I'm still pretty new to blogging, so I'm curious how other people deal with this? Do you let a post meander into different subjects, or do you break it into another post when you start veering off topic?

I grew up in New England, where we feel like we have a monopoly on fall leaves. It's actually pretty nice out here in Seattle in that regard, so yesterday I took my camera into the mountains to take advantage. And it's a photo blog, so I made a post out of photos from the area. But the mountain lake I went to is its own subject apart from the colored leaves, and I'm not sure I did the best job tieing them together.

Anyone mind letting me know if this post makes sense? And how you would have dealt with the topics? Gold Creek Pond & Seattle Area Foliage In particular, I think the last photo is a pretty good one, but I'm not sure it makes sense without too much back story to put into a single post?





Wildly unrelated ... except when you look at those vibrant yellow trees in the first image, and the out of focus ones behind the girl in the last image. I know that's an abstract connection ... so how would other people approach it?

There's a tie-in (autumn). I'd say that's one post.

Why isn't the middle pic watermarked? You usually tag all your shots.

My short answer is that I try to keep one post to one topic. That tends to be compatible with the attention span and concentration style of most blog readers. However, since your blog is not text-heavy, I think the photos themselves center on one topical area, and the text ties them together well. Your sense of topical flow seems to be in good working order.

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

Why isn't the middle pic watermarked? You usually tag all your shots.

Good catch ... that was an oversight on my part, from staying up too late to finish the post. I need to go back and fix that!

Forrest I think it depends on the post. I generally try to have one theme tying a post together, but it's possible at times I'm the only one who sees that theme.

Ultimately your readers will decide if you've meandered too much.

Your post makes sense to me, though the sense it makes to me could be different from the sense it makes to someone else. Don't hold back the connections you see. That's why someone will read your post. You see something connecting those images that someone else might not see. Explain it and we might start to see it too.

You could mention something quick about it in one post and then write another post explaining it in more depth. You don't have to get everything into one post, but you also don't have to hold anything back.

I try to stick to one topic per post. I think if I was the reader I would have trouble staying interested long enough to read both "topics" in the post.

Originally Posted by MrBrownThumb

I try to stick to one topic per post. I think if I was the reader I would have trouble staying interested long enough to read both "topics" in the post.

I'm in the same boat. Pretty much unless your blog is like a diary, where you can let your thoughts drift, people go to your blog for a certain topic. And to me, it would appear that its more "professional" if you had one topic per post.