It wasn’t until I discovered batching that my life became easier. Did you know that you can batch just about anything? Yes! Here we will talk about how you can batch your blog posts to save you time and energy. If there was a simplified way of being more resourceful, batching is it. I am going to share with you how to batch your blog post like a pro.
What Is Batching
Let’s take a look at what batching is. Batching is when you set aside a specific amount of time to complete a specific process. By taking the time to concentrate on a specific process, you’re able to devote your time to that process without becoming overwhelmed.
When it comes to batching your blog post, creating a system that works for you is important. It wasn’t until I discovered the benefits of batching that my life was made easier. Being able to batch your blog post will allow you not to become overwhelmed but to focus on writing a few blog posts at one time. Multitasking is a skill that isn’t applied to blogging because you could waste time, overloaded, and never complete your task.
Benefits Of Batching
Batching takes a little bit of time but its worth it for these reasons:
#1 It saves you more time
#2 Your brain isn’t fried from being overworked
#3 You’re able to meet your publishing or schedule date
Even though things could get a little hectic in the blogging world, batching allows you to grab that content that you created earlier in the month and load it to your website when you are limited on time. Let’s get into the steps that you need to start the batching process.
Brain Dump
Suppose you have ideas but unsure of what you want to write about-its time to brain dump. Brain dumping allows you to get those ideas you have in your brain on paper to see visually. During this stage, it doesn’t matter what those ideas are, how big or small, write them down! You want those ideas that are currently on your mind off so that you can make room for new ideas when the time comes.
Create Your Blog Post Titles
Once you have completed your brain dump, it’s time to create a few blog post titles. At the beginning of every month, I write down all the blog post topics that I would like to chat about for the month. It doesn’t matter if I get the chance to write each blog post; my goal is to have a direction for creating the blog posts.
I like to narrow my topics into each niche that my blog represents- natural hair, beauty & style, lifestyle, and blogging tips. I write at least 5 titles for each niche for the entire month. That’s at least 20-25 blog post title ideas! You may find it difficult to come up with topic title ideas, but trust me, as time goes on, you’ll get better.
Once I am done with title ideas, I head over to Pinterest to research the topics I wrote down. Pinterest is a great search engine that I have been using for years, even before becoming a blogger. When searching Pinterest, you’re looking for creative ways to adjust your blog titles by what others are writing about on the topic. The goal isn’t about mimicking their titles; it’s about how creative you can get with yours.
Researching Your Blog Content
After creating your blog post title, it’s time to choose a few topics to research. Researching topics helps you to break your blog post down into segments. For example, in this blog post, my strategy was to include vital information that I could breakdown that would help the reader- when it comes to batching.
Researching allows you to find supporting articles that can help you with your blog post. Once you’re done researching, it’s time to outline your post. Outlining your blog post helps you to stay on topic with that particular segment of the post. You don’t want to jump around too much, or you will lose or even confuse your reader.
A Batching Process To Follow
Writing: You’ve done your brain dump, created your blog topics, researched your blog content, and now it is time to start writing. Here is where you will write 3 or 4 blog posts in one sitting. You can either physically write the blog posts out on paper or write them on your website in the editing format. Don’t worry about grammar and spell checks at this point; you will work on that in the editing phase. Depending on how many blog posts you wrote, you might want to take a break in between writing if needed. You would want to spend the bulk of your time on this phase with no interruptions. My advice is to give yourself 2 hours or so.
Graphics: You will need graphics for your blog posts. Choose another day to choose your graphics for your blog posts that you have written. This process should take a couple of hours. Canva is where I create all my graphics for my blog post, Pinterest, and even Instagram. Since this process takes less time, you should be able to create the images while watching tv. Another option if you don’t want to create any graphics, you can use free stock images. I have been using Unsplash for quite a while, and I love it.
Editing, SEO, Readability: After adding all graphics, it’s a good idea to complete a grammar, SEO, and readability check. I use Grammarly for grammar and spell-check. I’ve been using this since the beginning of my blogging journey. Yoast is a WordPress plugin that has helped tremendously when it comes to checking for SEO and readability. This step shouldn’t take you a lot of time, but it’s an important step to ensure that your blog post is readable and SEO friendly.
Scheduling: Now, it is time to schedule your blog posts! If you’re using WordPress, you can schedule your blog posts within the website throughout the month.
Promoting: Once you have scheduled your blog posts, it’s time to tell the world. If you’re on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, or Twitter, you can use several tools like Later or Tailwind to schedule and promote your blog posts.
And there you have it my fabulous friends! How to batch your blog posts like a pro.
Check out my recent blog post: How I schedule my Instagram Posts Using Later
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