BLOGGING: ORGANISATION

BLOGGING: ORGANISATION TIPS

There’s so much to do when it comes to blogging, that it can be hard to keep track of it all. Before I started blogging, I didn’t realise how much effort goes in to running a blog. Well, running a blog if you actually want it to be read. There’s the actual process of writing of the post, taking photos, seo optimisation, formatting and so on, which takes up 20% of the time, and then promoting your blog makes up maybe another 60–70%, and then the designing, website maintenance, replying to emails and all the other background blogging stuff that makes up the rest of the time. It’s hard work, and there’s so much to keep a track of that it’s so easy to become disorganised with it.

I’m not saying you need to be organised to be successful, but it can surely only help (and save you time!). Here are my top tips for organising your blog:

1. CREATE A POST SCHEDULE

I’m not talking like a “post every Monday Wednesday Friday” schedule, I mean like a chart, where you can see what posts you’re planning to do in the future, so you know what you need to get done.

2. YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY FOLDERS

Organising pictures on my laptop has been a constant challenge of mine because of the sheer amount I have (my laptop has peaked at 70k in terms of memory, I’m archiving old ones off now). In terms of blog photos, I used to have all my photos in one folder titled ‘Blog photos’ (original, I know) but this soon became messy. Now I create a folder for each post and keep all photos, graphics, word documents with text and anything else in there. I’m going to soon make a folder for each category for the posts, but at the minute my set up is something like this:

Folders don’t use up memory, so make as many as possible. Name your things sensibly and you can search for the items too.

3. HAVE A DESIGNATED PLACE FOR POST IDEAS

I know a lot of people have post ideas all over the place, some never making it to paper (or screen). It doesn’t matter where you keep your list of ideas, but make sure you keep it consistent. You could use a bullet journal or other notebook, an app on your phone, a spreadsheet etc.

4. CREATE A BLOG POST TO DO LIST

Create a routine to do list you can always refer back to so you can ensure you haven’t forgotten anything.

5. BACK UP REGULARLY

This is important. I’m sure the reason why is fairly obvious.