I wanted to post a quick article on setting up a blogging schedule via Google Calendar. If you’re trying to take your blog to the next level and looking for a way to get organized, then setting up a schedule for your blog is the way to go.
I want to give a quick shout out to Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger for sharing this tip, as it will be sure to make mine and a lot of other people’s blogging a lot less stressful!
What is Google Calendar?
Google Calendar is a highly useful Calendar tool organize yourself much like Outlook. If used correctly, it can really help you get your ducks in a row. There are many functions that I like about it, but the two that help the most are the ability to set up Events & Tasks. In Google Calendar, you can view your agenda by day, week, and month (I chose month).
Events & Tasks
As I mentioned above, you can use Google Calendar to set up events and tasks. I have used the events function to set up my blog’s post topic schedule.
For each day of the week, I have a specific post type in mind to write about. This feature allows you to set up one-time events, or schedule repeating events till the end of time (or Google) if you wish.
In addition, you can set up tasks which can help you remember to take care of some additional blogging or SEO tasks such as link building or checking for broken links.
Why is Google Calendar good for your blog?
- Keeps your blog organized & focused.
- Keeps your blog topics consistent & precise.
- Helps you add a steady stream of fresh content to your blog.
- Help you remember the to complete the little SEO details.
- Sends reminders to you about blog events.
- Allows you to schedule events just once or ongoing.
- Good way to get a monthly blog overview.
- Keeps other publishers of your blog on topic (if there are more than just you).
- There’s more, but I can’t think of it all!
My Example
- Sundays: Blogging & Social Media (In Weekly Rotation)
- Mondays: Technical SEO Tips
- Tuesdays: Search & Tech News
- Wednesdays: WordPress SEO Tips
- Thursdays: SEO Videos
- Fridays: Link Love
- Saturdays: Rest Up & Drink a Beer!
Note: I didn’t include tasks in the example (I’ll probably do those as I go). This example is just how I’ll be doing things, but I encourage you to mix it up and add as many events and tasks as you like.
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