Scheduling Blog Posts
On to Day 3 of the Become a Better Blogger Challenge.
Here is the goal:
Day 3. Write a week’s worth of posts in advance. Developing the habit of writing in advance will give you a safety net of content to fall back on when you’re lazy, busy or uninspired. Writing and posting in the same time-frame will inevitably lead to an erratic posting habit, because your readers will never know what to expect from you. Write enough posts in advance and you could also earn the right to a blogging holiday.
This is another aspect of the challenge that I pretty much already do. I don’t do it all the time but on an as needed basis. It is typical for me to have 1 or 2 posts a week prewritten and scheduled to go out. I also have quite a few posts saved as drafts where I have come up with an idea that sounds good so I write a blog title and intro and I inlcude relevent links to help me research. Then when I am looking for something to write about I browse through my drafts and select one I want to expand on.
On my NatureMoms blog I do a weekly wrap up of cool links and products I have found. This post exists as a draft usually for about a week collecting new links as I find them and it gets published on Fridays. If it weren’t for this feature I would “lose” a lot of the great ideas I get. Sometimes a blog is a lifesaver.
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