How To Keep Your Blog On Track With A Timetable | Create A Blog Schedule

As with most things in life, things often turn out better when they are planned and you have a set of targets in place for what you want to achieve and a strategy for getting there. That same principle applies to blogging. To create a blog you have to create a timetable to be able to keep things regular and stay on track to reach my targets. It doesn’t have to be complex but if your publishing a post today and nothing for another couple of weeks you will lose a lot of your regular readers as they will come back and there is no new content. So bellow I have put a rough example of planning and putting a certain amount of it on autopilot so I can get on with other tasks in my life.

Sunday

Write 3 post to be published over the week.

Plan for the week ahead. Social media strategy, schedule email marketing, schedule the publishing of the posts…

Monday

1 post published and bookmarked and email sent out to my mailing list

Research and reading

Tuesday

Look at all the results for the week, traffic, income, comments…

Wednesday

1 post published and bookmarked and email sent out to my mailing list

Thursday

Day of rest

Friday

1 post published and bookmarked and email sent out to my mailing list

Look at all the results for the week, traffic, income, comments and so on.

Saturday

Day of rest, although it never seems that way.

So you can see from my very rough timetable I have a plan of action for the week. That is the attention that this blog gets and more at the moment. In the first month or two of putting the blog together and putting it live on the internet there are loads more tasks to do to be able to build up the traffic and readership whilst Google ranks your site. If you have done everything right you should start to see a lot more organic traffic as well as referral traffic. But once you have a regular readership, a mailing list that is growing and social media followers your work practically goes on autopilot. For example you can plan your weeks social media strategy and use the right software to automate it and set up your weeks worth of mailing and schedule everything for deployment. After you’ve done all that your ready to pretty much sit back and watch the visitors come to your site.

This is a rough timetable of how I run this blog, at the moment I am putting a lot more work into it, testing different aspects and so on. But it also gives you an example of how easy a blog can be run once your past the first few hurdles of getting it setup and going. The first 3 months are always the hardest and after that you should start to see some results. So think about it, if you start today, 3 months time you could put in a few hours a week and start a new project whilst you have an income from that and a growing audience. So if you want to make a start have a look at the following links to help you onto a flying start.

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