{"id":1894,"date":"2010-01-05T08:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2010-01-04T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T18:29:39","slug":"my-daily-work-plans-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/my-daily-work-plans-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"My Daily Work Plans for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that works well for me is to have generic projects that I work on regularly. At need I switch them to focus on particular sites, or drop them entirely if something special needs to be done, but having regular things I do really helps keep things moving.<\/p>\n<h2>Write 5 Articles or Blog Posts Per Day<\/h2>\n<p>This is actually down from in the past when I could easily manage 7 in a day. But with a baby I have less writing time, and this goal reflects that.<\/p>\n<p>At that, it&#8217;s a really challenging goal to reach right now. A lot of days I don&#8217;t manage it because time can be just so tight. That and the baby loves to pull up on my desk and pound the keyboard. Not a good thing when I&#8217;m trying to write. How I long for an office door some days!<\/p>\n<p>Writing 5 a day means that I can get all the blog posts for one week, Monday through Friday, done in a single day. If I like, that means the rest of the week any articles written for that site can be for article submission.<\/p>\n<p>Since I write for more than one site, it does not mean that I could write four times as much content for distribution as I do for my site. If I could do that, I&#8217;d probably just slightly up the blog posting frequency for a better balance.<\/p>\n<h2>10 Blog Comments Per Day<\/h2>\n<p>This one challenges me much of the time, but it is a bit easier to schedule. I can read through blog posts with my little Busy Bee on my lap, keyboard pushed in on its shelf under the desk, and figure out which posts I want to comment on later.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to have something to do where I can spread the effort out a little. It doesn&#8217;t work all the time, and I think commenting earlier is better than later for actual views of my comments, but it helps.<\/p>\n<h2>10 Forum Posts Per Day<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been slacking off on this one way too long.<\/p>\n<p>Forums can be a huge time suck, but appropriate forums that allow signatures can bring in respectable traffic if you keep your posts interesting. It&#8217;s not so much about advertising as it is building a reputation as a helpful participant in the forum.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Link Building Activities<\/h2>\n<p>The trouble with blog comments and forum posts is that they can be no follow on many sites. That&#8217;s not that bad a thing if you focus on eyeballs rather than search engines, but you want a range of links coming in to your site.<\/p>\n<p>Social bookmarking sites can be useful, and they go well beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/\">delicious<\/a>. Seek them out and add your links as appropriate to the particular site. But pay attention to the rules so your links aren&#8217;t just dropped as spam.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve quit doing link exchanges long since. They&#8217;re rarely worth the trouble. I had a small link exchange directory on this site for a time and the real link to random spam ratio was terrible and I finally deleted the whole mess rather than having to go in and delete spam submissions.<\/p>\n<h2>Finding the Time???<\/h2>\n<p>The worst of it all is finding the time for all of this. If you have the budget, I strongly suggest figuring out what you can put out to a virtual assistant. 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