Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 5:22:36 GMT
Today you can read many guides online on how to create an editorial calendar for your blog, you can even download templates in Excel or PDF. My idea is that everyone finds the most suitable method, the one that allows them to work better, to organize themselves better above all. For Blue Pen I only use the usual list created at the beginning, I have never changed it and I don't think I will. Now I'm happy with this calendar, very simple and stripped down to the bare bones. My second blog, now closed, instead had a detailed calendar, in which I also noted the shares received by the posts on various social networks and the number of comments. A maniacal job, in short. But what information to include in the editorial calendar ? In my opinion the main ones are sufficient, as you have seen in the image: publication date: important, because it is an integral part of the calendar post title possible subtitle (here I use a plugin) post category description (which should always be written) url (which I simplify) Alternate blog topics Here is another of the functions of the editorial calendar.
Thanks to my list, I can keep track of the ideas that I post on the various days and I immediately notice if I have two posts in a row on editorial promotion or blogging, for example. In my second blog, at the beginning I had a very rigid calendar: I always alternated the categories cyclically, so that every day there was a different category. But such rigidity Special Data couldn't last and I quickly abandoned it. Here I happen to write two or three posts in a row about writing, but if one focuses on grammar, one on the plot of the novel and another on writing in general, in the end they are three different topics. The editorial calendar, therefore, avoids monotony in publications . In recent weeks, after having planned eight articles, I made a series of moves, precisely to have the right alternation of topics . Revitalize categories It happens that some categories remain a little abandoned. In some cases it is not worth continuing to "fill" it, as I did with the one on literary competitions.
Here, if I had not imported all the posts published in the second blog, the last article on copywriting would date back to November 2013. But even with those imported, the last post in that category is from August 2014. Even the Stories category is not filled often, but that, we know well, is a category that cannot be taken care of every day. A look at the editorial calendar makes us immediately understand which categories we write in most often and thus allows us to write articles in the less populated ones. Establish publication priorities You shouldn't see the editorial calendar as a cage. He wasn't born for that. Nor can it limit your creativity: I just don't see how that's possible. My editorial calendar is elastic : even if I have already written and planned about ten posts, until they come out they are subject to transfers. The editorial calendar is a time machine, of which we have the controls: we can change the future as we want. What are your publishing priorities? Every blogger has their own.
Thanks to my list, I can keep track of the ideas that I post on the various days and I immediately notice if I have two posts in a row on editorial promotion or blogging, for example. In my second blog, at the beginning I had a very rigid calendar: I always alternated the categories cyclically, so that every day there was a different category. But such rigidity Special Data couldn't last and I quickly abandoned it. Here I happen to write two or three posts in a row about writing, but if one focuses on grammar, one on the plot of the novel and another on writing in general, in the end they are three different topics. The editorial calendar, therefore, avoids monotony in publications . In recent weeks, after having planned eight articles, I made a series of moves, precisely to have the right alternation of topics . Revitalize categories It happens that some categories remain a little abandoned. In some cases it is not worth continuing to "fill" it, as I did with the one on literary competitions.
Here, if I had not imported all the posts published in the second blog, the last article on copywriting would date back to November 2013. But even with those imported, the last post in that category is from August 2014. Even the Stories category is not filled often, but that, we know well, is a category that cannot be taken care of every day. A look at the editorial calendar makes us immediately understand which categories we write in most often and thus allows us to write articles in the less populated ones. Establish publication priorities You shouldn't see the editorial calendar as a cage. He wasn't born for that. Nor can it limit your creativity: I just don't see how that's possible. My editorial calendar is elastic : even if I have already written and planned about ten posts, until they come out they are subject to transfers. The editorial calendar is a time machine, of which we have the controls: we can change the future as we want. What are your publishing priorities? Every blogger has their own.