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Here is a little time management tip that will help bloggers continue their successful blogging ventures. This time management tip for bloggers is a short guide that will give you a little structure with how you distribute your time out performing various blogging tasks.
I doesn’t matter how much time you spend. Invest as much time into your blog as you feel comfortable with. Here is a percentage of time break down I would recommend for the following tasks.
- Commenting: I suggest investing 50% of your blogging time commenting and contributing on other blog sites.
- Publishing: I suggest investing 25% of your blogging time publishing articles to your own blog site.
- Analysis: I suggest investing 10% of your blogging time analysing your traffic statistics. Know which pages are bringing in the most traffic and why. Review what kind of interests span on these pages for optimized content and marketing.
- Editing: I suggest investing 10% of your blogging time reviewing your previous work by improving, editing, or adding additional content to your previously written articles. Double check spelling and grammar.
- Communication: I suggest investing 5% of your blogging time checking and writing emails. This might sound like a slim percentage, but not really. People tend to check email multiple times throughout the day. I would reduce that amount to about three times per day. Sending email and replying to emails doesn’t take that long at all… but when you do it many times in a day, it can start to take up a chunk of your time. People eat three meals a day (or should), I would suggest checking email three times a day as well.
If you have anything you would like to add, please feel free to do so. Comments are open for your thoughts and suggestions!
- Garry
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Date/Time: 1-11-2007 10:15:08 Comment #108
Its generally not good to just rewrite the same content everyone else is writing *unless* you’re adding your own spin to it, but it is good to keep a pulse on the blogosphere and recognize great posts others make (there are a variety of ways to do this, whether its daily links, feature posts, adding a static page to highlight these, etc.)
I also believe if you aren’t doing this professionally, or full time, you should keep a timer handy and try to be consistent daily on the amount of time you spend, but also don’t go over. This helps avoid it becoming a chore and/or overextending yourself.
Good tips!
Date/Time: 1-11-2007 17:21:37 Comment #109
Feeds, true that… How could I forget the feeds… I guess the reason why is because I subscribe to every one’s feedburner email notification service.
For bloggers out there that don’t provide it, I would recommend adding it…
The email notification service sends you ONE email per day with a summary of articles written by that particular author. Also, if the author didn’t write any posts that day, you get no email.
I understand that we are all individuals and we all go about things differently to achieve the same results… that’s cool! I am somewhat “Old School” and love reading email. I can manage and stay organized better using email versus RSS readers. I will always have email… and having to check email and RSS is twice the work. Feedburner is great and I really appreciate all the blog sites that use it. It makes my life easier. All I want to do is stay up to date with my favorite blogs (Kyle’s included) and for me, getting that daily email is great!
Anyway… with all that said. I guess I neglected to cover that because subconsciously, I consider reading feeds as reading email… so I already accounted for that in my percentage breakdown…
As a revision, I would then say of the 50% time for commenting, breaking that down would be 40% writing on other sites and 10% reading the content you are commenting on…
The funny part is I wrote this article this morning on the can…. took me less than five minutes and this writing this comment took me about 15! lol!!!
Blogging is something that definitely can absorb your time like a sponge. I like the idea of having a timer! That is pretty cool!