% polishing / 80% marketing.

[reinhardt]

Strange, you bring up the fact that you switched to English and then completely ignore it as a potential factor in the conclusion.

[indrax]

I think it was relevant in that he was starting from scratch with a new audience.

[mkr-hn]

Not everyone has a style that's suited for short or less thought out posts. I get about the same engagement with 500 words and 50, so I don't worry too much about it unless it's something controversial.