That’s a sure thing, the week end is definitely the favorite time of the week for many people. But how can you use efficiently the spare time you have on week ends to enhance your blog? In this article, I’m going to show you how I use my week end time and give you some tips.
Take the time to relax
[tweet]Althought this post is about things to do to enhance your blog, taking the time to relax is something essential if you want to make a good job on your blog.
When you have too much work to do, it can be very tempting to do it on a “quick and dirty” way, which is never good. If you take the necessary time to relax and be with your family, you’ll build forces for a better blogging all along the week.
Make your schedule for the week
Being organized is very good for efficient blogging. Each week end, I take an average 30 minutes to think about what posts I should write and what improvements I could make to my blogs during the week.
I use a Moleskine notebook to write my ideas, organize my schedule and remeber what I have to do. It is a real life saver for a busy person like me, who own more than 10 blogs!
Upgrade WordPress
WordPress upgrades are boring, but necessary to make sure your blog is secure. I personally like to upgrade WordPress as well as the plugins I use on week ends, to make sure I’ll have the required time to repair my blog if a problem happens.
WordPress upgrades problems are quite rare, but that doesn’t mean they can’t happen. And if it happen, you’ll be happy to be able to repair your blog right now!
Perform maintenance
You probably have noticied that on week ends, your blog is getting less visitors than during the week. This means week ends are the best time to change your WordPress theme or implement design changes.
Remember to use the maintenance mode WordPress plugin if you want to prevent visitors accessing your blog while performing maintenance.
Work on the week posts
By definition, saturdays and sundays are the days of the week where you have spare time. In order to have less work to do on the other week days, what about starting to work on your scheduled blog posts?
Especially in the case of very long and complex articles, you’ll be very happy to have some advance.
Guest blog
I have already demonstrated how guest blogging is good for you and your blog. So what about using some of your week end spare time to give it a try? You’ll probably be very happy with it!
Read other blogs
Reading other blogs is one of the best – if not the best – way to stay tuned with what’s hot in the blogging world theses days.
When you’re a blogger yourself, it can be hard to find the time to read 15 or 20 blogs on a daily basis. But on week ends, you can easily take the time to read your favorite blogs and stay tuned with the latest news and trends.