Do you plan your blogging?
There is one thing that you will see spread to my blogs from my decision to do The Old Bald Guy’s Tour. Adding an additional 5 blog posts a week means I must be more organized.
Now I intentionally scheduled a variety of blogs so that..
- I would not get bored
- Start repeating myself because I was writing the same subject over and over
- Get me access to a much wider audience
But, because I am writing on a variety of topics planning becomes extremely important to keep on track. You want to make sure to stay on topic and cover a topic in logical steps. Each visit gets mind mapped on a specific topic to make sure that the series works before I write the first word.
This is something I tell my coaching clients regularly to plan out your posts but I get distracted just like you do and end up too often bouncing from topic to topic with no rhyme or reason.
Now the funny thing is that this only tends to happen on this blog and my Mike Paetzold blog as I do carefully plan out my niche blogs. Now that may be because I am buying content and it needs to pay off but shouldn’t your efforts be just as focused?
Take the time to plan out your blog posting for longer than just today’s post. Lay it out in a mind map based on your keyword research. Each time that I do and do a related series the results tend to be much better than when I just let it fly.
So do some planning first and schedule time for your planning. Do good keyword research like was covered in EZ Keyword Research.
Once you have your keywords lay out your plan in Free Mind and if you are unfamiliar with Free Mind check out Discover Free Mind to show you exactly how to use it effectively.
Now go take action.
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Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. |
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6 comments
Joel Osborne
Twitter: JoelOsborne
on November 29, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Good tip Mike. I often forget to plan out my blog posts, but with different blogs about different topics like you, it’s a bit easier, since you already know the general topic of post.
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Brett McEllhiney on November 30, 2009 at 12:00 am
This is definitely something I need to do a better job at. My blogs are for the most part never planned out and I usually just write off the cuff.
Thanks for the tips Mike and I like how you have incorporated the keyword research as well as this is a very important step.
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Earl Netwal on November 30, 2009 at 6:47 pm
So easy to say, so hard to actually do. Seem all my writing, be it blogs, or articles or what have you goes through spurts of activity and then the muses dry up and I have difficulty crafting much of anything. But practice makes perfect.
Do you create calendar to schedule your blog articles by topic?
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Fred Lotgering on December 1, 2009 at 11:19 am
I’m still in a planning phase. Tried already several times but somehow it always get of target.
Planning is good, one way seems to help me is to get a folders set up for each of your blog and dump/copy any information there you might think of to use in the future.
Fred
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Shelby Carr on December 5, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I hadn’t really thought about planning out my blog posts. Now I can see why I should. Thanks, Mike. I am definitely going to use this strategy to not only keep me on topic, but to save me lots of time, which I never have enough of.
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Andre Arnett
Twitter: learningaffil
on December 5, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Great tip Mike. If there is one thing I need more of it is planning. I like the way you plan out how and what you will write on your blogs. Maybe something I should study more and get it done the right way.
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