Hi Barbara. I probably blog about 6 hours per day. Today was more! I’m transferring over to a hosted site and trying to figure out why the “5-minute” install took 2 hours! Now I’m trying to figure out how to transfer Loving Pulse over and choose the new theme/design.

I might have questions over the weekend, after I do some digging through some certain archives.

Have a great weekend.

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Hi Barbara,
during the week I work from 8 till 4.30pm. During this time I sometimes look at my stats, read one or the other blog, maybe comment. But that’s only when work is slow. My real blogging time is one or two hours after work. At the weekend or when I have got a day off, it’s one and a half hour in the morning and two hours in the late afternoon. I am trying to keep that up regularly, writing about two posts per week.

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I have spent day and night for since the beginning of the month doing my plugin and commenting like crazy to get it working on as many blogs as possible and I am still itching to get some ‘proper’ blogging done. lol

FYI: I see you’re running version 2.1.5 of commentluv and you’re on WP 2.5.1 which is why the badge isn’t showing below the form. I updated the code of 2.1.5 and uploaded it to the codex so it would fix this for WP2.5.1 but I didn’t increase the version number so it looks like you got the first version of 2.1.5 commentluv

if you download it again from the codex and upload it, it will be able to show the badge properly

(you can set it to display the comment text area if you want too, just put “comment” (no quotes) in the ‘append badge to’ box and put a <br/> in the ‘prepend html’ box in the plugins settings page)

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Blogging has become a powerful experience for me. And one I enjoy very much (I qualified as a blogaholic yesterday…). So, while I spend many hours on this new-found activity, it is one that I do happily.

So, it varies a bit day to day, but I’m going to guess maybe 3-4 hours a day. Sometimes more, maybe 5 - 6 hours.

Maybe this explains all the coffee I drink now…

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I cannot seem to get the new CommentLuv working. I’m not sure if it’s compatable w/ my version of WordPress or if I just need to try a few more times. Have a great weekend!

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I’d guess about 2 to 4 hours a day on blogging activities.

I don’t count my photography, of course, though I do take some of the pictures with blogging in mind.

Of course, I do count the writing time — even of those posts where I am writing outside of my old comfort zone, which I write, read, edit and tweak until it feels… just right.

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Hi Barbara,
This comment is about you! Thanks for everything you do. I really appreciate your presence and supportive spirit.

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Hi Barbara,

I’m really amazed and impressed to hear how long people spend working on their blogs!

Setting up my blog took a lot of work, I spent 3-4 hours per day looking for wordpress themes, searching for and installing plug-ins, editing bits of code and getting it wrong.

I’ve taken a step back from my blog over the last couple of months, both in terms of posts and maintenence - I’m letting it run itself.

Writing a post and finding the pictures for it takes 2-3 hours. My most recent post took a bit longer because it required a lot of fiddly editing to get it to look right.

I also spend about 10-20 minutes per day reading other blogs, sometimes longer on busy days.

David

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Since I have decided to post twice weekly my time averages about 2-3 daily hours blogging. Like “Motivate” I consider blogging an investment in my future as well as sound marketing and relationship building. But If I blogged any more hors in the day I wouldn’t have time to coach or simply be me. I think that would defeat the purpose.

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Hi Davina - With regard to your questions, I would say it depends on how comfortable you feel with “building the website” (I’m not sure I understand what you mean by this). What I did was have a few themes in my “theme folder” and then checked to see how they looked with my information.

I’m not sure if it matters what you transfer first as you’ll need both of them anyway. Let me know if you have more questions. We’ll keep the questions here (instead of via email) as others may have the same issue.

Hi Ulla - It sounds like you have your blogging time under control. For me, keeping my blogging time down is hard to do.

Hi Ajith - Nope! We all know what can be entailed with blogging. By the time we get it all done (or half way done), another day is upon us.

Hi Miguel - **smiles**, I don’t post on weekends, but do go on the computer to check for comments, work behind the scenes, and visit those in my reader. You’re right though, it is hard to “draw the line”.

Hi Lance - I totally agree, blogging is a powerful experience. It’s such a fun hobby, it’s hard NOT to blog. Just make sure the coffee’s on.

Hi Eric - Blogging can be an investment in the future. Like you, I would like to do it “full-time”. I agree, it’s our mindset that will determine whether that will happen or not.

Re: CommentLuv. I see Stacey asked the same question. I looked at my settings and here’s what I have: (ignore the quotation marks)

1) Updated to version 2.1.5
2) Under options it reads: “[name]´s last blog post..[lastpost]”
Text displayed…”choose a different post to show”
Choose to have CommentLuv on by default - “true”
3) Styling: “border:1px solid; display:block; padding:4px;”
4) Comment Form Identification: In all of the drop downs I have “name”
5) Display Badge - I left this as it was. Nothing is checked although I did hard code a badge into my sidebar
In the first “box” it reads “CommentLuv Enabled”
6) I entered my member ID and checked the box for “click tracking”

Hope this helps. Let me know if it doesn’t.

BTW : I cannot “see” CommentLuv when I look at my blog.

Hi Stacey - See my reply to Eric

Hi Chase - I’m guessing you’re enjoying having more time to access the internet now that you’re back at school again. During the summer I remember you went to the library and were down to one hour.

Hi Mike - I hear you when you speak of wanting posts “just right”. That also takes me a long time as I keep changing words, deleting words, adding words, etc… Editing can be time consuming, hey?

Hi Scott - You’re right. We often spend MORE time, and then we learn how to cut back as we become more efficient.

Hi Betsy - You’re most welcome. Thank you for your kind words.

Hi Natural - It does help if we’re not posting every day. Like you said, that gives us time for other activities.

Hi David - I hear you on the part about finding pictures for blog posts. Sometimes I can spend up to an hour on Flickr and still not be happy with what I found.

Hi Linda - That had to have been tough on you when hurricane Ike knocked out your power, as I know you enjoy your blogging activities.

Hi Tom - I like how you tie your coaching and blogging together. It’s also a great way for your potential clients to get to know you better. And yes, we do need to take time off (from blogging) to live our lives.

Hi Paunchiness - Welcome to the BWAB community. LOL, I’m guessing you’re not the only one who blogs while working for someone else. It’s a hobby that’s hard to stay away from.

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My usual blogging hours is 10 hour plus on weekdays. I usually avoid switching on my computer (except for movies or some website tweaks) on weekends since once it starts, it takes over the entire weekend.

This month because of health issues I averaged 4-5 hours a week and was quite refreshing. I could come up with post ideas easily, write easily, found time to pursue reading, meeting friends etc.

Am now getting better day by day, so I guess from October, I should be all geared up to take blogging full time.

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I’ve been thinking about making the transition to full time blogger!!!
lol
let’s see… about 4 hours a day…
just not all of them blogging…

heheheh

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I’m trying to spend less time online in general, but I probably spend 3-4 hours minimum between my two blogs. I’m trying to get on a regular posting schedule for both, but it’s often the reading and commenting elsewhere that really burns up the time.

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How many hours a day (average) do you spend on blogging activities?

Too many and not enough all at the same time. Many hours a day, though not as many hours lately.

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@ Davina - Like Barbara mentioned, it really depends on how comfortable and experienced you are at coding and designing your own website. Unless you’re a developer, it would be much easier to find an already designed WordPress theme you like and go from there.

If you’re not sure how to customize it you might want to pay a company to do that for you.

As for which you should do/get first: it doesn’t really matter. The only thing you might want to consider is SEO. For example, if you wait 30 days until a theme is designed for you before you put up any content, that’s 30 days you’ll of missed out on Google getting to know your site.

However, if you get your content on there asap the sooner search engines will find and index your site.

@ Barbara - My blogging varies depending on what tasks I have to complete for a day. I try to spend about 1 to 2 hours about 4 times a week visiting and commenting on other blogs and forums. I probably spend about another 3 to 4 hours 3 days a week writing posts.

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Hi Barbara,

My hours vary every day, but on average . . . . 4-6 hours, and yes even on weekends sometimes. Not this one — lots of social activities planned! Hope you enjoy your weekend as well.

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Hi Barbara,

My blogging hours depend on how much sleep I am willing to give up on a particular night … I probably average 5 hours/day. It goes up or down on my priority list depending on what else I have going on … I try to put some hours into other important things before I let myself get sucked into the blog world. I have to say it is getting extremely addicting!

With regards to blogging questions … when I started my blog, I decided to blog about balance in life and career - but now I wonder if the career portion should be another blog altogether … What do you think? How do I make that decision?

Thanks!
maya

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Barbara, thank you for addressing my question. I’m pretty comfortable building the website if I have a template to work with. I just need to find the right template and I’m not used to the new software.

If anyone is looking for such a template (not for blogs though), I highly recommend citymaker.com. I’m no teckkie and I was able to build my own business website with their software.

@ John, thanks for your comment as well. That bit about SEO was not something I had considered.

Davina´s last blog post..Free Spirit My Ass!

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Thanks Barbara!

Yes, I’d much prefer not to have to manage two blogs. I like your answer
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Hi Barbara,

Blogging is taking around four hours a day, but I have spent up 6 to eight hours while I was setting up.

I struggle to find four hours most days at the moment and it’s come at the cost of sleep. Totally worth it though. Totally.

Before I started blogging on my own site I spent the whole time visiting and having fun on a wide variety of blogs. I’m a bit sad that I can’t do that so much now.

Barbara, I’m afraid I don’t know the rules for ‘Open Mike’ so I’m going to hold off asking a question for the moment.

This is a great community you have here, and I really love the way everyone interacts with each other. Thanks.

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Barbara - I spend probably 10-15 hours per week on blogging related activities, whether it’s reading, posting, managing, or dropping my Entrecards.

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WOW Teach! 8 hrs a day as part-time blogger….No wonder your blog is awesome…I average about 1-2 hrs a day. And if I really have time, I push it to 3 hrs…I wish I ave more time though because I really want to be in the same league as you and your regular readers.

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Hi Barbara - I don’t keep track - but I guess it’s a lot now that I’m planning to use my blog to promote the new business I’m planning. Probably too many.

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Hi Catherine - Combining a blog with a business would add a lot of hours to your blogging time. I agree, it could be hard to track.

Hi J.D. - It sounds like you have your blogging time well scheduled. But, like you said, your day job is your highest priority, plus I know you’re also working a your book. Sounds like a full schedule.

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Barbara, thank you for explaining the rules to me. I thought you might have had a ’search before asking’ kind of a rule.

I’ll wait until the next open mike.
Dave

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