PB012: Create an Editorial Calendar for Your Blog [Day 12 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]

How to Create an Editorial Calendar for your Blog Yesterday I challenged you to come up with at least 10 blog post ideas for your blog. Today we're going to take those ideas and begin to form an editorial calendar around them - specifically we're looking to create an editorial plan for next week on your blog. As I share in this episode this something I resisted doing in the early days of my blogging but having started to do it a few years ago it transformed my blogging on many levels so if you're yet to do it I can highly recommend you give it a go. In Today's Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). 10 Quick Benefits of creating an Editorial Calendar How to Create a Simple Editorial Calendar for Your Blog A basic weekly format for an Editorial Calendar that you might want to try (with a different type of post on each day) Tools you might want to check out to help you create your editorial calendar By the end of this challenge you now should: know what you need to create have some starting points for each post have a plan of when you’ll create each post Tools Mentioned in this Episode and Related Reading Here are the editorial calendar tools I mentioned in today's episode: Coshedule Editorial Calendar Plugin Edit Flow DivvyHQ Google Drive/Documents And here is some further reading on the topic: How to plan an editorial calendar [recording of a webinar] Behind the Scenes: My Low Tech Editorial Schedule 3 Ways Scheduling will Make You a Better Blogger The Complete Guide to Choosing a Content Calendar: Tools, Templates, Tips and More - Buffer Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 12 and day 12 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, we're talking about creating an editorial calendar for your blog. I'm going to share with you why an editorial calendar is useful, some tips on how to set one up, and I'll share some tools that you can use. You can get today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/12 where I will share those links to all those tools mentioned in today's show. Hi, this is Darren from ProBlogger. Welcome to day 12 for 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Yesterday, you came up with 10 blog post ideas. I suspect many of you would have come up with more than 10, which is great because it's going to give you a great head start on today's challenge. Today, we're talking about editorial calendars. Specifically, I want to challenge you to create an editorial calendar for the next week of your blog. Not this week but next week. Some of you have already got an editorial calendar and today is the perfect day to assess it and to do a review of it. If you're like most bloggers who simply sit down to write, come up with an idea, and then hit publish all on the same day, this could be a blog changing exercise for you. I know it was for me. To be honest, this was a bit of a process for me to get my head around. I'm a pretty spontaneous kind of person. For the first few years of my blogging, I pretty much did it as I just described. I sat down, I came up with an idea, I'd write the post, and then publish it almost immediately. But I found a lot of value in switching gears and starting to think ahead. I know that probably is going to relate differently today to each personality type but bear with me and give it a go just for one week, see what happens. Ultimately, today is about setting up a publishing schedule for next week and to determine what you publish on which days. Let me give you a few benefits of an editorial calendar, even a simple one. As I said yesterday, this is going to help take the pressure off idea generation when you sit down to write which, hopefully,