Planning and keeping on top of blog posts can be a mission at times, especially if you have no idea what to post. The worst feeling in the world is getting the motivation to sit down and write only to realise you have no idea what you want to post this month. You spent hours working it out only to lose motivation.
This used to happen to me all the time, until one day, I decided to make a change. I tried countless different ways to organise blog posts for a year, but nothing seemed to work for me until I decided to make up my own way, and now I am two years ahead with blog post planning.
You don't need much for this either. All you will need is:
- Something to write your content out (I use OneNote to keep track but you can use anything you want.)
- The internet
- Time
- Your brain
To start off with, work out how often you want to post on your blog. I will be using this blog for all my examples with actual posts for this year. I post twice a month at 1pm each day, so what I would do to start off with is write out the month and the dates I will be posting the blog post. I like mine to look pretty, but you don't have to
Example:
May
1st:
15th:
June
1st:
15th:
July
1st:15th:
I do this for every month of the year on all three of my blogs. I spend just under a week planning out a year's worth of content, but that is just because I have to do it for three blogs; but it can take a lot less time for just one blog, but it really depends on how many posts you need to come up with as well.
Next is the tiring part, where you will need time on your hands. This is where I first sit down with a blank document and write out any ideas off the top of my head that I might like to write as well as searching the internet for ideas (I know I did). Pinterest is where I get most of them, but sometimes blogs will release a list of blog ideas. I don't worry about how many ideas I come up with because I might not even use them in the end, but making a list of ideas means I can then work out what I know I can actually write this year because sometimes some of the blog posts I think of could take years to write.
My list will look something like this:
- My favourite cleaning products
- My skincare routine
- Beauty on a budget
- Life update
- Pregnancy tag
- How I keep track of posts I make
- How I manage my time
- How to budget
- Baby must-haves
- Ways to make extra money
- How I plan out a years blogging content in a week.'
- What's in my hospital bag
- Why I love blogging
Once i have run out of ideas or can't find any more ideas online, i then look through the list and start working out what i can make; I will then randomly assign a blog post to a posting date.
While I am doing this, I am also thinking more into it; For beauty on a budget, it could be for a date night, so I might place that in February because that's when most people go on dates.
In the end, my planning will look like this.
May
1st: How I keep track of posts I make
15th: How I plan out a years of blogging content in a week
June
1st: Ways to make extra money
15th: What's in my hospital bag
July
1st: Why I love blogging15th: My favourite cleaning products
I then copy the list of the ideas that didn't get picked and put it on a document for when next year comes around, and I need to think of ideas on what to post. As I come up with new ideas throughout the year, I will add them to that list.
There you have it, how I plan out a full year worth of content in only a week; if you guys are bloggers, let me know how you plan out your blog posts if you do and if your not a blogger, then let me know what you want to see from me.
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