Pre-Posting: Keeping Your Blog Active While You Are Away

I am going camping tomorrow. I will be in the woods of the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. I am pretty nervous about this, since I will be unplugged for three days. I honestly can’t remember a time when I was unplugged for so long. I know it existed, but since I started freelancing, I probably haven’t gone more than a day without checking my email and at least making sure that everything is okay. After all, when you are visiting relatives or taking a trip to a major city, it is usually possible to take 15 minutes to touch base.

But, I suppose, the Internet will have to get along without me for a little while 😉

One of the great tools available to bloggers and to business people who have blogs is the pre-post. I will be employing this method on my blogs while I am away. Basically, all you have to do is do your posts ahead of time, and then post them with a “time stamp”. Many blogging platforms allow you to schedule posts for the future, so that they appear automatically. This is a great way to keep your blog active while you are gone.

If you are going to be absent for longer periods, you can ask trusted colleagues for guest posts, so that you are not swamped with trying to do so many extra blog posts. Then, of course, you can schedule those in advance as well before you leave.