How To Create An Editorial Calendar For Your Blog


An editorial calendar is a great way to stimulate your creativity and build a steady stream of traffic to your blog or network of blogs throughout the year. If you do blog posts in advance of popular upcoming events/holidays you can outrank and crush your competition.

There are certain events that take place every year like clockwork. Examples include gift ideas for Christmas, Father's Day or graduation, where to watch fireworks on the 4th of July, Halloween costume ideas for the year, etc.

Here are a few of the best resources to help you build an editorial calendar to keep you on track year after year.



Pattern Your Audience: How Editorial Calendars Can Increase Your Readership





Increase your readership with these helpful editorial calendar hints. - Read More...


Develop an Editorial Calendar for Your Blog [Day 12 - 31DBBB]





Shows how Darren Rowse of Problogger develops a weekly editorial calendar. - Read More...


Keep It Together: Use an Editorial Calendar | BlogHer





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Blog a lot? Build an editorial calendar. » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - Freelance Writing Collaborative Blogging Project by Rebecca Laffar-Smith





Tips and benefits on building an editorial calendar. Schedule ideas for your blog and remove the worry about what you're going to write about. - Read More...


How To Plan A Month’s Worth Of Posts In 30 Minutes Flat | Confident Writing





Spend 30 minutes and plan out a month's worth of blog posts. There's no telling how much time and frustration this will save you! - Read More...


Why You Need An Editorial Calendar For Your Blog





Why should you create an editorial calendar? Increase your blog post quality and quantity, get more advertisers, subscribers and destroy writer's block. - Read More...


Writing for DOLLARS! Articles DB





Create Your Own Editorial Calendar from Writing for Dollars gives ideas from each month.. January - December. Includes holidays and popular seasonal events, etc. - Read More...


How to Create an Editorial Calendar for Your Blog | The Success Center





How to Create an Editorial Calendar for Your Blog includes a 17 minute tutorial video. - Read More...


Build Your Blog’s Traffic with an Editorial Calendar - Andy Wibbels





Andy Wibbels explains how to build your blog's traffic with an editorial calendar and includes a transcript and spreadsheet. - Read More...


Editorial Calendars and Professional Blogging





How to use editorial calendars to plan feature stories for your blog. Describes benefits, blogging theme ideas and resources. - Read More...


Micro Persuasion: Bringing Editorial Calendars Into the Social Sphere





Steve Rubel talks about editorial calendars and provides links to the edcals of various glossy magazines. - Read More...


YouTube - 5 Tips for a Successful Business Blog (4 of 8)





Denise Wakeman explains the importance of an editorial calendar for your blog.
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