Blog Day Planner

Did you notice the "undefined" tabs at the top of each one of my posts? I installed a new theme almost three months ago but I have yet to figure out how to change that "undefined" status so the date and time of posts will show again. I've just been really busy these past few months which kept me from prioritizing my blog tasks so I could focus on those little things to do. Now that was originally part of my plan with this blog. I intended to use it for a focus site.

Watch me strive to get back to the origins on Blog Day Planner and other sites as well. You'll know I succeeded when the undefined tabs have something else to say.



The Midnight Writer

The daffodils are in bloom so that has got to be a sure sign that spring is finally enduring. Yeah! I’m so relieved to be finished with all those blizzards and hail storms but I’m not sure if the high winds are finished for this season. I know the rain has just begun, and in some parts of the country, that is a good thing because certain states really need the water levels to rise.

Either way, I’m ready to start this week off running like the title of this post says. There is a lot of catch up on my to do list. So swing the flags and signal the take off, here I go. Are you ready to play catch up on all those belated spring tasks that you put off?

My goal for this week first and foremost is to achieve the number of posts per blog for all my major blogs, domain blogs and Entrecard listed blogs. That is a total of 12 blogs so let’s do the run down on totals then I can zero in on the particulars.

The main blogs are Mountain Spirit Productions, The Midnight Writer, Blog Day Planner, The Midnight Writers Journal, The Midnight Writer’s Freelance Quest, The Midnight Writers Cafe, The Midnight Writers Secret Portal, Keep It Simple, The Making of a Walking, One Tin Soldier, and Midnight Revelry. Now that’s quite a line up.

Do you have more than one blog? Are you ready to set weekly goals for number of posts to write per week?

This is the first step in organizing your work week if you are a freelance writer to help set the intention and focus for your work week. It is so easy to let it get away from you, I know. There are more tasks than planning and writing involved in the freelance blogging business, as you probably know. I am involved in social networking, ghost blogging, writing on client’s blogs and writing content so I have more than my blogs to schedule in to the day planner. However, this area is the crux of my personal network so I need to build it.

Are you a blogger for fun or profit? Do you maintain more than one blog? Would you share some of your ideas on blog management and advertising and how you come up with ideas for your posts? I would love to have some guest writers on here to share with my readers. If you are interested, just email themidnightwriter1@gmail.com

and I’ll send you an invitation.

In the interest of sticking to my motto “Keep It Simple”, I’ll finish by listing the weekly line up for posts. At the end of the week, I’ll do my best to come back and review how you and I did. You will have to send me your comments in order to participate in this one.

Mountain Spirit Productions- it’s the domain blog and host for all of our network for the Midnight Writer- goal is 5 posts this week. I’m basing the 5 posts on a Monday through Friday schedule.

The Midnight Writer org – a main domain blog. Goal 5 posts.

Blog Day Planner – the second main domain blog. Goal 5.

The Midnight Writer’s Journal – this one is way behind. 5 posts with two reviews on the Midnight Special Spotlight.

The Midnight Writer’s Freelance Quest- 5 posts

The Midnight Writer’s Cafe - my Smorty blog- aiming for page rank and pages cached – 7 posts

Keep It Simple – 3 posts with follow up on previous posts.

Midnight Revelry- 3 posts and a review on Blog Day Planner. Buy the domain this week by Friday.

The Midnight Writer’s Secret Portal – 3 posts with a review on Blog Day Planner.

The Midnight Writers Blogs- 10 posts to update reviews and progress reports on all blogs and to publish news on our network and social networking. Two posts about affiliate marketing and a sponsor.

One Tin Soldier – 5 posts with rainbow gathering updates and follow up on some of our story lines.

If you are following any of these blogs on Entrecard, you will be able to track the progress because you’ll notice the new posts every day when you click on the widget. That should make you smile. I know I click on blogs hoping to see something new.

This brings the total to 59 posts and that is a lot of work.

As noted in my focus sheet for November, I/you need to increase blog performance. This is an intentional act, not a passive one as I have learned in November. I allowed other events to hinder this blog’s progress. Now that is not a failure, rather it is a learning point.

Did you meet your daily or weekly blog posting goals?

What are your plans for this month?

Post your feedback right here, on Blog Day Planner, and please remember to include a link back to one of your blogs or articles or one of your websites.

What should I do this month?

Reset the intention to increase blog performance.

What does that mean exactly, when I say “increase blog performance”?

Each time I use the internet to work on blogging or freelance writing or internet marketing, I am "getting in the groove" of using this new focus tool, the Blog Day Planner.

• List 20 blog url's on google to have cache updated.



• Test these 20 url's to view cache status in the follow up to this post.



• Enter five blog url's on a second search engine, such as "yahoo."

Special note from google:

When entering url on google's enter url page, a paragraph explaining the process appears as quoted below on their website:

"Please note: Only the top-level page from a host is necessary; you do not need to submit each individual page. Our crawler, Googlebot, will be able to find the rest. Google updates its index on a regular basis, so updated or outdated link submissions are not necessary. Dead links will 'fade out' of our index on our next crawl when we update our entire index. "

2. Change the url listing for The Midnight Writer blog on all blogs and websites, as well as pay to blog companies like Social Spark, Smorty, and Pay Per Post. Yesterday I purchased the domain name, so the url has changed. Blogspot will forward visitors to the previous http://themidnightwriter1.blogspot.com/ to the new domain name http://www.themidnightwriter.org/

That is quite an assignment, so I may not complete much else today. The main goal is to update links, increase search engine rankings, write and get freelance writing assignments!

Written by The Midnight Writer

How does a freelance writer or blogger organize their time?

With so many tasks required in the freelance writing /blogging business, it is imperative to make those lists. The next step in that goal setting focus is to prioritize that list. Decide what is most important to build a foundation for a successful business.

You heard me right.

Freelance writing and blogging is a Business.

It is imperative to treat it in a professional manner.

One Key Tip is to secure a website with a unique domain name to your freelance writing/blogging identity.

There are many aspects to building an online presence, which is also your unique identity in the vast freelance sea. "I call it creating a persona." My personal "persona" is The Midnight Writer.

On today's list, I chose updating the website which is the "calling card"
that all prospective clients will see when you advertise for freelance work.

1. Update and fine tune the cover page to The Midnight Writer's (your persona) website.
2. Edit the index page to The Midnight Writer's website. Add a link to my blogs.
3. Change the url's on all blogs to point to the new cover page.
4. Create a profile and a portfolio page on website.