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Are Bloggers Permitted To Have Days Off?

This is one question that is perhaps while incorrectly phrased but still something that is been lingering in my mind …

Can you take a weekend off without loosing your audience?

I generally try to program at least one post to go live on weekend to retain the consistence of posting but like this extended weekend I failed to follow through.

Blogging is as much commitment to post what is expected from you, as it is fun. You are expected to produce information and produce it at predictable intervals but what if you just taking time off?

How does it affect your readership?

I would love to hear your opinion!

And while I didn’t write anything myself this weekend I took the time in the evening to read some other excellent posts from the blogs I subscribe (I had a backlog of several hundred posts in my RSS Reader) and want to share with your some articles I found to be more then simply interesting:

And here are a few plugins for your WordPress blog that are wel worth installing:

  • Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers is a must have for anyone offering email subscription via FeedBurner. It provides you with a simple interface to send a custom email to people who attempted to subscribe and didn’t confirm.
  • Categories Autolink does one thing and does it well – creates links to your categories from within content when matching category name is found.

Enjoy the reading and please provide me with feedback on your experience with taking time off!

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17 Responses to “Are Bloggers Permitted To Have Days Off?”

  1. Alberto - Libri e film (2 comments.) says:

    Thank you very much for the review of my plugin Categories Autolink!

  2. James Mann (1 comments.) says:

    I don’t take a lot of weekends off. My office is in my home and I like to be here when my family is off for the weekends. So I am very close to my office and can come in here to check on things as often as I like.

    I do love to go fishing and I love my garden so I use the week days to do enjoy these hobbies, while everyone else is working.

    I use Wordpress and make posts in advance that will pop up on my blogs while I am out enjoying myself on a stream or in my backyard garden.

    I don’t put up posts every single day because I don’t feel that is necessary to keep my readers, but I don’t like to go without posting for more than 2 days at a time.

    • TheSpot-er (961 comments.) says:

      Thanks James,

      Yeah .. I agree and work much in similar fashion and even this weekend while I wasn’t posting I was actually working on another project – providing an upgrade tutorial for my W2.0W customers and testing all the files …

      Thanks for comment!

  3. Mick (2 comments.) says:

    I personally prepare a blog post for Sunday during the week and than post it manually on Sunday. Mostly because I want to have a fresh blog post each Monday morning when folks get to their RSS reader on Monday morning.

    I know I could automate the task, in fact I already have a Wordpress plugin to automate, so perhaps I’ll do that in the future.

  4. David (3 comments.) says:

    Hey Alex!

    This is funny. I am one of your web20wealth fans and recently saw your comment about comment luv. Just installed and was giving some luv searching for “this blog uses the commentluv plugin” fishing, and found you on the second page, LOL.

    Your product, videos and tips totally ROCK

    Later, back to promoting the fishing site.

    David Riewe

    David’s last blog post..Starting a Business using Public Domain Products Based on History

  5. Alberto (2 comments.) says:

    Hi Alex,

    after a long time I would like to notify you that I recently updated the Categories Autolink plugin, which is now at the version 2.0 and I also created a new plugin, which is called Tags Autolink. It does the same work as Categories Autolink, but with tags.

  6. Michael (1 comments.) says:

    Permitted yes, when addicted, it becomes very hard to take a day off.

    Blogging is like breathing to some of us.

    Michaels last blog post..Swing for the fences to retain subscribers

  7. Peter (1 comments.) says:

    Hi,

    Just found this site just like another comment post above looking for fishing blogs?? Your blog however is very useful as I’m want monetize my blog and I see there is lots of info on here about this.

    I’ve put keywordluv on my site as it rewards good comments with a keyword backlink, do you think this a good idea or not?
    Peter´s last blog ..Buy a Shimano Baitrunner Reel My ComLuv Profile

  8. Tony Lee (4 comments.) says:

    Hi Alex,

    I think taking a day off or two depends on your amount of visitors and the type of blog your doing. For example, a “current events” blog would require almost daily admin attention, and a “marketing” blog might get away with taking a day off here and there.

    I think we all know you stay busy!
    Tony Lee´s last blog ..Want to improve Your Golf Score? Here’s 5 Simple Tips ! My ComLuv Profile

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