Getting Started With CoSchedule for Bloggers and Individuals
Manage Your Blog & Grow Your Business With CoSchedule
TL;DR
Brainstorm So You Never Run Out of Content Ideas Set a timer for 15 minutes and write down as many blog ideas as you can. Copy To Make Sure All Your Blogs Are Published on Time- Outline post - 14 days before publish
- Write post - 12 days before publish
- Create graphics - 8 days before publish
- SEO optimize - 6 days before publish
- Proofread - 5 days before publish
- Add social campaign - 4 days before publish
- Change status to Scheduled - 3 days before publish
Introduction to Blogging With CoSchedule
You’ve made it. You’re almost a CoSchedule pro. The final piece of the puzzle is tying it all together for a top to bottom blog management process. If your current process is disorganized, messy, and time-consuming, this guide is for you. You’ll learn the perfect strategy and the CoSchedule recommended process for getting your blog in order – from brainstorming to promotion. Let this guide be your blueprint to turning your blog from a haphazard mess, into a streamlined, well-oiled machine. Just imagine…- A month of blog content scheduled in advance.
- Your social channels filled with messages with almost no effort from you.
- Never running out of content ideas.
- AND getting more traffic than ever to your website.
Step 1: Start Brainstorming and Filling Up Your Ideas Bin
One of the best parts about CoSchedule is the ability to build a treasure trove of content ideas, so you’ll never be left scratching your head wondering what to write about. To start, come up with a handful of content themes. Here are some examples for different use cases to help: Food Bloggers:- Super Bowl appetizers
- Christmas cookie recipes from around the world
- Halloween party must haves
- Amazon finds
- Designer dupes
- Gift guides
- Couch to 10k
- Post baby boot camp
- Move of the week
- Must-have baby items
- How-to blogs
- Toddler menus
![Add New Ideas](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/image6-4.png?w=3840&q=75)
Step 2: The Perfect To-Do List to Get Your Blogs Accomplished on Time
Once you’ve moved a blog post from your ideas bin to the calendar, add some tasks to make sure that everything will get accomplished on time. Here’s our recommended blog post task list for you to copy and paste into your calendar.- Outline post - 14 days before publish
- Write post - 12 days before publish
- Create graphics - 8 days before publish
- SEO optimize - 6 days before publish
- Proofread - 5 days before publish
- Add social campaign - 4 days before publish
- Change status to Scheduled - 3 days before publish
TIP: This to-do list gives you a starting point. Feel free to alter based on your unique process.
Here’s what all your tasks will look like once you’ve added them into CoSchedule:
![Tasks in Blog Post](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/image2-7.png?w=3840&q=75)
Step 3: Save Time Writing Blogs Using the Text Editor or Google Doc Integration
Under the attachments area of your blog post in CoSchedule, you’ll see options to add either a text editor or a Google Doc. Both can easily be converted to WordPress, so feel free to choose whichever one you feel most comfortable writing in. After your blog post in completed, click the gear in the corner and choose convert to WordPress.![Convert to WordPress](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/image3-5.png?w=3840&q=75)
![Edit in WordPress](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/image1-7.png?w=3840&q=75)
Step 4: Get More Traffic by Choosing The Perfect Headline
The CoSchedule Headline Analyzer is built right into your calendar, so you can quickly test out different options to ensure you’re getting the most clicks.![Headline Analyzer](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/image7-4.png?w=3840&q=75)
Step 5: Get More Traffic With Social Campaigns and Save Time With Social Templates
Social campaigns in CoSchedule ensure that you’re driving more traffic to your blog by consistently posting social messages over an extended period of time. In an earlier guide, you created the perfect social campaign and turned it into a template to reuse every time you write a blog post. If you missed that chapter, no worries. You can re-read it here. Click on the “Templates” icon and apply one of the social template you created.![Social Templates](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/image4-3.png?w=3840&q=75)
Step 6: Schedule Your Content and Let CoSchedule Do The Rest
The final step in the process is moving your blog post from draft to scheduled. Can the status in the bottom corner.![](https://media.coschedule.com/uploads/2019/10/Scheduled-1.png?w=3840&q=75)