| Libertine |
12-28-2009 07:03 AM |
I'll give some actual advice.
Create content.
Add content to your sites.
Promote your sites.
Analyze data to find out the best way to promote sponsors.
Analyze data to find out the best sponsors.
Analyze data to find out the best content.
Analyze data to find out the most effective types of promoting your sites.
Analyze data to find out the most effective sites.
Build more sites, using the data you've gathered.
etc.
Let's say you run a high quality, high traffic blog about online marketing. Here's what your day might look like:
08:00-09:30: get up, check your stats, take a shower, have breakfast, drink coffee, read a paper, check your email, delete/approve blog comments. Write down any ideas you get for possible topics for posts.
09:30-10:30: read relevant news sources and blogs, looking for stuff to discuss/mention in your posts of that day.
10:30-12:00: write your first post for the day.
12:00-12:30: have lunch.
12:30-13:00: revise first post, publish it.
13:00-13:30: promote the post on twitter, facebook, digg, reddit, related blogs, related message boards, etc.
13:30-14:30: promote your blog by posting comments on blogs and message boards.
14:40-16:30: write an article, press release or guest post on another blog as promotion for your blog.
16:30-17:00: have a little coffee break and read through related blogs and news sources again.
17:30-19:00: write your second post for the day.
19:00-20:00: groceries, dinner.
20:00-21:00: revise second post, publish it, promote it.
21:00-22:00: site/promotion method/sponsor analysis. Change small stuff if needed.
22:00-23:00: evening break. Take a long walk or a short workout.
23:00-00:30: work on the ebook you plan to sell from your blog.
00:30-01:30: play around with the new site you're working on.
01:30-08:00: sleep.
That leaves you with six and a half hours of sleep. During the day, you'll have written two high quality blog posts for yourself as well as a high quality promotional article or blog post. You'll also have done a decent amount of promotion, and spent some time working on optimization and monetization.
What I didn't mention is that in the mean time, you will also have updated a few other sites. While looking for interesting stuff to write about, you will have posted all funny videos and pictures you encountered to another blog, and you'll have tweeted a few of them as well. Interesting sites you encountered will have been added to your own directory on the same subject. Interesting blog posts and news articles will have been mentioned on your main blog or a separate one for that specific purpose. The recipe for your dinner will have gone to your food blog. The main news you read in the morning will have been quickly reviewed on your opinion blog. Etc.
And, of course, in between you'll have answered emails, IMs and phone calls.
If you focus on adult and do blogs, you'll spend more time writing small posts across a larger network of blogs/splogs, while also adding a tube or two and maybe an old tgp to the mix. Perhaps also a PPC campaign or two. And you'll spend more time managing links, comparing sponsors and managing traffic/link exchanges. Perhaps a bit more time creating new, automated sites as well.
But anyway, when working online there is always more work you could do, and the more you work the better your results will be - especially if you work on automating stuff so your time has a bigger payoff.
If you find yourself not knowing what to spend more time on, you're doing something wrong.
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