Blogging Challenge – Publishing those pesky draft posts

If you’re blogging with Wordpress, chances are you have a few “Draft” posts kicking around. As I’m writing this, I have 17 sitting in my Drafts folder. That is 17 too many.

I know some bloggers who have hundreds! What a waste of time, creativity, and energy.

My blogging challenge for this week is to clean that puppy out.

I started this challenge on a poopy day (Thursday) so it will end next Thursday. Next time I’ll try to start a challenge on an actual Monday.

If you have over 100 draft posts, it may be a bit unrealistic to get them all published in one week, but there are a few things you can do to help.

• Group relevant posts together and condense them into one post or a series of posts. This would be a great way to increase RSS subscribers – encourage them to sign up for your feed so they don’t miss future parts of the series.
• Outsource the bigger posts that require research to finish. If you have a virtual assistant or even a family member who can help out, take advantage of it. If you don’t have the money to pay for it, try bartering services.
• Be ruthless – delete posts that are full of fluff and information that isn’t beneficial or useful for your readers.

How about you? How many draft posts do you have sitting in Wordpress? Are you up for the challenge?

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