Interview with Steven Snell, author of Vandelaydesign.com
Today’s interview is with Steven Snell. Steven runs vandelaydesign.com and traffikd.com. He writes about web design, marketing, blogging, social media, and SEO. His websites are very useful, make sure you check them out.
Steven, can you give a quick introduction of who you are and what you do?
Well, I’m a web designer and a blogger (I live in the U.S.). In the last
year I have been writing the blog at Vandelay Website Design and just last
month I launched Traffikd as sort of a side project. I’ve also been doing a
good bit of freelance blogging for various blogs.
What got you into blogging?
Initially I started blogging in attempt to get some search traffic to the
Vandelay Website Design site. I didn’t know much about blogging at the
time, but I knew the SEO benefits of having a good bit of keyword-rich
content on the site. That was my initial goal, but once the traffic started
coming from some other sources (like social media) I got excited and
dedicated. Things kind of took off unexpectedly from there.
What does your average day look like? How do you budget your time?
Well, I have a full-time job, so I work until 5:00 there. When I get home I spend about 5 hours working on my blogs and articles for other blogs, as well as whatever design projects I have going at the time. I spend most of my weekend working on that stuff as well. Each day really is different depending on what I have going on, but I’ve been spending more time recently on writing than designing. Managing my blogs is taking an increasing amount of time, just doing stuff like handling email and responding to comments. I think at sometime it will become a full-time career, but until then it takes a lot of evenings and weekends.
