Comments on: What Do You Spend Most Time Doing on Your Blog?

By: Culinary Cory

Culinary Cory — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:13:00 +0000

I write a food blog. So my time is divided between three main areas. Creating recipes and supporting stories, testing, and photographing the food in a creative way. I’ve started to get into a groove where I can batch my posts and schedule them over time. This gives me more time to focus on researching need ways to interact with my readers.

By: Georjina

Georjina — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:28:49 +0000

I’ve recently moved to hosting my own Wordpress blog and my time is being spent attempting to fix it. I’m getting there, but it’s definitely not as easy as I thought…it’s probably a little bit of me and a whole lot of ‘wrong template’:)

Wish me luck – I’ll need it!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:34:30 +0000

Content. Definitely Content. For a long time I mucked around with the design, all the bells and whistles and such just trying to figure it all out. What I figured out is that it is the content that brings people in, and keeps them coming back!

By: rohan

rohan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:55:19 +0000

i spend lots of time in custmising my blog …

By: Marf

Marf — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:00:43 +0000

I go through stages too. Right now I’ve been concentrating on blog design and watching statistics/metrics.

By: untreatable

untreatable — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:45:22 +0000

I seem to spend too much time on watching statistics and trying to figure out ways to get my blog out there when I should be focused on the actual writing. Need to figure out my blogging priorities

By: Justin Levy

Justin Levy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:21:16 +0000

I spend most of my time writing and reading other blogs in my areas of focus. After that I probably spend the most time interacting on social networks. I like testing new tools on my blogs to see which ones my readers tend to use more. For instance, using just icons for social networks versus the FriendFeed widget, etc.

-Justin

By: eve

eve — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:25:23 +0000

I have been spending the last few weeks on design and cleanup, Starting from the very first post I am going through and deleting, optimizing, etc. After 4 years of blogging it needed to be done- and boy and I finding some BAD posts from the beginning! Lots of purging over here. I hope to get my rank back after deleting all paid posts/adding no-follow to the ones I cant delete yet. ((crossing fingers!))

By: suneer

suneer — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:30:10 +0000

I do spend time on writing articles, but I do also spend lot of my time on analyzing the traffic. I find it interesting from where users are coming and where they are going.
I also spend some time to find cool plugins to engage my users.

By: gerd

gerd — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:37:53 +0000

I always tes and change my blog theme and add useful plugin…every month

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:41:53 +0000

I think I’m the 100th comment! For me, the most time consuming thing is reading other blogs. I don’t comment often enough, but I should; same thing with guest posting. Once a month or so I try to take all of my starred posts (I use Google Reader) and incorporate them into “around the bloggosphere” and “long Island Legal News” posts, which take much more time to write than you would think by reading them.

By: Timon weller

Timon weller — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:05:40 +0000

Mostly writing and publishing posts or commenting on other peoples blogs.. :)

By: D. A. Shaver

D. A. Shaver — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:17:49 +0000

I think it is writing articles by a long shot. I spend a lot of time researching them, wording, rewriting them and correcting them. It is so hard to get the mistakes out. I read and reread and I seem to find mistakes every time. Mostly words left out. Even after I post I read on the web site and keep finding mistakes. There are probably still mistakes here but I can find any more.

By: Joel Drapper

Joel Drapper — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:13:53 +0000

Writing mostly. I’m finding it really hard right now.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:31:19 +0000

I spend a good amount of time writing. Since I’m fairly new as well I spend a good amount of time researching tools and plug ins looking for all the best products to support the blog. By far though, I spend most time writing.

If I don’t have compelling content I’m just wasting peoples time. So I really work hard on honing my ability to write good copy.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:51:05 +0000

Fixing bloody Error 500 messages

By: Dean Holland

Dean Holland — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:26:48 +0000

Hey Darren

This is a good topic actually and is something I have been reviewing my own time for lately…

As my blog is only a few months old I find most of my time is spent doing social media marketing, interacting in forums and on other blogs.

The last few weeks though I was dedicated to my blog redesign which apart from a few last tweaks is done.

I think it all depends on what you need to acheive at a certain time, I dont feel it is neccessary to always be focused on design.. Nor do I feel it should just be about doing just 1 of the above task you mention.

I think you need to set a plan, stick to it and work it

Thanks

Dean

By: Rodrigo Oshiro

Rodrigo Oshiro — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:29:57 +0000

I spent a lot of time integrating my blog with other services like Tweeter, Google Reader, Picasa and YouTube… It was worth though… Now I can mirror into my blogger contents that i can easily publish in other services. For example, if I create a YouTube playlist it is automatically mirrored to by blog.

I am very lazy to publish my own posts… :(. but I have fun creating the layout and adding stuff like this integration that I commented here.

By: seth

seth — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:38:41 +0000

I spend lots of time right now publishing posts. I am trying to build my content and get out as many quality posts as possible. After that I spend time focusing on reading up on blogging tips and then trying to implement them right away into my blog, or i right them down on my blogging to-do list. As things pick up for me I hope to be working on the other stuff as well. Thanks for the post!!!

By: Marijuana Reviews

Marijuana Reviews — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:44:09 +0000

I started my blog, MarijuanaReviews.com at the end of Nov, 2008. To give you an idea of the size, I get about 1000 hits/day right now and appx. 7-7500 page views. (Yesterday I had 2000 hits due to a great post).

I had no clue what to expect but like I heard someone say on this blog, “blogging will take up as much time as you let it.”

I write 3-5 posts daily. After that I spend most of my day doing just about everything you listed. Besides writing reviews, the next 2 biggest time consumers are moderating comments and social networking.

Checking stats is a whole other animal as I am a stats JUNKY!

Hope this helps.

–Chubbs