PB101: How to Be More Consistent with Your Blogging

Note: this episode is available to listen to in the player above, on iTunes and Stitcher. Tips and Resources to Generate Consistent Content for Your Blog Today I’m talking about being more consistent with your blogging. This topic originated from a question by Jason Stevens from Digital Tools of the Trade.  Jason wants to know how to maintain consistency when blogging? This is an important question, because consistency matters when creating content for a blog or any medium. There are so many blogs out there that were started with energy, passion and enthusiasm for a topic. Eventually, the enthusiasm fades and those blogs are neglected or even dead. Today we are going to discuss tips and resources that will prevent your blog from ending up in the blogging graveyard. Also, don’t forget to check out our new resource of 180 Blog Post Ideas. This will give you six months worth of idea prompts and blog post ideas, and that’s if you blog daily. For most people, 180 prompts will last a year or more. Today’s Tips for Being More Consistent With Your Blogging Don’t bite off more than you can chew, or commit to a rate of publishing that is beyond what you can actually do Generate Ideas for Content Ahead of Time (Episode 84 and 180 Blog Post Ideas) Block out time to create get a daily or regular writing rhythm (Episode 86) Block out time to polish and complete your work (Episode 87) Consider creating “easy posts” some posts take less time than others Reader Discussions - ask a question Polls - take a reader poll Challenge your readers to do something Link post - Links on a theme Best of archived posts - link post on content you have written Embedded content post - embed content and add thoughts (Episode 97) Guests posts and interviews - THE KEY is to keep these posts relevant Weekly Rhythm: Monday - Guest post Tuesday - Reader discussion Wednesday - Longer thoughtful post Thursday - Video of the week Friday - Longer thoughtful post Saturday - Link roundup post Sunday - Challenge post or reader homework Use a tool like Coschedule or others to come up with an editorial calendar - be able to visualize ahead of time Write out of relationships - create your content for real people - get to know your readers Batch write - getting ahead of writing relieves the pressure Be spontaneous - some of the best writing occurs when an idea pops in your head Create content that is meaningful - don’t lose sight of what your blog is about Understand what kind of content drives you - not just topic, but format and medium For me, podcasting has been a huge game changer Links and Resources for Being More Consistent With Your Blogging 180 Blog Post Ideas Episode 84 How to Come Up With Fresh Ideas to Write About On Your Blog Episode 56 How to Get into the Flow of Creating Great Content for Your Blog Episode 87 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Hitting Publish On Your Next Blog Post Episode 97 How To Lift the Quality of Your Blog Posts with Embeddable Content CoSchedule Blab Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Darren: Hey and welcome to episode 101 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name’s Darren Rowse, and I am the blogger behind problogger.com, a resource to help bloggers and other content creators to monetize their blogs, to monetize their podcast, to monetize the content that they create. Today, I want to talk to you about being more consistent with your content creation, particularly talking about blogging. But a lot of what I’m talking about today can be applied to other types of content as well. You can find today’s show notes and listen to this particular episode if you so choose at problogger.com/podcast/101. You’ll also find there some details of our brand new resource that we’ve ju...