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How long does it take you to write a post?
Posted by webdiggin • 3/16/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, copy, research, writing posts
Just started blogging and I find I'm getting sucked into it. Wow. I'll be doing some research on one idea, and then I'll hit some other blogs, and before you know it, what started with one post, has blossomed into 4 or 5 different potential posts...
Gotta focus, and I know that, but, how much time does it take for you to write a post? What's your secret?
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It depends on what you blog about, I just blog about my opinion ... so that doesn't take much research lol. I just did a post about my trip to the doctors office ... that took less than 20 minutes to write. -
Anywhere between 5 minutes and 2 hours. -
Mine can take anywhere from 20 minutes (for opinion) to 4 hours or more (for researched work). It depends on the subject matter, how much research I have to do, How much html formatting I have to do, etc etc....
I should add, that one post I broke into two, and it took me weeks to write it. -
I'm like Anok. It depends on how much research is needed. My "Road to the 2008 Kentucky Derby" rankings are a labor of love. I just finished, mind you, and it took me over 4 hours to update. I'm freakin' exhausted. Heading out for a smoke.
Should I toss a link in since it applies to the conversation? Oh what the hey, it took 4 hours, man!!!
theaspiringhorseplayer.wordpress.com/road-to-the-2008-kentucky-derby/-
I'll have a virtual smoke with you
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Wow. That's a lot of work - it's quite lengthy. So when you do a post about the road to the 2008 Kentucky Derby, is it better to keep content all in one long post, or to break in up into smaller posts. I mean, it could have easily been a separate post for each contest - but I guess there's SEO benefit to having it all in one post? (Is that why those spammy looking advertisement sites that I get when I click on Google Ads have all the "buy-now-limited-time-offer" stuff in one long page?
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I do seperate posts about each race both before and after, but the post above is a consolidated rankings as of right now (my opinion). In that sense it's best to keep them together so that folks have all information in one spot. It actually mirrors a page I keep as well, but I've found that folks like the posts denoting when a weekly update to the rankings have been made.
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Excellent in depth analysis. Pity you reached the wrong conclusion.
War Pass.. for my money...which I guess makes me a sucker.
WTF do I know? I know very little about the horse and will defer to your immense knowledge.
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Took me about five minutes to write my latest post, but it isnt very good and I'm going to edit it when I get to my hotel in a few hours.
Normally its about 5-20 minutes finding/creating an image and about 5-30 minutes writing.-
So do you publish it, and then go back and edit it, or do you just save it as a draft and only release it when it's "perfect"?
Sometimes I go back and edit previous posts... is that resending it out into the world over and over again to annoy readers, or since it's a RSS feed anyways, it just updates in their feed reader as a previous post, so it's not really noticable?
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It depends on the length of the post and the subject matter. Some only take a few minutes; others might take up to 15 or 20. Every once in a while one will take a little longer if I have to find a lot of links or look up direct quotes. -
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30 minutes. i have to reread, grammar restructure, open dictionary and ask friend
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44 Years for some of them.
Others merely days -
It depends for me as well,
For my cooking blog a "post" can take up to 3 days to complete when you factor in making the dish, getting/editing photos, writing up the recipe and then adding a bit of commentary.
for a "normal" post of around 500-800 words on one of my blogs that does not involve any research I probably spend 10 to 30 minutes, barring distractions (Frequent with a 19 month old!) -
If you post only a photo,it'll be in no time. -
I get up at 5:30 or 6 in the morning and write first thing before my day starts. I write about what is happening in the art studio and my painting life, and post pictures that are either reference photos or paintings in progress, so it doesn't take me long. I would say twenty minutes or a little more after I read the news online. -
6 to 8 hours for a set of photoshop brush freebies post -
Anywhere from 1/2 hour all the way to about four hours, if I'm working to really hone the language on it.
Often I'll write something and then whittle it down afterwards, to fine-tune it. -
If you review a book, first you have to read it, then you have to take notes, then you have to write the post 3-8 days. -
Depends. Some posts require extensive research. Some of my posts require my lawyer's input before they get published just cause of the nature of the subject matter discussed.-
That's interesting. I skimmed through some of your blogs... what kind of issues do you get your lawyer's input about before you publish? The DUI blog? If your lawyer's on the clock - how do you recover the cost in the blog? Are your blogs successful enough that you're generating revenue to cover the cost of a lawyer? wow.
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I prefer short blogposts . I do not like lengthy posts . One blogpost one idea.
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As a general rule, do people prefer to read short posts or long posts?
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It all depends on the niche/topics... believe it or not, a lot of people like the long in-depth posts while others like just a few paragraphs. But if there's a helpful post (ex. how to create a WP theme) then I'm sure people wouldn't care how long it is...
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@webdiggin . What would you prefer if you are visiting blogs ?
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I prefer sub headings. clear white space. bullets. catchy titles.
That way I can just skim the post and if something grabs my eye, boom.
It's a good question, and it's one I need to keep in mind when I blog run-on sentences. Your right. I tend to get tired during the long posts, but I tend to produce them too. Hmm. Food for thought
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22 minutes 37 seconds... lol just playing, it all depends on what type of post I write for the day. If it requires research or surveying, then it might take a little longer. Plus, I always take my time because I try to put quality over quantity all the time...
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It all depends on what kind of post I'm going for, I've written some in under five minutes and some have/are taking months.
On average though at least a half hour to hour between inspiration, writing, and editing. -
So... Maybe a better question, is how long do you spend revising your post before you publish? Do you ever go back and edit a publish post when you notice a mistake?
Copyblogger had an awesome post about things to do to tighten up your post (www.copyblogger.com/10-blogging-questions/)... Sigh. I know it's quality or quantity, but sometimes with life getting in the way, it feels like there's never enough time to actually blog.-
You could add another 30 minutes to an hour to my aforementioned post time for revising, proof reading etc before publishing. And even then I don't catch all my mistakes.
There is a reason I've slowed down on the amount I post, it's exhausting!
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I should say about an hour or two, three. I'm of course not writing the normal type of blog posts, I write stories off around 800 to 2000 words, so that takes a while. I also need an entire week to get inspired enough and stuff. -
Has anyone created a targeted niche mini-site with 5 or 6 pages in it before? How long does it take you to set up the site?
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it took me three days to invent a title for one of my latest posts and bear in mind I do photoblogging with no more than a dozen of words -
I'm thinking if I rode public transportation to blog school, I would be on the short bus. It usually takes me several hours, often spread over two days, by the time I revise and actually have it posted. But sadly, it takes me more time editing/cutting out length than the writing itself. I get so passionate about some of the topics I discuss, that I have a very hard time keeping my posts super short...I try not to go over 1,500 - 1,800 words.
Maybe I'll eventually hone my skill and get to ride the "normal" bus with the rest of you kids!-
How's that six word thingamabob coming along? More importantly, when are you coming for a visit?
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15 minutes. it takes me 2 days to edit it. -
Ok. How long does it take you to do a sponsored post?
We've tended to go with PayPerPost because some of those opportunities are 50 words long. (Smorty, I think, is 250 words?)
I'm kinda amazed at what I can get away with: piss off is a good example.
webdiggin.com/162/piss-off-at-the-2008-american-urological-association-annu...
Sometimes we'll even blog about their campaign on PayPerPost and whether it'll really drive traffic to their site (i.e. safariland holsters).
webdiggin.com/204/la-police-gear/
Then again, we just use the sponsored post cash to pay our readers $25, so I guess that's why they put up with it.
So, for those of you who do sponsored posts - how long does it take you to write one up, and do you find it an effective way to make money on your site? -
I don't sweat on sponsored posts coz I don't get a lot, lols! it's the easiest part, I guess:)
Overall, there are delicate issues that I need to be careful about and some other posts that just flow right away coz they are but an expression of my emotions, char! -
I don't do sponsored posts. It can take me anywhere from 10 minutes to write and edit a pet peeve rant to four hours to stop following a breadcrumb trail of related topics and actually pick somthing about which to write. Sometimes I get so interested in my research that I forget why I started reading in the first place. -
It varies so much, because mine is a photoblog it can take time for me to take the right image - then time to play with it in Photoshop (if I do at all)... then it can sit in my ready to post folder for another month before it finally goes live... -
Writing the post itself takes 1-2 max. Revising approximately 30 minutes. But I read a lot of diet and health books for my blog, so that takes up a lot of my free time, approximately 4-5 hours a week. I basically switch my love for sci-fiction novels for diet and health books.
My biggest problem is that I have trigger happy post fingers. I tend to post before I have enough time to think about a good title. So most of the time, I am only mildly happy with my titles. But since I published it on my blog already, I just leave it.
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