Comments on: Blogging Rhythms 3 – Daily Rhythms

By: Darren Collins

Darren Collins — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:12:32 +0000

Like you, Darren, I post newsworthy stuff straight away and ‘evergreen’ stuff on a schedule.

For my One Stop Under blog (http://www.OneStopUnder.com), I often link to things like home pages of professional photographers, online tutorials, interesting articles, etc. I’ve currently got those queued up to appear every couple of days for the next month or so. Maybe once a week I go looking for new items, and add them to the end of the queue. If I find something seasonal (e.g. something related to Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, etc) I’ll post it with an appropriate date that could be as much as 12 months away.

I write about newsworthy stuff every day or two, and that fills in the gaps between the evergreen posts. If I can’t blog for a week, it’s not a major problem as I’ll still have content coming online every few days and the blog stays fairly fresh. This pattern seems to work well so far.

By: the english guy

the english guy — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:41:55 +0000

Ahhh you know that could be it – the Californians. Because 10/11 would be 7/8 their time, just relaxing after dinner. I didn’t think of that! I guess like a lot of people I tend to think of the country I’m in having one time zone.

By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:35:52 +0000

Hey English Guy, I get a similar boost in traffic in what is the late evening for me (California Time.) I’ve kind of assumed it was all those prolific Aussie bloggers ; )

By: the english guy

the english guy — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:54:11 +0000

As I post all day long I kind of expected to get traffic a few hours after each post, but mostly it’s US traffic reaching a peak in the late afternoon but strangely, another peak around 10/11pm. Since I post to my other blogs at the same time, similar traffic is found there too.

By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:19:46 +0000

When I started blogging I really expected to be doing most of my posting during the day, but for some reason I seem to have developed more of an inclination to blog at night. While this doesn’t coincide with when my fellow Americans are sitting at their computers, like John said above, I tend to just hit the publish button and send my posts one their way, no matter what time of day. Since most of my posts have a long shelf-life (ie, should be relevant for a decent amount of time,) and aren’t particularly time sensitive, it’s not something I’ve really thought much about.

I’ll have to give this some thought…and that’s exactly what I love about ProBlogger. It always gets me thinking :)

By: Lei

Lei — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:19:30 +0000

I write my genetics and public health posts whenever I find the time with an active toddler demanding my attention. My goal is to write about 2-3 posts a day (based on what you’ve recommended); one goes live in the morning, one at lunch, and one in the evening (GMT +7). I probably won’t time them for the U.S. timezone simply because if they go live when I’m not awake, I won’t have a chance to catch any typos or make minor re-writes before too many people see them.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:04:09 +0000

My old journalistic habits kick in when I’m blogging, so I hit the presses as soon as the idea is down on silicon. This means one burst of energy in the morning : 8 – 10 am UK time; another in mid-afternoon to reflect the oncoming traffic from the States, and another late evening when Australia is waking up and East-coast Americans are coming home from the office. Strange to say, I don’t have much contact with UK bloggers ~ I can think of half a dozen at most.

By: Yzabel

Yzabel — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:55:37 +0000

My own posting tends to be done on European evening prime-time, because it's when I've finished work and can write more freely... all that simply. However, it's not rare, when I write entries about topics that aren't "latest news" and don't demand to be posted quickly, that I write drafts whenever I have the time, or set the timestamp to later in the day so that it doesn't get posted at an odd hour such as 7 am (yes, I'm an early riser). The fact that I normally post once or twice a day at the most, for the moment, also frees me from considerations about not swamping my readers. I guess my blogging habits are still a little too young (or not "pro"enough) for me to really think of posting at the "right times", but now that you've mentioned it, it probably can't harm in any case to pay more attention to such rythms.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:00:25 +0000

thanks IO Error – Kidino is right. Australia is 10 hours ahead of GMT time which may seem way ahead to many of you who are west of us.

By: Kidino

Kidino — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:53:03 +0000

Maybe because Darren is FAR OFF in the east … where he gets the sunlight first … Me in Kuala Lumpur, maybe second after him …

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:34:39 +0000

Darren, this is probably a fine time to mention your blog’s RSS timestamps seem to be far off into the future. The trouble seems to be:

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:40:35 +0000

This may create an inconvenience for many of your loyal readers as the feeds carry the wrong timestamps. I think there’s a WordPress setting that fixes this…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:16:30 +0000

I think that this topic is probably of more concern to those who are blogging full time for a living. Having only two blogs myself that I hope will someday make some money, but mostly I blog for fun. Which means that my rhythm is that I blog whenever my other bits of life allow.

Potentially, for thos who are new, like I am, we could learn to choose beginning topics that are more likely to be found by search engine than to rely on the loyal reader, since it sounds like that kind would probably work best for the casual blogger who isn’t able to post throughout the day.

By: Neil Camp

Neil Camp — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:48:33 +0000

When I am posting, I try to post an article first thing in the morning, right after I get home from work, then roght before I go to bed. I would post throughout the day if my job allowed internet access. But, I do think about what I want to write during the down times.

By: Steve Pavlina

Steve Pavlina — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:18:32 +0000

I tend to average around 5 posts per week on my blog, but I often write posts in batches, sometimes a week’s worth in one day. Then I set the blogging software to make my posts go live at various times during the week. This allows me to do my blog writing at my personal peak times while setting posts to appear during visitors’ peak times.