These are weekly tasks:
1) Add posts to your website
If you can, add a post to your website every week, and if possible, post more than once a week. I blog every Wednesday and every Sunday. If you set up such a schedule, you will be pleased with how well it keeps you on track.
Once your blog is written, of course you need to put it on WordPress and do all the necessary actions that make it ready to publish. This includes finding and sizing images and supplying all the meta information.
2) Proofread
One of the vital tasks you must do to any new blog is to proofread carefully. Read it through once yourself to catch errors. Then do a grammar check and make necessary corrections.
3) Publish
Once you have published, if you have an autoresponder and an email list, send the post out to all your subscribers.
4) Check analytics
Here is another weekly task. Check Google analytics to monitor the performance of your posts.
5) Do a site map
Once you have published your post, you can go to Google Analytics and do a URL inspection. Once you've placed the URL for inspection, click the box that says "request indexing."
Go to your website dashboard and request a sitemap. I use AIO SEO, and the sitemap selection is included there.
6) Run ads
If you wish to place an ad in Social Media, now is the time to do it.
7) Write a blog for WA
I believe it's good to plan to do a WA blog every couple of weeks. In this way, you stay active in the community and provide material that can have some very helpful comments.
8) Check for broken links (weekly or monthly)
I do my broken link check weekly, just to keep down the number of links needing repair.
Trish turned me on to a plugin that I use to find broken links. It's called "broken link checker." It will give you a list of all your broken links and an error message that describes the problem.
It will tell you where the error is located, so you can look it up on the website if you need to.
I have many Amazon links. They have a great tool for checking their broken links. You will find it listed under "tools" on your site stripe page.
Between these two tools, I've found the task of finding and repairing broken links much simpler.
9) Find and take pictures
If you use many of your own photos on your site, allow yourself a tract of time to take more. Try to set a time each week for a photo shoot.
An excellent idea and a very useful cribsheet!
I'm not sure what the scope of webmaster covers in your mind...
does it include capturing writing ideas through to publishing (and all steps in between)? If it does...
I have a system within which I capture ideas, which can come up at any time... I review them weekly, discard the rubbish, otherwise keep them and schedule for research and development.
:-)
Richard
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yesterday I spent nearly 3 hours rectifying 22 broken links (some were 2 months old, one was from a post I had literally published the day before)
I will not be leaving it so long this time. I do have the Broken Link Checker, but it only works if you bother to check it (which I obviously didn't).....😗
I think routine and scheduling takes the choice out of procrastination... We have this for our YouTube filming and we never miss an upload, so why not for blogging? For me it's about ALWAYS keeping the bigger picture and the medium and long term goals in place because often I can be easily distracted with posts and comments especially if it's from Partha, I can lose a whole morning...lol simply because my daily schedule has flexibility written in....
I have a YouTube channel and what I was saying is we create a content calendar, we schedule filming we schedule uploads, and we never miss an upload, so why don't I do the same for my blogging/website....!!?
