Poll: How Many Hours Per Week Do You Work on Your Blog?

46 Responses to “Poll: How Many Hours Per Week Do You Work on Your Blog?”

• Blake @ Props Blogon October 13, 2009 1:05 pm

  @John Moss – I can relate. I’m fairly tech savvy though, so I can normally work my way through the problems. I figure if I take the time to learn the code behind the scenes, I’ll be able to customize my site even more later. It should also speed up the process if I start another blogging venture later.

  If you’re on the problogger forums, don’t be afraid to ask questions. They claim it is there to help people. I can’t imagine the moderators putting up with people giving you a hard time. If anything I’m sure there will be several people happy to come to the rescue.

• Aqeel Syedon October 13, 2009 12:53 pm

  Blogging is my full time job, had to work on my personal as well as client blogs so I work 80 hours +/- a week on blogs writing content, managing hosting, different aspect of WordPress and off-course promoting these blogs.

• Casey @ wptemplates.neton October 13, 2009 12:41 pm

  I probably spend more than 8 hours/day online. I spend most of time on template coding and design. This would probably go on for another 3 months. Hopefully I would be able to reach my target on time.

• K. Praslowiczon October 13, 2009 12:23 pm

  Each larger weekend post on my blog takes me roughly two pots of French Press.

• Heshamon October 13, 2009 11:12 am

  I will have to say I work over 40 hours per week on my blogs, I believe that time is one good challenge for me as I own more than one blog! and the time is not only for posting but it’s to network and add comments on other blogs as well which I consider a good support for my blogs and I can add it to my blog working hours!

• Karen, author of “My Funny Dad, Harry”on October 13, 2009 11:08 am

  I have three blogs and am currently on short-term disability from work so I am above 40 hours a week right now, but when I am working, it’s more like 30 hours a week.

• Boerne Searchon October 13, 2009 9:54 am

  Good, I’m not at the bottom of the list. Thou I could spend more time on it. 😉

  Kane

• Benon October 13, 2009 9:32 am

  I average about an 1 hour a day working on my blog. Used to spend 20 to 30 hours a week until I fiqured that there is more important things in life than blogging. Life is good.

• elmoton October 13, 2009 6:22 am

  I am still spending lots of time actually blogging everyday, almost 5-7 hours! That is because my blog is still new and I am setting up 2 new blogs.

  But hopefully before the year ends, I could cut down my blogging time to maybe 2-3 hours a day.

• John Samuelon October 13, 2009 5:41 am

  It seems that a significant number of people spend 5-10 hours. Even I belong to the same category

• Dana@Online Knowledgeon October 13, 2009 5:26 am

  I work over 40 hours per week because my blog still new one. It may reduce after my blog in stable state.

  • Kathleenon April 05, 2011 2:22 pm

    “I work over 40 hours per week because my blog still new one. It may reduce after my blog in stable state.”

    Me too. Actually I work 48 hours per week to be precise. 🙂

• Shveticon October 13, 2009 3:17 am

  Hah! I spent about 3-4 hours per day I think. Most of this time I try to write articles, it takes many time to think what really i want to tell in my posts)))

• Zeeshanon October 13, 2009 3:13 am

  most of time is invested in finding what good for my blog.it like hit and trial.although i read other blogs i find same things dont work for me

• John B. Mosson October 13, 2009 2:18 am

  I agree with Blake; it seems a lot of time is invested ‘up front’ to get the blog set up. But I also find myself spinning wheels, since I have nobody to discuss design issues with, nobody I know who I can ask questions of related to what I’m trying to do…

  I tried joining a few forums, thinking that I might find help there, but instead I feel intimidated because I either don’t know the right questions to ask, don’t have the buzzwords down, or have trouble interpreting the answers because of a general unfamiliarity with the plugin options, the technical setup solutions (do I need to apply this answer? does this solution apply to me?), or a combination of all of the above.

  I do spend a lot of time reading documentation, experimenting, attempting to polish what I have created. A lot of my time is simply trial and error as I work to develop my content.

  Although I said I spend 20-40 hours a week (I do), close to 25 of these hours is spent in trying to get the blog’s appearance where I’d like it to be, and only 10-15 hours on content. I sure would like to switch those stats around, and get to a point where 95% of my time is spent on content.

  In the meantime, I read your tips (thank you for that) and try to apply what I’m learning.

• Chesteron October 13, 2009 1:26 am

  24/7. Hehe. That’s for sure. I’m hooked. This is my way of living so I put my full time and effort on it.

• Lee Ka Hoongon October 13, 2009 12:31 am

  I used to spend 10-20hours a week on my blog, or 1-2 hours daily. I’m working part time for my blog, so that’s the time I can spend on my blog, I hope I can have more time for it, perhaps in future since I’m working full time (day job) and studying part time (construction field which relates to my day job).

  Thanks,
  Lee

• Davidon October 12, 2009 11:53 pm

  I do 2-3 hours per day, but most of that is reading. We’re a news blog, so it takes a lot of reading and sorting before I can settle on the 2-3 short posts I will make each day.

• Youngon October 12, 2009 10:26 pm

  I have nothing to do except blogging.

• Bob Bessetteon October 12, 2009 10:12 pm

  I think it averages about 5 hours + per week because I also have a full-time job and typically post once a week. When I post I want it to add value to my readers. My name is associated with each of my posts so I try my best over the week to develop a decent, well-thought-out post and put it all together over the weekend and publish. I’m really enjoying the process.

  Best,
  Bob

• Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekendon October 12, 2009 9:53 pm

  30 to 40 hours at least.

  Then again, I’m building out a system right now, and still filling in what I consider foundational content. So I’m basically working on it all the time.

  By year’s end, I may be able to cut it down to about 3 hours/day, 5 days a week, on average. What that really means is knocking everything out for the week on Monday and Tuesday.

  Again, a big hunk of my time is being spent hammering out process. It will go down in the future.

• Make money blogging | blogging for moneyon October 12, 2009 8:11 pm

  I live on my blog, so definitely more than 40 hours a week.

  @ Blacke, I agree. Once you get your traffic (both organic and word of mouth) you won’t need to spend too much time on your blog.

  I’m sure Daniel will agree on this one. One of the hardest task when it comes to blogging is to promote a blog, isn’t it Daniel?

• Robert@PNGon October 12, 2009 8:02 pm

  I spend way too much time under the hood of WordPress. Gets me into a heap of trouble with wife – no time for much else!! As I dig and dig – I just find more and more. Have come to the conclusion that content is a necessary “evil”.

  R

• V.Con October 12, 2009 7:46 pm

  I actually work on my blog around 7 hours per day =.=
  So I am in “over 40 hours”.
  That’s quite over my strength.
  I wake up early and go to bed very late and exhausted.

• Jacques//An1kenon October 12, 2009 7:28 pm

  Well depends how many articles I have to do, I do about 9 a week so I spend about 10-20 hours on my blog each week, sometimes more sometimes less. All depends on the situation.

• Dan LaClocheon October 12, 2009 7:03 pm

  On an average, I’d say 5 hours per week. As someone who works with client remotely, I use my blogs to let people learn a little bit more about me and my style.

  • Purushyottam Ghoshon July 05, 2010 9:44 am

    I work almost 6 hours per day, 5 days a week, on my blogs. 😀

    BTW, an off-topic question, if you don’t mind: I see a checkbox “Subscribe to the Daily Blog Tips newsletter ” here. Which plugin do you use to create that option? Thanks for the help. 🙂

• Oscar – freestyle mindon October 12, 2009 6:43 pm

  I would say 5 hours on the blog per week is what I spend, but then I spend more time thinking on ideas, branding and promotion. I would ideally spend 7-8 hours per week creating valuable content, that’s my goal.

• Aftercanceron October 12, 2009 6:18 pm

  I know I spend more time on it than I should. I work full time so I do a lot of my blog work over the weekends but even if I didn’t work full time I think there still wouldn’t be enough hours in the day.

• Raivynon October 12, 2009 5:35 pm

  I spend about 20-30 hours on it each week.. didn’t realize it was that much until you asked. It’s a constant work in progress, and I feel like I never have enough time to work on it.

• Nicholas Cardoton October 12, 2009 5:03 pm

  I spend way too much time on my blog. LOL. That’s for sure. Good idea for a poll.

• Blake @ Props Blogon October 12, 2009 4:01 pm

  It seems like there is a lot more time devoted into getting started than maintaining. Getting the theme and logo setup take time. Getting all your facebook/twitter/linkedin accounts setup and working takes time. Marketing your site, commenting other sites in the community, and networking takes time.

  Once traffic is solid, a theme/brand is developed, you can focus more on just writing content. I also think when you can just sit down and focus on writing content, it’s easier to put out more content than when you’re doing everything all at once.