This is a question that you should ask yourself when you have a blog and you want to take it seriously. If you are a full time blogger, then the answer will be very different, but if you are blogging for fun, hobby and to make some money out of your blog and keep your readers stick to your blog and subscribe to your blog posts.

It depends on each and every blogger to decide the amount of time that can be dedicated for blogging or maintaining a blog. You need to make sure that you do the following every day or at least once in two days. Again I would mention that what ever you do, it should be consistent.

You need to do the number of posts that you have decided to do every day or every alternate day - You should decide the number of posts that you do on a daily basis or on every alternate days and do it consistently. Don’t do 10 posts today and no posts for next ten days. I know you may have practical problems in doing post consistently, but you can overcome this buy modifying the publishing time of the posts. What I do is I always have some scheduled posts in line. Suppose I have more time and I have got some new ideas of posts, I just write all the posts and publish it by modifying the publishing date and time to a future one and these posts are published automatically when the date and time is reached.

You should moderate the comments held for moderation - You need to moderate the comments that are held for moderation and I would even suggest to go through the spam comments as I have find many good comments marked as spam. You should do this at least once in a day so that the visitors are encouraged and they really feel that you are spending time for your blog and going through what they are asking you or you are valuing their contribution.

You should reply to the comments - You should reply to all the comments promptly and this is one the most important factor to grow your blog comments

You should update your posts - There are many situation that you may have to update your published posts. This is also very important

You should analyse the performance of your blog - You do not need to do this every day, but I feel you should go through the reports of your blog at-least once in a week

Approve ads, payment etc - This is something which you should not delay. If you are running any advertising program for your blog, and you need to approve ads manually then its very important that you do the approval at the earliest and make the ads live as soon as possible

Now doing all the above mentioned process should be planned well and you should do prioritising the tasks. You should plan your day well and do things as per the priority. For example, if you are very busy on a particular day, you can give the first priority to Approving the ads and can delay posting a new page for the next available time.

To conclude it depends on you to decide, how much time do you need to spend on your blog, but what every you decide, you should be consistent

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