How do you manage to blog so regularly?
This is offten question I get.
My ansver is quite simple.
Because I enjoy blogging and I have routine to help me stay organized. And still having some sort of life. 🙂
In this post, I share my blogging routine and hope this inspire you to create your own routine that will help you stay on track with your blog.
Brainstorm
Every now and then I decide to brainstorm. This means that I take some time for a little Googling and get some new posts ideas. I check the keywords through which visitors come to my blog, I also check comments on my blog and I try to remember the questions I get in my business – often there I get some great ideas. Then I write everything down in Meistertask.
Planning
When a new month starts its time to plan post for the whole month. For planning, I use my printable monthly tracker that my subscribers get every month (more). Although I have prepared a plan of my blog post for a month in advance I often change them when I start to prepare theme.
Write
I write and create a new blog post in several parts. First I google, check and educate myself a little bit more about a new subject. Then I prepare a draft. And write.
Write…
Write…
Once the text is ready, I read it one more time, try to proofread it and check grammar.
I also prepare translation (Slovenian/English)
Photograph, graphics
Order of writing and photography can be changed. Depends on the blog post I try to create my own photos or graphics. But sometimes I also find some great stock photos and use them in my blog post instead.
Edit, SEO
I check my blog post how it looks and edits it if needed. I also optimize it for Google (keywords, description, image titles and alt)… And when I’m satisfied with the blog, I schedule it.
For every blog post, I also prepare an email.
I prepare contents.
Photo.
And schedule it.
“Promotion”
After sending email, I also notify my Facebook friends, publish a notification on G+, Pinterest and sometimes on Twitter and Instagram.
One of the questions I often get is also how much time I spend to prepare a new blog post. It depends on a post and my inspiration. 🙂 But for e.g. Sunday’s post I spend:
Brainstorm: monthly 2 hours
Planning: 1 hour
Write: 2 – 5 hours
Photograph, graphics: 1 – 3 hours
Edit, SEO – 30min
Email – 15min
Promotion – 15min
4 – 9 hours altogether per blog post (Slovenian and English). Quite a lot of time, but if you divide it by days (especially writing) is much easier.
Do you have a routine for your blog? I’d love to hear all about them below!
Cody F says
I do not have much of a routine, but need one! This was helpful!
Tom @ Abroad American says
Great to hear what you’re doing! I need to write down my procedure, too, just so it’s in my own head as a sort of checklist for future posts. Thanks for taking the time to put it down on “paper”, and share it with us!
Kelly Cannon says
Interesting! Our timelines are very similar, but I tend to spend a lot more time on promotion. I’m a believer in the 80/20 rule – 20% of my time is spent on creation, 80% is spent on promoting. I’m very glad I’m not doing my blog in two languages though! I don’t know how I’d find the time! 😀
Maja says
80/20 rule seems a great idea. I should do it more often! 🙂 Especially because so much time goes to create a new blog post.. it is worth to promote it a little bit more. Thank you!
Bruce Schinkel says
Great overview of your blogging process, thanks so much for sharing. I often find that the SEO, Email, and promotion are the pieces missing for most people, but they don’t need to become big time-consuming drains to help you get the word out. Plus they’re so important to keeping your blog alive!
Luke says
Thanks for sharing! Crazy how much work goes into a good blog post!
Susan @ Culinary Envy says
I love learning about what other bloggers are doing! This was very informative and a lot like what I do! Happy Blogging!
Melody Rosa says
Great tips. I prepare similar to you but I def need to work on my email more.
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