Blog Post Scheduling Guide – Plan and Get More Done

This post is about what you need to schedule in order to be an efficient blogger. I am not that excellent in keeping my schedules 100%, however I am working on it . This post is written just as much as a reminder for me as it is a guide for all you. Now I’ll start with the things that you should consider planning:

• Posting Interval
• Time for research
• Having a backlog of posts and ideas
• Time for interaction
• Planning for failures

Blog Post Interval

Have a preplanned blog posting interval. The keyword is preplanned. Do not try to wing it is much as I do. Make a decision right away to have a schedule. It may be every day, every other day or twice a day. Just make a decision and stick to it like glue.

When you have a preplanned schedule it forces you to stick to it. It even helps you to write beforehand if you have a fixed post interval. Read more of writing with the perfect post interval.

Plan for Failures

Guess what, you will not make all your deadlines and posting schedules. You may get sick or have something unexpected to mess around with your time table. That is why you should plan to fail sometimes and have a backup. You can do this by having a backlog of posts.

Post backlog

You should a have a backlog of posts for at least five days in the future. At this point I have zero. It means that I am basically screwed when I am too busy to update this blog. This is something that I am working on right now. The more posts you have pre-scheduled, the more leeway you have for unexpected events.

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How Often Should You Post?

This is a question that has puzzled many people in forums and other places. Even people in the happy land of Twitter have been wondering about it. How much you should post varies by many factors. It all depends.

Optimizing for Readers

If you want a successful blog, you should focus on optimizing your post interval to fit your readers. In my opinion keeping a constant writing interval will bring in the best amount of readers. When you keep a constant update interval, then people will come to your site regularly to check back on how you are doing.

There may be some days that you have the drive to write several posts. If you write for on average a post a day normally, then I would cache part of the posts and published them at a later date. Never publish 5 posts one day and then 0 posts on the next five days. As long as your update interval is regular, you will get readers to come back. As an aim I would keep to write a post every single day. It is enough to show people that you are regular blogger that is worth following.

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