I said I was going to blog for 6 months straight but last night after a streak of 11 days I stopped.
I was at home, and after I moved my things into my new flat, I just passed out. I’ve been plain tired with the start-up, planning for the CSS meet up, an early and long drive from SF to LA, and a touch of jet lag from returning back from NYC.
But even though the project is a fail, here is what I learned:
- I learned that you can blog from your smartphone using the WordPress App. This really helped while I was in Brooklyn and didn’t have my laptop.
- Weekends really suck for a tech blog. My traffic just dropped.
- Keyword focused-posts and quality posts grow traffic. There is no way around this.
- A really good blog post can take up 4 hours of your day.
2 replies on “4 Things I learned from blogging 11 days straight”
Well, thanks for inspiring me to take on the 6-month blogging challenge! I’ve definitely found it challenging to blog everyday (avoiding mediocrity)…it’s hard to stop editing the darn post, when I find little errors every time I go back and read it…so I’ve just had to stop myself from constantly revisiting published posts.
For 11 days of blogging, you’ve definitely provided quality content! It’s helped me (e.g., using more keyword-focused posts).
🙂
I did about 300 days straight on one blog from June 2009 to April 2010, more or less. Some days 2 articles, once or twice, missed a day. However, I also posted articles on a couple of other blogs at that time as well. So it comes out to just slightly more than once a day.
At the moment, I’m doing blogging/WordPress work for only 1 hour per day, which now turns out to be more than enough time to crank out 300-500 words on something useful, complete with relevant SEO goodness. Practice. Lots of practice! The key is double dipping, writing up the blog post while doing the work.