Evaluate for ReQueue (30 days after Publish).

Google+ Community share (3 days after Publish).

Finish and upload images (1 day before Publish).

Move Draft to WordPress (3 days before Publish).

2 click-to-tweet quotes (powered by Social Warfare).

2 internal links (for SEO and user experience).2 external links (to relevant authoritative articles).Headline Score Green (using the Headline Analyzer).My primary task template includes what things need to be in the blog post, and what timeline they all need to be done in. Instead of having to reference my “Blog Post Checklist” (coming soon) and “wing it” when it comes to executing the post in time, I have just set up a task template. Task templates make my editorial process so much smoother.

Right now, I’m mostly just using the Blog Post, Newsletter, and Course types for my personal blog as well as the occasional Social Campaign for things that I want to promote using CoSchedule’s Social Templates (more on this later). They currently have 20 different content types you can add to your calendar. Thankfully, CoSchedule allows you to plan them all. Things such as:Īnd there are many more types of “content” you could be publishing as a blogger. Smart bloggers know that they’re not just publishing blog posts–there’s a lot more that goes into running a successful blog. Wow, now doesn’t that look super organized?! More Than Just Blog Posts This way, when I look at my calendar, I can instantly know which categories are getting the most attention and make sure I’m hitting all categories as frequently as I want. What I’ve done is assign each blog post category a color. If I’ve got a great idea, I add it to the calendar immediately and either put it right on the calendar, or drop it in my content drawer.Īnother little gem is the ability to color coordinate your posts. This is now how I go about saving ideas for blog posts. If you are creating a blog post, it actually creates the WordPress draft as well. You can also create new content from anywhere on the calendar. As long as you’ve already connected your WordPress site, these drafts will be updated with the date and time that you’ve set in CoSchedule. With the drag/drop interface, you can take unscheduled drafts from your content drawer and drop them onto your calendar when you want to publish them. It gives you a full-screen layout of your month (or as many weeks as you want to show at a time). If you’re the same way, you’ll love CoSchedule’s visual calendar interface. When it comes to planning things out, I need to physically see it. Visual Calendarįirst of all, I’m a highly visual person.

In this post, I’m going to dive deep into all the features that make it an essential part of my blogging process and why you should seriously give it a look. I’m convinced that there is no better planning, coordinating, and executing tool out there for bloggers. The ideal blog planning tool needed to:Īfter taking a look at several solutions out there, I discovered CoSchedule.ĬoSchedule’s marketing calendar gave me everything I was looking for and so much more. Knowing that I am a visual person, I knew I needed something to help me with planning and executing my blog strategy. I wanted to get serious about being both consistent and strategic. In 2015 I decided that I wanted to take my blogging to the next level. Okay, it’s time to take this blogging thing to the next level. Maybe you even start gaining some real traction, and you think to yourself: The time you put into it, the passion that drives it, and the vulnerability of creating something and sharing it with the world are all huge investments.Īfter a while, you start to get into a rhythm. Your blog, in and of itself, is a major investment. For planning and organizing your blog editorial calendar, CoSchedule might just be your new best friend.

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