A daily blog!! Yes, am trying to push myself for it.
Challenging!! Indeed it is, I have tried doing daily blog with the AToZChallenge earlier, but couldn’t really go past the 4th day. This time around, it was Stanford Smith who has set out and asked subscribers on his Facebook Group to be part of the 30 Day 30 Blog challenge.And I have just jumped in.
Am sure nothing can be as challenging as writing a daily blog and I look forward to learn from the past mistakes. Here are some of the strategies I am going to adopt.
5 Steps to Writing A Daily Blog
1. Editorial Calendar
I believe that when you set out to write a daily blog, it is essential that every day you’re out researching on topics that you intend to write on. An editorial calendar is a pretty good tool to have for every blogger worth their salt. Personally, it has helped me channelize thoughts, research on the subject and put my target keywords in place.
So, Editorial Calendar is the first place I will start with.
2. Regimen
I usually write about 2-3 posts a week and have not followed a particular regimen so far. I have often relied on the excuse of a day job to delay my writing. With this challenge, I do intend to fix that part and am picking up few tips from Stanford Smith’s earlier post ‘How to Publish Daily when you have a 9-5 Job‘
3. Extensive Reading
One thing that I believe is, you can’t write well unless you read well. Reading articles written by others can often lift your own thinking process leading to creation of new topics. On many occasions, I have found topics like the one on Klout coming out of comments on some other blog. Twitter List and Feedly are going to keep me company as I seek out topics for reading.
4. Writing to the expertise
Something that I learnt very early in my blogging days is, never write on anything that you cannot talk on. A daily blog will fall apart if you went away from the core of your and your blog’s expertise. Bad content will drive away the readers and when you’re not an expert, it does show up.
5. Blogging Ahead
The biggest learning that came out of the AToZChallenge was – I was used to writing an article and publishing the same day. So when a day came that I was busy and couldn’t do a daily blog and that eventually led me to a point that I was lagging behind the schedule. This time around, I might look to write early on and probably have couple of articles scheduled so that even on an off day, I would still have something for my readers.
So there they are!!
What you can do?
1. Wish me luck 🙂
2. Share your daily blog strategy.
