Aug | 06 | 2007

Setting a Blog Posting Schedule

Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing

There are a few gifted bloggers who somehow manage to finish their posting requirements on time – how many they might be – even if they are slackers and crammers. But for the majority of us bloggers and freelancers, posting regularly proves to be a hurdle.

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.

26 Responses

BeachBum
06|Aug|2007

I just wrote about thsi same subject the other day. Nice to see others thinking the same way.

I have a 7 day theme and try to plan the next 2 weeks ahead.

BeachBum
Phillip
06|Aug|2007

great to see you having a blogging schedule of your own, beachbum.

for the other readers, you might want to check out his post here; it’s a great example of a sched for a single blog.
Hannah
07|Aug|2007

I love this topic. Because I am horrible at keeping schedules. The crazy thing is that when I find myself clearing all my backlog something comes along (like my son getting hospitalized or me getting sick or a few friends dropping by unexpectedly) and I get a new backlog of work!

One answer to a freelance writer’s woes is not just a schedule i think but a laptop!

Anyway back to the topic. I think you should also set aside time at the start of the month or each week to write down specific topics/titles for a series of posts. This works for me especially for writing blogs of the same nature since I don’t want to be posting the same topic for each blog, which is what sometimes happens when I write them on the same day without specific ideas outlined beforehand.

Anyway you’re right. Whatever works for you. As long as we have a schedule you can keep (at least most of the time) then it’s better than none. Now …if only I can stick to mine!
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Yes Phillip! It is very important to have a schedule for posting. I always struggle with it. I have a news blog (Pune Real Estate Market News) and it takes lot of time to research. Which is a great risk because news is no news if it is not a news! If you can suggest some thing about this, would be a great help!
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