(NOTE: this is part of the “Blogging tips” series)
Sometimes, you’re in a “blogging spree” - after you finish one post, you already have an idea for another. And then another, and another. Those times are great, you feel like you can take on the world, and you keep writing brilliant article after brilliant essay after brilliant opinion piece after brilliant guide after brilliant commentary.
You could say you’re “in the zone”.
But there can be a problem if you’re writing too quickly. Ping services may refuse all pings but the first. Your blog only shows on several “updated blogs” lists once, even though there are 3 or 4 new posts. Some “posts from different blogs, in chronological order” aggregators, such as Planeta Asterisco, will put all your posts together, which may cause some people to skip them as “too much stuff from this guy”.
So, it’s better if you put some time between them. Most blog services allow you to write posts in advance, by setting the time when they are published; for instance, in WordPress, there’s a “Post Timestamp” option, which by default is the current time, but which can be set to any date or time you want.
Now, suppose you write, say, 4 posts in a row, in a particular blog. Here you have several options:
- Split them between the whole day: 24/4=6, so make each post appear 6 hours after the previous one
- Same as above, but considering only local daytime - say, divide them equally between 8 AM and 10 PM
- Simply separate each by 1-2 hours.
All of these work fine, so it’s a matter of preference.
Something similar can also help on a larger scale: suppose you’re going away on holidays for a week. Writing 7 posts in advance, and making them appear on your blog, automatically, one per day, is a pretty good idea. 
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“Something similar can also help on a larger scale: suppose you’re going away on holidays for a week. Writing 7 posts in advance, and making them appear on your blog, automatically, one per day, is a pretty good idea.”
This is a fantastic idea, and I think I’ll have to keep it in mind if I’m going away anywhere in the near future.