Jason Murphy

Weekend Blog Warrior

Sep 18, 2007 Blog General, Business & Marketing

There have been several occasions where I have found myself dicking around on the weekend and wondering “Where did all the bloggers go?”.

Well, Muhammad Saleem answered all my weekend blogging worries with 4 reasons to write on the weekend and 4 posts to do it with.

But weekend blogger abandonment issues aren’t just for bloggers. I’ve found out that trying sell domains, websites, traffic and ads on the weekend is either the worse possible time to attempt such transactions or the absolutely most perfect time to make a deal. Depends on whether you’re buying or selling.

All web productions, sales, development, SEO, blah blah, is stuff I do on the evenings and weekends. I have a FT gig working with an affiliate marketing company. But my “hobby” is creating websites, or at least writing down killer ideas I have for unique websites. My resources of un (c’est moi!) limit my production ability as of late, so my hobby has been reduced to just writing down things I think about.

Naturally if I build up the energy (may require a minor solo pep rally and a dose of C&C Music Factory) to do some link building, I’ll be doing that chore on the weekend as well. Can make it tough to promote a story if your buddy list is all idle due to inactivity.

So, Muhammad, I sympathize with your weekend woes. But even more, I agree that weekend is full of opportunity. Getting on digg, techmeme, or megite (Hi Megite, u hear me now?) is certainly worth the effort. However, I think that finding other bloggers to network with and startup a Lonely Hearts Club Band (like Sgt. Pepper) is even more valuable. I’ll be keeping a closer eye on my feed reader on the weekends and make an extra effort to link to those who are playing along.

Reading Mr. Saleem’s post reconfirms my previous notions that weekend blogging is very worthwhile. In fact, I had three posts over the weekend after a week-long drought. My daily uniques average is up over 300% for Sunday and Monday as compared to the other previous 6 days combined. Sure, you could blame the BlogRush hype machine for that, but I like to think the weekend helped.