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Top 13 Proven Methods To Increase Your Blogging Productivity
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Proven Methods To Increase Your Blogging Productivity
Most bloggers launch their blogs with a great deal of enthusiasm. A month or two later, there’s a distinct slump in ideas, interest and enthusiasm. All of this tells on the blogger’s productivity. The result? The blog suffers from lack of regular content, regular followup, promotions and networking.
Here are proven methods to increase your blogging productivity and keep it burning steady.
1. Create A Schedule
Based on your annual blogging goals, make a list of your blogging activities for a month. List the activities you want to accomplish each week. Then create a weekly schedule, with a breakup of tasks for each day. Factor an off day or two into your month’s schedule as you need.
2. Refer To Your Day’s Activity List First Thing In The Morning
When you do this, you’ll know exactly how your day is going to pan out. You’ll be able to factor in the breaks you need and get your personal work done when your day’s schedule is well planned.
3. Prioritize Tasks
Go over the day’s list of tasks and prioritize them based on level of importance. Then focus on doing one thing at a time, till that task gets done. This will help steady your focus and the tasks will get done one by one.
4. Do The Easy Stuff When You’re Feeling Dull
Mid-afternoon after lunch is the time most people feel a little sluggish. Assign easy-to-do and enjoyable tasks such as reading RSS feeds and tweets to the sluggish time of your day.
5. Clean Up Your Desk And Desktop
Clean up your desk, keeping only the things you absolutely need close to hand. Do the same with your computer – clean up your files and folders, organize information neatly, organize your bookmarks in folders and so on.
6. Time Scheduled Activities
If you are on a tight schedule, use a timer to time your work. For example, let’s say you need to upload three posts a day on your blog, at specific times. Using a timer will keep you on your toes and maintain your schedule.
7. Remove Distractions
When you need to focus, you need to focus. Shut off all distractions – such as notification pings from emails, tweets and other updates. Keep your phone off, and turn your immediate environment into a quiet zone.
8. Take Breaks Often
The human brain is not built to sustain continuous focus without breaks for an entire day. Schedule breaks every hour. Walk about, call a friend, make some coffee – just don’t sit in front of your computer.
9. Drink Plenty Of Water
Water not only hydrates you, but keeps your brain and body working in top gear. Some people forget to drink water when they work and complain of sluggishness and of pain in their arms and legs. Avoid all that.
10. Cut Back On Your Subscriptions
How many RSS feeds or email newsletters can you read in a day? Plus, how much of all that reading is actually going to benefit you? Cut back on your subscriptions and keep only what you want. Set a time during the day for reading them.
11. Use The Right Productivity Tools
Use Buffer to automate your tweets, Netvibes as your feed reader, InstaPaper to save interesting pages, easyComment to automatically fill comment forms and so on. These tools can really save you a lot of time.
12. Discourage Sensory Overload
Our brains have to operate at different frequencies to make sense of street noise, music, lights and the many noises that surround us. Keep the music off when you work, and shut the window to drown out street noise.
13. Don’t Check Stats Too Often
Some bloggers upload a post, wait an hour and then run to check their traffic statistics. This can swiftly turn into a real OCD, eating into valuable time. Check stats once a day, or at the most, twice.
This article is contributed by GO-Gulf.com, a website development company from Dubai that offers professional web designing and SEO services to online businesses in Middle East.
This post was written by: Franklin Manuel
Franklin Manuel is a professional blogger, web designer and front end web developer. Follow him on Twitter
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