How many pages do you manage? How many do you think you can manage in your spare time?

That's part of the formula that I'm trying to figure out too. I'm trying to select a combination of pages. Some require a lot of updating, some require a little bit of updating, and some don't require any updating (I donno how those will work with the 10/15 day rule).

So I don't know if it's about a true number of pages or if it is about workflow and selection. That being said, I've seen some truly amazing "updaters" in my time. I know that with the right motivation, feedback, and personality, some folks could easily whip through at least 100 pages a day.

After being in business for 2 years, I bet Mahalo knows exactly how many pages a regular person can update. While I don't think that any one person could update the "top 20" pages, I think that a person could easily update pages from a range of pages.

I have 20 pages right now which is the limit for my belt level. Most of the pages were created already, and the ones that were not, created pretty much automatically. It will be trial and error to see how many pages one can manage and continually update.

I think it will all work out as time goes by. If you have too many, then the inactive ones will be released to other members. Here are the limits to how many pages each belt level can manage: New User: 1 Yellow Belt: 5 Green Belt: 10 Purple Belt: 20 Brown Belt: 50 Black Belt: 100.

I currently am managing 8 pages (would be 10 pages, AHEM, Mahalo, if there wasn't a bug preventing me from taking two more as I should be able to! ). And right now I'm finding that they're quite the handful.

Granted, I'm just getting them off the ground right now. So while I can easily spend 30-60 min/day on each page, I'm hoping that will thin out to 15-20 min/day once the pages are solid and just need regular updating. So let's play MAHALO MATH!

If I plan on updating each page twice a week, spending 15 min on each page's update, then Train #2 will arrive in Cleveland at 4 o'clock. Wait - no. That's not right.No, that would mean that I would spend 30 minutes per week, per page.

30 minutes x 8 pages = 240 minutes = 4 hours per week of Mahalo work That's not bad. (Although can I hand an additional 4 hours to my Mahalo week on top of what I already spend here?) Of course if each page is paying out $.25/week, that means my going rate for Page maintenance is roughly 1.6 CENTS/HOUR! Meh.

There goes my chance to retire young. I think the lesson here is that you should budget at least 30 minutes per week for each Page you adopt. And only adopt pages you can really afford to maintain, and don't presume that you will make good money off of your time.

This should be a labor of pleasure for you.

Updating these pages really isn't as hard as it sounds. Right now it seems like everyone may be a little overwhelmed but once you get the feel for it and of course get your pages just the way you want them, you will be able to do a lot more than you think!

I'm going to claim up to my max and go from there. I'm thinking that I'm going to just see which ones are hold my interest. If some pages get abandoned its not going to hurt anything and may help someone else out a bit.

I manage 1 page, and at this pace I can easily manage 10 pages in addition to a full-time job.

I've got 15, but 11 of them are all related (Personality Disorders and the 10 PDs themselves). I have yet to figure out how to juggle these, answering questions and having a life. Right now, I'm just attending to the pages when I can and getting them set up the way I think they should be set up.

Once that's done, I don't think I'll be spending THAT much time to update them... Unless there is some major news or something...

I have about 10 pages and will be able to update at least provide an update to each page every week. As long as I have content to add, I should be ok. I try to make my updates as fast as possible.

Maybe you could pick your pages based on maximizing traffic but minimizing the need for updates, although that does sounds like a tricky balancing act.

I'm in a similar postion to Rob. I've claimed nearly 50 pages, and I'll see how it goes. Partly I wanted to claim up to my limit to make sure I didn't miss out pages that I wanted only to regret it later.

Partly so I have a broad sample of subject areas to see what the traffic patterns look like, and what is popular here. If it turns out that 50 is too many I can always release some. It's a bit more manageable than it sounds because not all of them need a frequent update.

For example I have Paul Newman and The Wire which shouldn't really need much maintenance once they're in good shape. There will be no more Paul Newman movies or The Wire episodes now. Also many of my pages are closely related, so it's not like trying to keep track of lots of different things.

I have the top three tennis players in the world, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray. But if you keep track of tennis news anyway, like I do, that's no big deal, and you get the important info about all of them in the same places anyway. Likewise I have iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone Applications, iPhone Accessories.

Different aspects of one topic maybe. Based on what I've found so far, I can probably make enough updates to my 50 pages that I won't lose them in around 2-3 hours per week. But that means the updates are pretty small.

Maybe selecting the best recent news story for a topic and assigning it to the top 7, or choosing a new pic to showcase as featured photo. The downside is spending 2-3 hours on small changes might not be such a great use of my time. An hour each on three topics that are really hot that week might be a lot better use of my time.It's still early days, but I think the pages I'll end up keeping might end up being restricted to just these kinds: - Things I love, and would be keeping track of anyway - Things I know and care about, and which don't need a lot of updating - Things that make a lot of money, and are worth the effort Ideally, all three at once.

:).

I currently manage 5 pages and hope to manage a few more sometime soon. If you're trully interested in the topics you manage, there shouldn't be any problem in you managing a large number of them (within reason).

20 Top Five 1. Utah (100 hours to complete) 2. Utah Jazz (25 hours) 3.

Bank (400 hours to complete) 4. ASP. NET (100 hours to complete) 5.

Credit (50 hours) It will take time to build up the page with useful information. I have a large collection of links about 5k links that I'm looking at plus information from my microtheory search engine. I'm starting to see area that I need collect more information.

I think Wolfram Alpha may start to become more useful. Mahalo like to keep the theme of the page.

I have 10 pages, and I worked out 3 pages per day with 4 on the 3rd day. Total time spent each day about hour and a half. Now I can wait a week before working on them again.

Only problem is figuring out what to do with each page every week, there won't be things to update on each page once a week.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.