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Successful blogs, by and large, have multiple posts each and every day, or almost. Which is just fine until you need to go out of town for a business conference or simply want a vacation. Assuming your blog client allows it, the secret to real time off is to drip future posts. Here’s what I actually do:
- Open a word file and start listing ideas with no attention paid to spelling, grammar, just enough info so I’ll know what I intended. For blog writing the idea may just be a link I want to follow-up on.
- When I complete the post, I use Word’s format/font/strike through. This let’s me know I’ve written it, but I can still read the entry. Often I find I can write more than one entry on a single idea.
- Ask for guest posts from my audience to be sent to be via email. Post ‘em with a future date and let the contributor know when it will show up, with thanks.
- Schedule writing a future blog on my calendar daily until I get enough posts, then actually write the future posts.
I’m actually in the process of doing this now; I’ll be gone for about 8 days this month and so far I’ve got some 16 future posts already written.
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Definitely some good tips! Keep up the good work!
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Good advice. I was lucky this year, my holidays were before I actually launched my blog.
I’ll make sure to be as prepared as you suggest next time I’m away.
Thanks,
Michael
Hey, I learned this when I didn’t do it well last year… tried to cram it all in a few days… it takes some lead time… we live and learn.
Great tips Anne. I wish I had read them before I recently went on vacation. I actually tried to post ahead of time but was unable to get a head. I also tried to set up guest posts but didn’t start requesting guest posts in time for me to get it all set up before I left town. Anyway, I am sure my experience will a least offer me a “what not to do with your blog’ post ;) .
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Thanks… and Scot, you’re way more organized than I am most of the time ;)
This is the only way to fly. Just as writing every day is important to a blog (and writing), so is completely getting away from the daily grind of writing (and other things) so as to restore ourselves.
I take the “writing ahead” idea one step further; I write most of my posts for the week ahead of time working of a list similar to the Word list from Anne.
This allows my blogs to have consistent articles being posted and I can spend my time during the week checking out cool sites like this one and blogging on stuff that I find.
Have a nice time off, Anne. :)
Great tips, Anne. I lined up guest posters for one of my blogs while on vacation and used the future posting feature to post every two days on my other blog. It worked like a charm.
These are great tips! I recently went on vacation and was able to post on my personal blogs for a few days. In the end, however, I had to just let the blog sit for a few days. Within two days my blog traffic dropped considerably.