How to use SiteContent buckets to plan and prioritize your writing schedule

This is a short tutorial to show you how I use SiteContent Buckets to plan and prioritize my writing schedule.

SiteContent is just one of the awesome tools within the Wealthy Affiliate platform. Once you have mastered the basics of SiteContent and all it's functionality, I guarantee it will be one of the essential tools in your content writing toolkit.

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celiacman Premium
Hello
I started using site content today, I was wondering is there any way to insert videos in your post from site content?
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kdforsman Premium
Hi there, What i do is insert the embed code into my draft in SiteContent, and when I publish to Wordpress I just cut that embed code out of the visual editor and repaste in the Text editor. Hope that helps, Cheers, Karen
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kdforsman Premium
Did you try what I put above? That does sound really weird - hopefully SiteSupport can get to the bottom of it for you. Cheers, Karen
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kdforsman Premium
what's the name of the site? PM me if you prefer.
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kdforsman Premium
Oh that’s good!
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pitofly Premium
Thanks for the valuable post! I like the buckets feature.
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kdforsman Premium
The buckets feature is fantastic for organizing your workload - are you currently using it? Cheers, Karen
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pitofly Premium
I think I have come across it but you just explained how useful it really is. So, I will revisit.
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kimwolfe Premium Plus
Hi Karen. I enjoyed this training. I especially enjoyed the different organization examples. Thanks for sharing.
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kdforsman Premium
Hi Kim, you're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed the training. Are you using buckets within SiteContent? Cheers, Karen
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kimwolfe Premium Plus
Yes. I use buckets to organize content for different websites. However, I still feel unorganized and inefficient. I also have not reached my writing goals yet so I'm still tweaking my process to find the most efficiency.

So, I'm thinking of utilizing buckets for the theme category as you suggested (e.g. reviews, product comparisons, etc.). Each of these can utilize a different template also available in SiteContent.

I think this will help me organize content categories a bit better and streamline my post output and make it easy to add categories and tags in WP, when posting.

Also, I honestly never noticed the "published" vs. "unpublished" filter set before your training. I can't believe I missed that. #facepalm

Your training definitely gave me some additional insights.

Thanks again,

Kim
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kdforsman Premium
Hi Kim, I agree, it can take a while to feel like you've got a system that works for you. At this stage my buckets are by website as I have about 5 websites on the go, but I plan to break these down further or at least have a 'urgent' bucket with the articles I need to finish. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Karen
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kimwolfe Premium Plus
How long did it take you to get into a system Karen?

I totally think you have the leg up because you've always been a feverish writer.

I write fine too but too much of a perfectionist. So, I'm slow at it. I can't seem to spit out a rough draft in one sitting. I'm trying to work on that.
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kdforsman Premium
Hi Kim,
rest assured, my system is not perfect yet! my problem is procrastination and also I get bored easily haha!
But to answer your question, it took me a couple of months to settle into a system that works for me, the big thing is to have a clear idea of what work I NEED to finish next - that keeps me centred and on track.
Don't be a perfectionist!! You can always go back into a post and edit and improve it later if you're not happy. The big thing is to get your content out there and ranking.
Cheers, Karen
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Steven-A Premium
I use the buckets and they become more important as the website grows and you have more articles to organize.
Also, easy way to see which articles have been ranked in Google and which have not been ranked.
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kdforsman Premium
Hi Steven, that's a good point, do you sort your unranked articles into separate buckets? Cheers, Karen
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Steven-A Premium
No, I've been sorting by website menu at the moment.
Cheers,
Steve
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Happy2Learn Premium
Thanks Karen. I use site contents but i havent been using the buckets. I just use a simple published / unpublished. I was wondering do you publish from site contents or do you cut and paste it across to WordPress? Cheers
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kdforsman Premium
Hi there, I publish directly from SiteContent to my website, including all the images (so I have the post roughly laid out how I want it), then make any final tweaks in wordpress for SEO etc. Hope this helps, Cheers, Karen
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shadonna77 Premium
Great info thanks Karen
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kdforsman Premium
Thank you !! I appreciate your feedback - have you used the buckets system in the past? Cheers, Karen
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