I have a couple blogs that are not regularly updated, but are text rich and illustrated for each post with a "sexy" image that links to a gallery or gallery sets I make myself; so I get traffic from both search engine results and submitting.
Those who don't care to read can just jump straight to the gallery; those who find the gallery can click to the blog.
I don't automate any of it, except sometimes to write a post or two ahead of time and schedule them.
Sometimes it's better not to update daily - if you want to get decently indexed, eventual SE traffic; but you just don't get pinged as often...
