Two Reasons Why I Stopped Doing Day-Specific Posts, and How They Can Be Beneficial

In the world of blogging, there is a lot of advice available online. One recommendation I’ve heard repeatedly was posting specific types of content on certain days of the week. I did this for several months here on Cheap Retro Gaming.

For example, Monday was for news, Tuesday explored online deals, and Friday shared free games I was able to find. However, I have since decided to stop doing these day-specific posts.

The First Reason: They Make Me Inflexible

There are a couple of reasons I’ve changed my mind on this posting strategy. The first is that they contributed to making my schedule inflexible. Sure, I could post whatever I wanted on Wednesday and Thursday. Yet, the other three days of the week were reserved in the sense of what topics I could discuss.

This meant that even if a retro-related news item was released on Thursday, I couldn’t discuss it until Monday. By that time, two dozen other websites would have already picked up the story anyway. Thus, making my post old news. Many outlets may have already moved on to something else by that point, too.

Likewise, short-term deals that may be gone by the end of the weekend had to wait until Tuesday. Usually, this meant that such offers wouldn’t be shared at all because they would expire by Tuesday anyway.

Eventually, I became rather frustrated with the delay of my posts. Even though I would work hard on them to give readers what they needed to know, Google or other search engines would probably have their “favorites” picked by that point. Thus, my posts wouldn’t be included in the first two pages of their results either.

The Second Reason: They Don’t Perform As Well

Another area of concern about these day-specific posts was that they weren’t performing as well as my regular reviews. To me, this was rather disappointing.

I mean, one reason why I started this site was to share the deals I found on bundle sites and let people know of new versions of old games. These later releases are often much more economical than earlier versions.

Some examples of the contrast between two different versions of games include,

Those were just a few examples of what I was excited to share with readers through this blog. Sadly, my deals posts were among the worst performing on the site. Once I noticed such a poor click-through rate for these articles I realized that my initial vision couldn’t be fulfilled completely.

To recap, two of the big reasons why I decided to stop doing day-specific articles were because of the inflexibility they caused and that they didn’t perform as well as other posts.

Still, I can think of a couple reasons why day-specific posts may be a valuable part of some blogger’s content creation strategy, even if they are not the best for me.

A Positive Reason: Readers Know What To Expect

One aspect that I thought was cool about doing a specific schedule for may of my posts was that readers knew what to expect week to week.

Over the last past year I have received some great feedback from readers. One thing I learned is that some readers looked forward to specific posts because they knew they would come on a certain day. Such as the Friday’s Free Games.

I think if one has a particularly engaged readership, this kind of consistent schedule may be particularly helpful. It reminds me of when subscribers look forward to a new video each week on YouTube or other video sharing sites.

Another Positive Reason: It Helps You Get Into a Flow With Your Posts

As a content creator, one area that I particularly enjoyed was how it became quite easy to develop an effective, reproducible cycle of when to work on certain posts. I didn’t have to wonder what parts of an article had to be worked on for a certain day.

For example, I knew that for my Friday’s Free Games I could spend an hour or so going through the most recent free games on Steam on Monday’s. On Wednesday, I would start cleaning up the text I made two days earlier. I’d also begin grabbing the game images after work. On Thursday, I’d find the links to the titles on the Epic Games Store. These actions were all easy to remember.

Eventually this repetition had a calming nature to it. I became used to just doing certain actions during the week and appreciating the process. Knowing that I was building a useful body of work that would grow as site developed over the year (and later) gave my week-to-week actions a greater purpose and meaning as well.

Concerning YouTube

On a different note, I’ll just say that I have chosen to not continue posting on YouTube at this time. After preparing 6 additional videos on my channel in the last 2 months, I’ve came to the realization that I don’t have the bandwidth to prepare 3-5 posts a week on this blog and also produce videos on that platform.

Due to this decision, I have removed my YouTube link from the header. If my situation changes that would allow me to prepare such content in the future, I will explore that possibility again.

Final Thoughts

Having shared all that, I am excited about the increased freedom that I have by not preparing day-specific posts anymore. Also, I can tell you that I plan on removing under performing content from this site over the next several months. I expect that news, deals, and free games posts that don’t receive any hits will be removed from the site over the next quarter.

I hope that their removal will improve the average quality of my content on the site and remove bloat fro m Cheap Retro Gaming.

Finally, I have several directions I’d like to take this website, and I hope that my regular readers will begin to see some of these as the months progress in this new year.

Thanks to those of you who have been here in 2025, and I look forward to helping out more people through this medium in 2026 and beyond. Thank you!

Concerning the thumbnail image, it was done by geralt, and can be found on Pixabay.