A typical day in blogging
Are you a very organized person? Do you think a blogger should be organized? Or should he be an impulsive one?
I was wondering how a typical day in blogging would look like for you? Would it be the same as other bloggers or would it be all over the place? Let’s take a deeper look.
This is how a typical day in blogging look like for me.
START
Morning 6.30 am - Email Check
7.00-7.30 am - Publishing article/Blogging
8.00 am - Rush to office
9.00 am - Email checks
9.15 am - Check Google Reader subscriptions
9.30 am - Commenting spree on interesting articles/ Emails
10.00 am - Site statistics check, comment moderation
10.30 am - 5.00 pm Daily Job (I’m inhouse SEO to a stock photo agency)
Quick note - My daily job is again more SEO work, reports, stats check, link building, page corrections, competition analysis, PPC management, Emails etc. So the 9-5 framework isn’t really enough. Not much SEO on DailySEOblog during this time, but yes I’ll handle my emails too.
5.00-6.30 pm - Time with family.
6.30pm - 7.30pm - Family commitments.
7.30pm - Email checks.
8.00 pm - RSS feed subscriptions
9.00 pm - Commenting/ Emails
10.00 pm - Article submission/Blogging
11.00 pm - Blogging
12.00 am - More blogging
12.30 am - Even more blogging
1.00 am - Back to bed
Another quick note - Through out the day, I keep a small quick notes thing and a pen with me, to note down blogging ideas whenever they come to me.But my wife thinks that it’s not cool at all, cos many a times, she’s spotted me running out of the shower grabbing the quick notes. Psst..I even keep it under my pillow while sleeping. She’s unaware of it. 
So how does a typical day in blogging look like for you?
Guillermo | November 29th, 2007 at 5:11 pm #
I’d swear I’ve read this same post in SEOMoz or something like that… Was it you? OMG! Too many subscriptions!
Jake | November 29th, 2007 at 6:50 pm #
Earlier this was posted but apparently got removed with a couple of errors. Glad you fixed it… I was ready to comment.
Mani Karthik (Post Author) | November 29th, 2007 at 9:20 pm #
@Guillermo, oops that wasn’t me probably Rand.
@Jake, You have an eye for details my friend. Great!
Silki Garg | November 30th, 2007 at 1:00 am #
Hi Mani,
I liked that under the pillow stuff.
Are all wives, including mine, like that. Why can’t they understand blogging mania.
Daniel Primed | November 30th, 2007 at 10:01 am #
Hey Mani, great post. I just thought that I’d ask how difficult you find it to keep up with your schedule?
You see, I have been tyring to plan out my holiday schedule lately and I would like to do somthing similar to your own but I figured that it might be too exhausting or difficult to keep up. Thanks dude
Mani Karthik (Post Author) | November 30th, 2007 at 9:52 pm #
Hi Daniel,
Well honestly it’s not very difficult if you enjoy whatever you’re doing. I try to stick to my schedule and whenever there’s a deviation, I stretch myself to the night. But once I’m on the task, I pretty much enjoy it. So it doesn’t get pain at all.
I think two things count here.
- Do you enjoy what you are doing(I know you do.)
- Can you push the limits and go that extra mile?
Problem solved.
Cheers!
Mani
Daniel Primed | December 1st, 2007 at 3:13 am #
Cheers Mani, I spent today following a schedule that I wrote up a few days ago and what I realized were those two points that you mentioned. Throughout the working University I’ve managed to keep a tight schedule but I think now that I’m on holidays its the time to kick it into over drive. Thanks for the feed back dude.
Shankar Ganesh | December 2nd, 2007 at 8:31 am #
Hehe you people are lucky to have net connections at your workplace.
For me it’s the other way round. 9 AM to 4 pm just listening to classes at school, and thinking of stuff to write about during lunch hours
And then, at around 5 PM it’s email check and RSS feeds, and then 7 PM write some blah blah, then do my homework and go to bed
LOL!