Blogging Tip: Prioritizing Blog Posts – Guest Post

This is a guest post from Justin over at DragonBlogger.com, if you haven’t already checked out his site (which I seriously doubt) read this and then get over there. Justin has a few different sites all of which doing really well, Justin over to you;

To try and combat writers block and burnout I will often scan media outlets as well as other bloggers websites and look for new blogging topics, after finding some interesting content I prioritize what to write about and in what order to better spread my blog posts around.

Topics that are “time critical” such as breaking news should always be posted immediately and any other posts you had scheduled should be pushed to make room for breaking news. I used to just post four to five posts a day early on in blogging, but ran out of material too quickly and found that I would rather post one consistent post and maybe one breaking news or current events type post as well.

Prioritize what posts should be in what order, sometimes posting about something a few weeks later is better than reporting it the day you read it. Examples include the following, I found a few good posts and articles on other bloggers. I may want to stagger my post that cites the article and links back to it a few days later or even a week. This can do several things, one the article may be fresh again and incite more interest, you aren’t competing in the moment against someone who just wrote the same type of information on the same day. Two by linking back to the original article you can give a boost to the writers content a week after it published, which can help revitalize an aging post (if you send enough backlink traffic).

I think informational articles should get the lowest priority (put on the back burner), ones that the information does not change day to day or week to week you can set to the back of the list so you can make room for more pressing and time critical articles. Examples would be my Earl Grey Tea Reviews article I wrote on my personal blog, it has nothing to do with a time critical event, and I scheduled it almost two weeks after I originally wrote the article.

I have always been a fan of saving a few articles in Draft Mode as well, keep them on reserve in case you have writers block, or need to donate an article for another blog as a guest post. By writing it in draft mode on your own blog first, you can format it how you want it to look and then just send the other blogger the HTML code so you know the tables, formatting come out right.

I share these tactics to prioritize your blog posts, ask yourself the following questions:

• Does this article address a current event issue?

• Is this article time sensitive?

• Can this article be posted 1 week from now and still achieve the same effect?

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