Blog for a living

I discovered something interesting. And something that’s a little unfortunate. I haven’t posted yesterday, and of course there was a huge drop in the number of visitors.

But I’ve found that it’s not only because I didn’t post so the SU traffic didn’t come, but also because I haven’t participated in online communities as I did previously. It’s really not a big deal, that means only 10-20 visitors daily, but quite quality traffic, most of them bloggers themselves who spend an average 5 minutes on my blog.

And it scared me a little. It seemed a little like if I’m not doing my daily “job” in such communities, I loose part of my traffic. And while I like hanging around on Blogcatalog for example, I’m not that kinda person who spends time for that if I’m not in that mood. And I definitely don’t want to go through all of them every day. That’s why the title is about carrying your blog on your shoulders.

I realized I should look for opportunities to automatize the traffic as much as possible, so I can focus more on writing posts instead. Then I can still check Blogcatalog or Mybloglog when I feel like doing it.

What about you? How much time do you spend promoting your blog “manually”? I’m curious.

Do you get low traffic on weekends?

I’ve read various opinions on the internet, and most bloggers say it’s not even worth posting on weekends, because there’s just no traffic.

But last weekend, I’ve experienced the exact opposite. I posted on Saturday, but not on Sunday. My traffic was the highest on the weekend, precisely on Sunday. It surprised me very much especially after seeing that even bigger blogs follow the very common habit to stop posting after Friday.

So this weekend, I took a day off to see what happens. My traffic decreased significantly. 
Then I searched a little on the topic, analyzed the difference between the last and this weekend and I got to this conclusion:

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