Lesson 2: Create a Management System for Your Blog Posts

When you first begin as a niche blogger, it's straightforward to keep track of and manage your content. You can easily access your dashboard and see an overview of your published posts, including the topics and when they were published.

However, there will come a time when your blog posts become too numerous to manage, and you'll struggle to remember what you've posted in the past. To help improve the overall ranking of your blog and individual posts, you must have this information readily available.

While it may seem tedious at first, once completed, you can add each new blog post to the file. If you don't have the time to do this yourself, create a template for the type of information you want to track and give instructions (along with the template) to a virtual assistant to create a database for you. This will assist you in your repair efforts to renovate and enhance your blog rankings.

Having a database allows you to quickly locate your posts whenever you need to update them. It also allows you to track when you last refreshed a blog post, so you know when it's due for an update.

In your file management system, you should include several pieces of information, and using a spreadsheet that you can sort and update with ease may be useful. Some essential items to include are:

• The blog post title
• The URL
• The date of original publication
• The date you last updated the post
• The categories
• The keyword tags
• Links included in the post
• SERP rankings at last check
• Notes about the content topic

Some people may also include a list of subheadings, periodic traffic statistics, social sharing metrics, blog comments, and other content engagement metrics – it's up to you.

If you fail to create a file management system, you'll most likely be taking a hit-or-miss approach, and you won't be very strategic in updating and enhancing your content.