{"id":918,"date":"2010-09-02T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2010-09-02T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:17:18","slug":"4-things-i-learned-from-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/4-things-i-learned-from-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Things I learned from blogging 11 days straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said I was going to blog for 6 months straight but last night after a streak of 11 days I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>I was at home, and after I moved my things into my new flat, I just passed out. I&#8217;ve been plain tired with the start-up, planning for the CSS meet up, an early and long drive from SF to LA, and a touch of jet lag from returning back from NYC.<\/p>\n<p>But even though the project is a fail, here is what I learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I learned that you can blog from your smartphone using <a href=\"http:\/\/ios.wordpress.org\/\">the WordPress App<\/a>. This really helped while I was in Brooklyn and didn&#8217;t have my laptop.<\/li>\n<li>Weekends really suck for a tech blog. My traffic just dropped.<\/li>\n<li>Keyword focused-posts and quality posts grow traffic. There is no way around this.<\/li>\n<li>A really good blog post can take up 4 hours of your day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said I was going to blog for 6 months straight but last night after a streak of 11 days I stopped. I was at home, and after I moved my things into my new flat, I just passed out. I&#8217;ve been plain tired with the start-up, planning for the CSS meet up, an early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-how-to","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}