Time Management and Your Blog

I’ve been getting so many requests from bloggers on how to best manage their time when maintaining their blog. After looking back at what I do, it never dawned on me that your really have to keep a consistent schedule to keep up with your blog in order to keep in the “good graces” with the search engines.

As mentioned previously, the more new content you put in your blog, the better. To refresh the basic principals of blogging, you need to post regularly or the blog will slow down in the search engine “interest.” When starting a blog, you become a publisher and the responsibilty with it is regular content for visitors to consume daily. You see, search engines are built to provide new and changing content to all web surfers in order to keep the search engine popularity for itself.

SOLUTION: The best way to keep on track with regular posting to your blog is to put up a white board or keep a notebook near your computer that is dedicated to your posting schedule. If you can post at minimum, twice a week, you are golden. If you can post every other day, that’s better. But if you are really serious about how you want your blog positioned with both the search engines and your web visitors, you need to post once a day, at least Monday through Friday.

If you can spend the weekends writing 4 or 5 posts in advance and “time release” them during the course of the week, you can satisfy what everybody wants….consistent content in your blog. Most blog software has this time release feature built in. I exclusively use WordPress blog software and it works like a charm.

Getting back to your whiteboard and notebook….make sure you list out your days of posting and check off each day when it is posted. You will soon be proud of yourself when looking over all the posts you made in a short time.

In my next blog post, we will go over the topics to talk about in your posts and how to avoid the “mental block” of what to talk about.