Whether you’re blogging for other people or for yourself, implementing and diligently following a blog posting schedule will help a lot in completing articles on time, while getting enough rest for ourselves.

Blogging Schedule Ideas

• List all the blogs you need to write for, and how many posts you need to write per week/month. For freelance writers, your clients probably gave you posting requirements, so this will be easier. On the other hand, bloggers writing for their own blogs need to enforce a bit more discipline.
• Group your blogs into the niches/categories they fall into, e.g. tech, gaming, pets, political, and so on. The idea here is that when your mind is set to a particular topic, it becomes easier (and faster) to write a string of blog posts about that topic. Jumping from one topic to another in a short duration of writing is doable, but a bit more tedious.
• Assign days to these groups as you see fit. For instance, writing for your pet blogs happens during Mondays and Tuesdays, while writing about iPods happens on Wednesdays.
• So, let’s assume you’ve followed the schedule. If you think the required posts you’ve finished written for a particular day needs a bit more polishing, don’t pressure yourself to publish all of them on that day. Keep them in your drafts where you can return to them a day or so later. Remember: these are posts that just need a bit more polishing. The purpose of the blogging schedule is defeated if the drafts are just going to be full of half-finished articles.

An Example

The schedule below is adapted (not ‘as is’) from mine, a full-time freelancing career, but the essence stays the same for part-time probloggers, too. Every month, I problog for 15 gaming blogs, a tech/geekery blog, 4 blog-centric blogs (along with doing reviews for a blog directory). I also co-own around 7 active blogs and sites.

Monday – Tech blog/Blogging blogs I

Tuesday – Gaming blogs (just short posts, so manageable)

Wednesday – Blogging blogs II

Thursday – Own blogs & websites

But where’s Friday? It can be your spare day, the day when you fill in missing blog posts, polish and publish your drafts, plan on how to expand your own projects…or simply take the time off. Full-time problogging doesn’t mean you have to work the whole week. (Aside from the putting-too-much-cake-on-my-plate syndrome, one thing really makes a blogger’s time vanish – lack of discipline.)

In the example above, Saturday and Sunday is also up to you; aside from rest, these days can be used to explore your other hobbies and interests (which can also be fuel for blogging ideas). In my case, the weekends are reserved for writing literature and attending a six month-long poetry workshop, so it’s time well-spent.

It’s Your Own Time, Your Own Sched

I know some people to whom the regular Monday-Friday workweek isn’t to their taste. Some like resting on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Some evenly spread their work across all seven days, taking care to inject some rest and recreation to keep those days balanced between fun and business. It’s up to you.

Just remember, no schedule is wrong. Having it is way better than having none. As long as it’s comfortable for you and you’re getting the job done on time, the blogging schedule you’ve set is as right as it can get.

The issue here is that readers will not be too forgiving in making criticism, taking them to levels where they would bash bloggers at will once they have the chance. Not all readers have the patience to understand the area of thinking of bloggers and this has been proven time and again. Rarely would they be merciful once they see inconsistencies in the content provided as well as errors to which they would spot instantly.

Hence the best way to approach blogging is to compose everything as patiently and focused as possible. There will be little room for marginal errors if bloggers would apply this type of an approach.

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The spur of the moment ideology is only normal and usually, it is these thoughts that attract attention on the web. People may not think of them to highly but the truth of it all is the fact that they are indeed something of interest to people who use the web as their premier source of information and quality content.

Nothing beats the ideas coming from personal inputs. They are not matched easily and cannot be among the countless reference materials available anywhere. They are unsolicited and have so far been the indirect ways of gaining extended inputs coming from sensible minds that simply cannot hold back ideas from setting in. In the end, the benefactors are the people who crave for something new other than newspapers and reference materials for bookish definitions and explanations.

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Irrelevant images pointing towards the actual gist of a blog entry is something that may be risky. For one thing, not all people would understand the actual intent of the blogger. To some people, blogs are just hobbies while for some it is actually a job.

These variances alone tell a lot of how the intent of a blog entry would impact the actual people viewing it. If a reader would get down and point towards the actual blog for proper understanding and yet finds no relevance at all on the topic at hand, then the blogger may as well lose one point towards inconsistency and incompetent blogging as a whole.

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All probloggers have started from the same area. It just needs to be remembered that all things need practice. This is what new bloggers are up to today. Blogging starts from an apprenticeship stage to which they will someday be at the helm of the new marketing tool towards building information and resources.

Blogging is about indirect and impromptu information. That is what makes it different from the usual factual articles people look for in the web today. It has now been a world of free press. People lean more on the claims rather than the facts. They provide extensive information to another degree, something that will surely be useful to people in need of updated information and insights.

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In the same way, blogging does not always mean that it is consistent. Unless citations, hyperlinks and references are present, readers have the freedom to criticize, agree or disagree with what they actually read. A blog entry is actually a topic to which people would start discussing or debate about what they read, mostly based on their own difference in opinion.

From hereon, the discussion thread or the comments section will soon grow being filled with different opinions with varying points to which other readers can agree or disagree as well.

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One thing about blogs is that they were made for a reason. This reason is that of easily understanding the usual hard to understand terminologies in the easiest way possible through detailed explanation through the view of a professional. This is the level to which they are impressed and not through seeing the same eye-bothering words that they are avoiding in the first place.

Hence, most bloggers would do well to take this into consideration. Blogs were never meant to take the place of dictionaries and encyclopedias. They were made to provide easier interface and understanding to people who simply want to know what issues and terms really mean in the simplest way possible.

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People will have low tolerance for people who would blog lackadaisically. There is a high expectation rate for blogging efficient topics of interest. Bloggers are always expected to produce the best form of output and this can only be done if they are focused and are in their right senses.

Reliability is also something that people put premium on. Everything else is left on the creativeness on how to expound on topics of interest to entice reader endorsement from thereon.

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This process is a daily one. Each day a person logs on to the Internet, there will surely be another topic that will interest them. Rightfully so, this stems from the fact that people crave for information originating either from gossip or factual events.

Hence, the next time a person would want to blog about something, perhaps it would be best to look around first and then brainstorm something that can be expounded to a personal aspect. Readers look for other inputs coming from people since criticism is where most people would usually find better understanding of an issue or topic at hand.

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There are also sites that aim to buckle down to business and have the whole entry seen upon access. While some readers would prefer to read blog entries upon reaching the page, this is deemed preferable to avoid clicking and for another page to load.

Of the two, it would depend on how a blogger would foresee that visitors who endorse their blog. Some would want a more compact type of representation since people would want to see other blog posts sorted by date. This way they can see what the other topic entries are and even access them as well.

On the other hand, some bloggers would want to do away with the need to navigate away from the page and just leave the whole entry there to be read. This approach provides the immediate access to such posts where information is the immediate need to be read and understood.

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