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Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:19:37 +0000

[...] ing it. Problogger Darren Rowse has some interesting observations on what he calls “blogging rythms” or daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly patte [...]

By: Esther Kustanowitz

Esther Kustanowitz — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:23:36 +0000

I don’t know if I have a pattern. But now I’m feeling like I should! I run two blogs and frequently (almost daily) post over at a third, so I feel like I’m always blogging.

I’ve been plagued by a blog-blues since I noticed traffic begin to drop off, but now that I know it’s just seasonal blog depression, I feel a little less abandoned by readers…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:33:44 +0000

I have the most consistent rhythm. None. Approximately 12 people have visited my blog in it’s entire life (and I think 2 of them are me, and one is my wife LOL). Now, granted, it has only been up about 5 days, so it’s really not got a readership or anything. So my rhythm is simple. I post and post and post and just hope someone will read and be moderately interested. To keep myself busy and interested myself, I’ve started a second blog. The second blog is about the first blog and the various thoughts I’ve had while working on it. It’s probably the sillier of the two. Yeah, my life is great. LOL

Anyway, interesting thoughts, Darren. I have an 8 year old and I can relate to that sort of rhythm. You do kind of get into one that is largely dictated by them when they’re very small and then you spend the rest of your life trying to get them to get in step with the rest of the world. Hehe.

So, in relating that to blogs… is the answer to let them find their own rhythm, and then use that to determine how it fits in with the world’s? Hmm…. One thought that I had while reading your post, and which I thought was where you were taking this, was that you may want to try to find topics that will allow you to streamline and normalize your readership levels throughout the week. Have a good sports blog or two to keep the weekends hopping, and several more traditional ones for the weekday folk, etcetera, etcetera… But that’s probably a little too calculating.

By: David

David — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:13:58 +0000

Weekend traffic? lol… I don’t get much traffic, so I mainly try to post every day, atleast once a day. I am aiming for a 3 a day average right now, but with one full time and two part time jobs, I am pretty full-up when it comes to my schedule. I am working hard on making the time though, more for me than for my readers.

By: duncan

duncan — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:39:46 +0000

Now when are we going to see Darren Junior? My little bundle of joy turns 3 in August, and despite the wonders of having a two year old (they don’t call it the terrible two’s for nothing) I’d never go back, best thing we ever did.

Back to the blog side, you know my policy, I generally don’t blog on weekends, although I’ve noticed that not blogging for two days is a bit too much so I now have a “blogging at my leisure” policy for Saturday and Sunday where I blog when and if I feel like it, which usually means not at all Saturday (thats family – shopping time, given we don’t have Sunday trading here) and then maybe some light blogging Sunday afternoon/ evening.

By: Cary

Cary — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:27:14 +0000

Hmmm, interesting post as always Darren :)

My traffic definitely sinks on the weekends, and tends to be highest mid-week; it hasn’t been around long enough for me to get a good idea of any other rhythms yet, except for the purely random ones when I’m posting something that’s been big in the news (recently it’s been the Teflon/cancer scare.) Because of my wife’s condition, blogging much on the weekend isn’t really an option, as this is the real time I have to spend with her, and the truth is that when you’re living with cancer you just never know how long that time is going to last (actually, even when you’re NOT living with cancer you never know how long that time is going to last!) Better to make use of it wisely…

If & when she beats this thing I’d love to be able to get off at least one post on Saturday & Sunday, but I’m not a big fan of losing my whole weekend to blogging…I think it’s important for me personally to get some good flesh & blood interaction on the weekends ; )

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:22:56 +0000

We have a young family with another on the way, plus I run a web design business in my spare time! We use the weekends as family time, but the evenings to prepare content for two of our blog sites, which we then polish and release over the course of the week. This keeps the content fresh while allowing us to concentrate on the web design business during the week.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:19:40 +0000

Babies everywhere – being a Dad to a 19month old Boy, I guess we (As a family) have adapted to the rythms of daily life. Eventually you do need to bring in some sort of order to life however – after the first few months you start to anticipate the moods and feelings and adapt appropriately, but eventually end up on a cycle that suits your normal work routine.

Blog/website updates from my point of view occur during the slow periods – normally quite late at night (this fits in with having a toddler in the house) – basically between my UK visitors going to bed and the US visitors getting home from work.

As for visitor trends, mine stay fairly constant throughout the week, but peak friday/saturday/sunday, so I try and keep on top of the updates at the weekend to keep the peak visitors coming back. I guess car related sites tend to do better when the weather is bad and its the weekend, otherwise everyones out polishing/waxing/driving!

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:11:13 +0000

For folks who work in retail, there are a wide variety of overlapping shopping rhythms that coincide with the seasons, tourism, and holidays, and these rhythms can inform your retail blogging. Also, there’s something to be said for frequent posting, since there’s always a rise in traffic for my blog after a post.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:45:00 +0000

Nicely Put – Weekends are pretty slow for me to as far as revenue goes. But as far as rhythm goes, with having my own sites and customers, my rhythm is all over the place at the moment

By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:05:25 +0000

You know, sometimes things like this brings up special surprises. :-)

Anyway, great post! As a mum to an 18-mo.-old boy, I can definitely relate with the “go with your child’s rhythm” advice. I just don’t believe in the “sleeping schedule” thing. It can be tough, but I’ve got a healthy, happy baby. So, I must be doing some right. ;-)

Blogs, however, have a different way when it comes to rhythm. I believe, this one evolves — not always by itself. You see, I think we, as “parents” to our blogs have more control over them, as compared to a baby.

Babies are their own persons.

Blogs are — and can be — what we want them to be.

By: Banklocater

Banklocater — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:46:41 +0000

Sundays are usually pretty slow for me. However, yesterday (a Sunday) I decided to post all my new stuff for monday so I could sleep in and traffic jumped probably due to people checking their RSS feeds. So it seems that I have some control over traffic.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:36:22 +0000

ProBlogger becomes BroodyBlogger. ;-) Hold the front page!