3 Reasons Why You Should PrePost Your Blog Entries

It's the last day of the year and I thought I would get in a few final posts before 2008 starts. This one is about preposting your blog entries.

Reason #1 to prepost your blog entries: If you are in the IT field, you may have heard this one from a project manager in the past. What if you get hit by a bus? What is going to happen to your blog. Will it get stale and cause your PageRank to wither away while you recover in a hospital with no WiFi connection? Preposting is kind of like saving up for a rainy day.

Reason #2 to prepost your blog entries: It gives you time to ponder the post and change your mind about posting it. If you compose a blog entry, then hit {Publish}, that's it. You can't bring it back. Within seconds RSS-readers and Feed Burners around the world have picked it up. I remember someone once saying that once something is on the Internet, it's on there, in some form, forever.

Reason #3 to prepost your blog entries: During times where your ideas start to dry up, if you have some preposted blogs available, you can continue to meet your daily blog entry quota (3 to 5 posts per day and call me in the morning). Preposting also comes in handy when you go on vacation, or you are on a shuttle mission. I think, however, that the shuttle has wifi.

On a side note, as I get ideas, instead of writing them down, then losing the piece of paper, I post a draft entry with a working title and notes within the body of the blog. This way, I never lose the information and I also have extra blog ideas for those times when I can't think of anything to say (keep the jokes to yourself).

I prepost several at a time so I can take a break. Most blog systems allow you to post an entry and set the post date and time. I just set my posts to sometime in the future and they don't show up until that date/time.

The drawback to preposting blog entries is that you may neglect the other aspects of maintaining a highly-ranked up-to-date blog/web site. These aspects are covers in an article on BlogHerald.com.

Related Information:

• http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/12/15/how-to-develop-the-habit-of-writing-posts-in-advance/
• http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/08/02/pre-post-but-only-have-it-show-up-when-its-a-current-entry/
• http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/19/warning-about-pre-posting-blog-content/
• http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com/index.php/2007/12/29/using-wordpresss-timestamp-feature-to-blog-in-advance/trackback/
• http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2006/11/wordpress-tips-and-tricks-post-in-advance/
• http://www.johntp.com/2007/12/19/write-posts-in-advance/