So when? Ah... I've missed the first question ;) I wanna ask how do you send out or publish your posts on your blog? I know... You just push the publish button and it goes public. I mean, how would you decide which time is best for your post to get published. Hmm... You might be writing your posts and publish it rightaway when you are done with all sorts of editings. Or you might complete your posts and publish when it's the day or time to pubish. Else, probably you may follow either of ways depending on the content you gonna publish. Now can you tell me your secret?
When to Publish?
I've been hanging around with blogging friends online for quite time and though I didn't spend 10 years in blogging or went to see when they publish posts, I have made some observations.
● Some bloggers just write at their will and publish the post rightaway.
● There are bloggers who stick to a schedule on their blog and they publish their posts when the time is ready.
● Another group of bloggers follow a schedule, but if they found a timely topic which can grab more attention of the audience, they publish them soon after finalization.
If you think you haven't got my attention and included in my observasions, I'd like to welcome you to share how you manage and publish your posts in the comment area. Now, let me narrow this topic now. It's your blog and you decide how you gonna write your posts and when to publish. I have an advice? Not yet. But if you are not a person that publish your posts rightaway after writing, then I have something for you. Oops... You don't wanna leave peeps. If you are a person publish your posts right after writing, then you need to follow me and see how this gonna help you too ;)
Sometimes your posts need to be published when the time is ready as it has a time sensitive content or you need to think how to make use of your time effectively with blogging without being stuck with what you have been doing all the time. Can you come out of your old habits? For example, imagine you gonna celebrate the birthday of your puppy on next Sunday and organize a giveaway for your readers on the same day. So you need your post to be published on the exact date without any error. Would you count the dates, hours, minutes and seconds and be there when it's time to push the button? I know you are dedicated. But let's explore some more.
○ If you are a person who write a lot when you have more free time and publish posts rightaway, then how about spreading those posts throughout the week with intervals in between, instead of posting when you can and leave readers empty handed when you can't afford to write? I know, it's your choice. But think for a momento :)
○ If you are already following a schedule on your blog, then what if you can schedule your written posts to go out when the time is ready without waiting for the right time to push the button? Don't you feel you are taking more effort to publish than write your content? Just think.
Here's something I wanna share with you. As I write my blog posts in advance most of the time, I wanted to publish a specific post on a specific day. You can imagine how curious I would be. But when the time is ready, my Internet connection was acting weird and couldn't be online for few hours. I missed it, though I well planned and everything is ready to go. You need to think about risk assessment sometimes. Now take few moments to think about how you would react for such a situation. It's nothing to do with either you are a well organized blogger or it never happened before. My question is, what if it happens? Do you have a second plan?
No matter what type of blogger you are and how you decide when to publish your posts. If you are on Blogger, you are safe as the Schedule feature is there for you :) Yeah, you can schedule your posts when it needs to get published and it will be posted automatically without waiting for you to be presented to push the Publish button. I was always looking at the clock and waiting to push the button and I didn't know how much time I'm wasting with the excitement of waiting for right moment. It may be alright for once or twice. But since I got to know about the capability of scheduling posts, it was taking care of publishing and I can say it's busy enough with scheduled posts right now. Even this post is on the schedule.
It doesn't matter if you are not on the Blogger platform. But think and research how you can make use of scheduling on your blogging platform too. That will save you and might redefine your blogging experience.
There's nothing you need to learn about enabling schedule feature on Blogger. It's all about setting exact date and time, and the rest is assured even you can't reach your computer or mobile device to access Blogger dashboard. Obviously it's a time saver. Don't you think? :) All you need is to complete your post and schedule it. Let's to learn about scheduling feature and get ready to plan your next vacation without worrying about being available to push the publish button. You are on the schedule ;)
If you think you haven't got my attention and included in my observasions, I'd like to welcome you to share how you manage and publish your posts in the comment area. Now, let me narrow this topic now. It's your blog and you decide how you gonna write your posts and when to publish. I have an advice? Not yet. But if you are not a person that publish your posts rightaway after writing, then I have something for you. Oops... You don't wanna leave peeps. If you are a person publish your posts right after writing, then you need to follow me and see how this gonna help you too ;)
Publishing Time Matters
Sometimes your posts need to be published when the time is ready as it has a time sensitive content or you need to think how to make use of your time effectively with blogging without being stuck with what you have been doing all the time. Can you come out of your old habits? For example, imagine you gonna celebrate the birthday of your puppy on next Sunday and organize a giveaway for your readers on the same day. So you need your post to be published on the exact date without any error. Would you count the dates, hours, minutes and seconds and be there when it's time to push the button? I know you are dedicated. But let's explore some more.
○ If you are a person who write a lot when you have more free time and publish posts rightaway, then how about spreading those posts throughout the week with intervals in between, instead of posting when you can and leave readers empty handed when you can't afford to write? I know, it's your choice. But think for a momento :)
○ If you are already following a schedule on your blog, then what if you can schedule your written posts to go out when the time is ready without waiting for the right time to push the button? Don't you feel you are taking more effort to publish than write your content? Just think.
Here's something I wanna share with you. As I write my blog posts in advance most of the time, I wanted to publish a specific post on a specific day. You can imagine how curious I would be. But when the time is ready, my Internet connection was acting weird and couldn't be online for few hours. I missed it, though I well planned and everything is ready to go. You need to think about risk assessment sometimes. Now take few moments to think about how you would react for such a situation. It's nothing to do with either you are a well organized blogger or it never happened before. My question is, what if it happens? Do you have a second plan?
You are Safe on Blogger
No matter what type of blogger you are and how you decide when to publish your posts. If you are on Blogger, you are safe as the Schedule feature is there for you :) Yeah, you can schedule your posts when it needs to get published and it will be posted automatically without waiting for you to be presented to push the Publish button. I was always looking at the clock and waiting to push the button and I didn't know how much time I'm wasting with the excitement of waiting for right moment. It may be alright for once or twice. But since I got to know about the capability of scheduling posts, it was taking care of publishing and I can say it's busy enough with scheduled posts right now. Even this post is on the schedule.
It doesn't matter if you are not on the Blogger platform. But think and research how you can make use of scheduling on your blogging platform too. That will save you and might redefine your blogging experience.
Ready to Go?
There's nothing you need to learn about enabling schedule feature on Blogger. It's all about setting exact date and time, and the rest is assured even you can't reach your computer or mobile device to access Blogger dashboard. Obviously it's a time saver. Don't you think? :) All you need is to complete your post and schedule it. Let's to learn about scheduling feature and get ready to plan your next vacation without worrying about being available to push the publish button. You are on the schedule ;)
Steps:
1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on your Blog Title.
3. If you are planning to schedule a new post, start writing your post by clicking New Post button. Else if you already have a post in draft and wanna schedule it, then navigate to Posts tab on left and click Edit link correspond to your draft post.
4. Now find Post settings at right sidebar and click on Schedule setting.
5. Switch to Set date and time option from Automatic option and set the date and time for your post to be published.
6. Now click Done button to confirm.
7. Click Publish button above the Post Editor like when you publish a post and it will be scheduled according to your settings instead of publishing rightaway.
8. Now you can see your post with Scheduled status at the Posts tab with count instead of in the Draft tabs.
More Information:
* In case, if you wanna change the scheduled date and time, then click Edit link correspond to scheduled post at Scheduled pane and click Publish or Schedule button after changing the date and time at Post Settings.
* If you want your scheduled post to get unscheduled, click Edit link corresponds to your post at Scheduled tab and click on Revert to Draft button.
Enjoy :-)
