I spend

1-2 hours to update the site content every day

2 hours for research for content

as for traffic, I always imagine myself as a visitor of my site, If there are something that I find do not work, i change the layout of my site design

I have a traffic of 200,000 per day. I'm trying to spend 4 hours for the site content, I hope my traffic would double.

I've got a slightly more liberal approach. I work when the mood takes me be it at nine in the morning or three in the morning. I think I spend about 2-3 hours a day on the content, publishing, researching, sourcing images etc.

Actually that last part can take a while and I've seen myself do a few hours on a small image for an article. I know it makes no sense - but I'm fussy and my site is actually for the visitors so I want it to look good and feel happy about what I have done.

Just a thought though - 200,000 visitors per day. I'd imagine you're doing very well income wise on that. I've got between 4-7 thousand a day, depending on the time of week and whether or not you believe Analytics or trust proper log reports. This is my main income, it pays the bills, feeds me and clothes me. I know people say you should rely on your AdSense income, but I'm happy with what I do and happier now than I ever was in a nine-to-five so I would say to anyone considering breaking out of the corporate shackles - go for it and good luck.

Sorry for going on a bit. I'm actually also curious about the number of pages of content that would generate 200K visitors a day?

I'd say 40% of the time on creating new content and 40% on maintaining existing content, the other 20% for optimization, ad placement, making sure search engines can properly access your web site, etc. This is about how I allot my time and the time of my helpers.

Chikung, I found your question the most interesting and original one to date. No "why are my earnings down", "how can I earn a million tomorrow from Adsense with no work" etc! It's a real question that I have never thought of, but it's so important. What is the best way to divide time to achieve maximum earnings?

I spend maybe 60% writing content, 20% research (I know my subject very well, but best to check it out and get different views), and the rest just mucking about on things like webmasterworld, google stats and the like. I'm glad I spent some time on webmasterworld because your question has made me think, am I spending my time efficiently and effectively - probably not!

Dear nomis5

I am so happy that you exactly understood the importance of my question. But still the regular players of the forum are not seems to be interested:( I was expecting lot of guidance from this perticular thread.

I don't mind if some famous personality on the forum comes up with the same topic with different words so that maximum people will participate. The point is to get the ideas that will be beneficial for everyone.

I sincerely request senior members to either participate in the discussion or start the new thread to bring maximum responses.

Chikung, I never really broke down my time into hours or percentages like you asked about.

I have about 40 websites total. I find myself working in a "circle" to keep all the sites updated. I pick one site to work on "today" or "this week" or however long it takes to update it. When I am satisfied that one site is "done" I move on to the next one.

Most of my sites are about travel/hotel reservations, so I have to update the hotel database, write up some fresh content, update any affiliate links I want on pages, etc.