How Often Is Too Often?

I created this blog site one week ago with the intention of posting either every day or every other day. I've kept up with that for the most part. I took a day or two off in the process, but have already made 6 posts. This is my 7th post. I guess I'm trying to figure out whether or not I'm posting too often.

I over analyze everything. I always have. I know there's a fine line between making sure that you get enough exposure and over saturating your audience with posts. It's kind of the same with streaming. If you stream too long and too often then you can overwhelm your regular viewers. I'd imagine it's like that with blogging. If you make too many posts it's possible that a regular could miss a few posts, think that they're not going to be able to catch up, and decide not to try.

I did a quick Google search on the optimal number of blog posts. This is what I found. This is the AI answer from Google at least.

The ideal blogging frequency depends on your goals, target audience, and industry. Most experts agree that blogging two to four times per week is a good target. However, some recommend posting more often for competitive niches. 

I don't necessarily think I would say that I'm in a competitive niche. I guess I'm really not sure. That's something I need to do more research on. I would imagine that I kind of fit into 3 categories: gaming, streaming, and beer. Gaming and streaming are definitely my main categories. I honestly don't know how competitive they are as blogging categories though.

As I write this I decided to try to do a quick search on Gaming and Streaming blogs. I wasn't really able to find very much. I don't think that necessarily means that they don't exist. It just means that I was having a hard time finding them. Maybe I wasn't necessarily using the right search terms.

I guess in a way I'm kind of answering my own question here. In order to know how many times I need to post I need to: find out who the other bloggers in similar categories are, analyze how frequently they post, and kind of decide how often I should post based on that information. I want to keep in mind my current community at the same time though. Most of my community is here with me because of who I am and not necessarily because of the fact that I'm a streamer.

So if you're reading this and you're one of the members of my community then how many times would you like to see me post? If you're someone that recently found me and you might want to read more of my material...how often would you be willing to read one of my posts? I think I could fairly easily do one post a day. I'm posting this on a Sunday, and I'm technically writing it the night before.

Unless I start making these be longer and more detailed posts, which I don't really think is something that I would want to do anyway, I could probably crank out all of the posts for a week in a day or two. I did a brain storm session today on titles for my upcoming blogs just to make sure that I don't run out of content. Trust me, I don't have any shortage of material to work with for future posts.

I don't think there's really much more for me to put in this post. I'm starting to get in the realm of things where I'm going to be repeating myself. I guess I am going to repeat myself one more time to end this post. How often is too often for making blog posts? If I keep my posts to bite size content like this then would it be ok to post once a day?

Should I go for more like 3-4 posts a week?

Realistically I should be able to do either and keep up with it fairly easily. I just want to know what y'all prefer, because my blog is only me talking to myself if I don't have anyone reading it.