Have you created a blog plan? Have you ever thought about what you’d like for your blog? What would you like your blog to look like in 6 months, 1 year, 5 years?
If you’re not sure of the answers to these questions, this post and my blog plan workbook will help you set some simple, and achievable goals to help you create a blog and achieve a profitable blog business.
Would you like to create a 1-year blog plan and posting schedule that allows you to focus on the blogging tasks that really matter?
Since I have started a blog business, and Blog Plan is the most important to achieve the goals. I will be going over step-by-step how to schedule a 1-year blog plan.
I know how overwhelming it can be to want to accomplish so much and not know where to begin. But after almost 5 years of blogging and 3 blogs, I’ve learned a system that works really well. So I want to share my experience with you.
I am adding my blog plan workbook to help you plan your blog posting plan.
Creating a Blog Plan
1. Set your 1-year goals and break down goals into quarterly.
Set up your Blog goals
Setting goals is important if you want to grow your blog. It will help you focus your time and energy on what’s most important. And knowing what you’ll be achieving will give you some added incentive to keep going.
Proper goal-setting allows you to tie in your grand ambitions with your day-to-day tactics, so you never get in over your head – but crucially, never sell yourself short, either.
Write down strategies for your goals.
We all know how to set up goals. A well-known method is the SMART method. If you want to know more about the SMART method, please read “personal growth – how to live a better life”
Break down each goal with strategies. How to achieve each goal and by when. After that, you can focus on quarterly goals.
Blog Plan workbook
Set your year-around action tasks
Besides Quarterly actions, write down year around actions. For example eg, Pinterest pins, Instagram management, own product or service contents creation.
2. Create post editorial calendar.
I used to plan content schedules with an excel spreadsheet. It is a great tool to keep track of keywords and posting ideas. However, I am a planner lover. I love to write something with a pen and paper. Now also I am addicted to digital panner creation as well. Whatever works for you, you need to create an editorial planner.
I have added the editorial planner in the Blog plan workbook. You can download and use it.
Editorial blog planner
Content Mix a.k.a post types mix
Outline Your Content Mix
There are many types of posts. In order to keep things interesting for your visitors, it’s a good strategy to mix up the type of post.
Here are the main types of content that blogs produce:
How-to guides
Opinion articles
List
Product reviews
Case studies
Infographics
Videos
Podcasts
Interviews
Studies and research papers
You can mix the type of post followed by you your niche.
Post ideas cheat sheets
Internation/ national Holiday and event
You can write some important dates and events when planning your editorial calendar, including:
Important holidays
Industry events
Important business dates, such as new product releases or events
Relevant national holidays or event.
Well-written posts about the topics for holidays or events can be viral.
3. Have a brain dump notes to write posting ideas.
Do you think generating posting ideas can be a daunting task?
Well… Yes or No.
As you read my post “Blog SEO: Search engine optimization-The 8 useful tips”, Research main keywords and related keywords are important and fun. I have spent a lot of time researching keywords than scrolling social media for friends’ personal posts.
I have added the blog post planner sheet to the blog plan workbook. You can check and search for each question.
4. Add post ideas and keywords add to tour editorial calendar for your blog.
As follow generating post ideas regularly, You will have enough for 1 year for a blog post plan. Now add them to your calendar.
As you can see, under the Topic/Type, main keywords, why people search those keywords, you can make it clear what type of post you will write.
Conclusion
Having an editorial calendar for your blog helps you achieve your goals. Also, you can stay focus and keep motivated.
Let me ask you. How many times have you had to come up with a blog post idea a day?
Having the blog plan workbook on hand, you can write down post ideas whenever you come up with them. You can create an editorial calendar with lots of post ideas, you can publish your post consistently.
Yeah! Never runs out of ideas!
Planning your content in advance helps you ensure each piece of content you publish will help you reach your marketing goals.
Free Printable Blog Plan
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