Comments on: Weekend Blogging Strategy

By: J Baker

J Baker — Fri, 12 May 2006 17:40:54 +0000

Hi Darren,
I try to post every day, weekends included. I realize that my stats are down on the weekend, but it’s that number of people that return faithfully, day in day out, to read my posts and I feel guilty if I don’t take the time out to put something up there for them. Since I’m posting about one small area, it isn’t easy to come up with something interesting every day and since I don’t follow protocol with my feed, it’s doubly difficult. I use my web site rather than a template so I have to write copy for my feed, copy format to over to the web site, add pictures and change the picture of the day on yet another web page, and upload all three as well as the new images in their respective files on my server. So it ain’t easy sweetheart! But I still do it every day because my region is suffering pretty badly right now and needs all the help it can get.
By the way, have a great weekend!
J

By: gary

gary — Mon, 08 May 2006 20:02:11 +0000

having a full time job & three kids, i don’t have a lot of spare time for me on the weekends. that said, i still have more “me” time than during the week. during the week, i typically write 1 or 2 posts a day in my primary blog. on the weekends i may write anywhere from one to 3 posts a day, but they are usually something fun or a response to something i’ve seen on tv. as traffic grows & i move closer to actually making money, i plan on spending more time writing during the week.

By: Finance crash-test dummy

Finance crash-test dummy — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:32:21 +0000

My weekends are usually a mix of your prescribed notions.

Saturday’s I like to prepare (and publish if they’re ready) some of my ‘big’ posts – in the midst of Saturday morning soccer for my 10 year old – while Sundays is definitely a day of rest.

When I first started I would try and post every day but found I wasn’t being very creative. Having a day off without even turning the computer on refuels my capacity to focus and be as creative as I possibly can be.

By: shane

shane — Mon, 08 May 2006 01:38:14 +0000

WOw im out of the box on this one, i almost always only post on weekends its almost the only time i have to post. Nice insight though. Maybe i aughta change that huh. make money blogging online

By: R. Tyler Banfield

R. Tyler Banfield — Sun, 07 May 2006 21:48:45 +0000

Doug,
This question is off topic, but here’s the answer. Blended ads are the most effective. You should set the ad background and borders to match the color of your blog’s background, and also match the link color and text color to that of your blog. From my experience, text only ads are the most effective if they are targetted. If you would like to discuss the issue further, feel free to email me.

By: Doug Kenline

Doug Kenline — Sun, 07 May 2006 18:56:55 +0000

How can I remove the borders from my text only Google Adsense ads?

I think I read somewhere that the ads pull better if they blend into your blog and are not set out by borders and different back ground color, no?

What pulls better, text only ads, or text only and image ads combo?

I’ll try to do a little bit of research myself but I thought I’d just drop this note here and see if anybody here might be able to help me as well.

Thanks.

Doug Kenline
Atlanta, Georgia USA

By: Virtual Entrepreneur - » Blogging On Weekends

Virtual Entrepreneur - » Blogging On Weekends — Sun, 07 May 2006 16:29:50 +0000

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By: Mrs Money

Mrs Money — Sun, 07 May 2006 15:03:58 +0000

Hi, Darren!

I really enjoy your tips ;) Congrats!

I head a brazilian branch of a professional blog and I’ve also started my own blog Virtual Entrepreneur. For both blogs I catch up on posts during the weekend too and I’m still posting good stories aswell, one on Saturday and another on Sunday against the 5 I post from M-F. That helps the stats not to drop down while most simply don’t post or post light articles. But it all depends on the weather. If it’s sunny outside, who wants to sit in front of the PC the whole day? lol Get yourself out and inspiration will come :)

Cheers from Brazil!

By: fmsra

fmsra — Sun, 07 May 2006 15:03:27 +0000

Thanks for the tips, Darren.

No wonder, my hits are so low, I tend to post on a Saturday-when I am free, or on Mondays, when I am frustrated. Yes, I do notice that Saturdays are the days where it is really low traffic.

Perhaps you could consider writing a piece on what is the best time to post? Which day, and whether it is day time or night time? We will all benefit from your experience.

Cheers

By: chase

chase — Sun, 07 May 2006 05:35:41 +0000

I still like to blog on the weekends!

By: Franck

Franck — Sun, 07 May 2006 05:05:26 +0000

I don’t have a weekend stategy yet, I am blogging like any other day for now. May be I will change that in the future.

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Sat, 06 May 2006 23:29:42 +0000

“Catch up time” is my strategy every two weeks. I go through all my notes taken lately and try to figure out what small stories I missed and who of my potential ad clients needs an email note about subjects published. I also try to take care of the pictures taken lately and what to do with it. Another thing is the technical maintenance; I try out new things and do some in depth research about features I might want to integrate into my site(s). What I want to do more in the future is to develop drafts and to produce “advance posts” …

By: lulu

lulu — Sat, 06 May 2006 22:15:42 +0000

Entertaining post, I think if you have worked hard blogging all week, you should take the weekend to enjoy and relax, but if you didn’t work hard, then you better do over-time :-)

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 06 May 2006 21:56:19 +0000

i think it depends a lot on your niche and genre – at my blog is the weekend best in whole week with most visitors. so i blog usually more than during the week, because i have also usually more time to write new posts…

By: JAMINUSA

JAMINUSA — Sat, 06 May 2006 21:54:04 +0000

My weekend blogging strategy is my only strategy. I write posts for the upcoming weekend. I don’t have time to write a whole lot during the week, mainly because I work a full time job, am a single dad raising two boys on my own, and I have to help them do homework, get baths, play with them , spend time with them.

Their mother is not in the picture at all so I am a pretty busy fella through the week. On weekends, I have to stay up at late at night or I have to send them outside for while.

By: Yandel

Yandel — Sat, 06 May 2006 21:04:54 +0000

Well on weekends i really take the time off to spend with family beacuse i don’t want to spend every single day on my computer, it’s not good.

By: Cary

Cary — Sat, 06 May 2006 20:13:51 +0000

Life’s too short to post on weekends!

Actually, I take the weekend off, but on Sunday nights I write one post for each of my blogs (to pre-post for early Monday morning,) plus one extra post for each blog (to stockpile for when I take vacations!)

Works quite well :)

By: WhyMyBlogStinks

WhyMyBlogStinks — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:47:56 +0000

My business blog I slow down a bit on the weekends but still try to post. If I can’t on Sunday… no sweat…

Personal blogs I skip the weekends. Mostly a once a day post monday through friday.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:17:08 +0000

If I think of something interesting to blog about on the weekend, and I feel like doing it, and I have the time to do it, or if I’m just really bored, I’ll go ahead and post on a weekend. But for me, the blogging week is Monday through Friday.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 06 May 2006 17:47:21 +0000

I’m none of the above. M-F are content days. I use weekends for backing up all of my sites and databases, performing any necessary server maintenance/upgrades, implementing new layout tweaks, and processing statistics for the past seven days.

I also typically use it to drop feeds in my RSS reader that don’t interest me anymore and to seek out new sources. Basically I use the weekends to do all those things that revolve around blogging that don’t involve actually writing content.