This post is part of the guest blogger experiment.

So you have an A-List blog? You receive dozens, if not hundreds, of comments from new commenters each week as well as plenty of new subscribers to your influential blog every day. Don’t tell me you’ll never have time to email every one of those new commenters to tell them how much you appreciate them! You do have at least fifty posts ready to go at all times, don’t you? And I thought you were an A-Lister!! You should at least have twenty you are working on. If you don’t organize your blogging, you are headed for disaster. I’m going to give you some tips that will help you organize your blogging.

Computer folders and Microsoft Word documents are fine as blogging organizers. Every day I read at least 15 blogs in my niche, some days I read over fifty. In these blogs I have read posts about bloggers using folders and Word to store their blogging ideas. If it works for you, use it, but I have a better way, and the rest of the cows in the pasture should, too.

Get yourself a forum. Don’t go cheap, PHPBB forums are not secure. Stay the heck away from SMF. Get an Invision Power Board. It will cost you approximately $100-$120 per year. Set up your forums and subforums and develop your blog articles there. Once you have the post written, move it to your WordPress installation’s dashboard. You DO use WordPress, don’t you? WP is the very best blog platform ever developed. Once you have the post pasted inside your dashboard, add the pertinent links to your post. Check it and proofread it and don’t forget to check your spelling, nothing turns me off faster than a grossly misspelled blog article. Don’t bother to use spell check within IPB forums, if you can’t spell, don’t bother to blog. Don’t forget to check your link integrity.

Use your Blogging subforum. You’ll have a lot of material posted in your blogging forum. You can use different threads (topics) for different items. For example, you should develop and maintain a list of all your commenters. You should make a new list of all your new commenters. All of these visitors to your blog must be emailed with a thank you message. You must also comment at least ONCE on each of their blogs.

Differentiate your subforums. What I do is set up a separate subforum for each blogging concern, such as new commenters, commenters, backlinkers, guest bloggers, ideas for new blog posts, blog posts under development, and completed blog posts ready for deployment to your blog platform. You should also have subforums for blogs you read (and you’d better be reading at least 50 blogs per week!!!), blogs you’ve discovered and intend to read, social networks you have joined, social networks you are going to join, and blog authors’ contact information, among numerous other items of concern to a blogger. You should be developing descriptions of all the blogs you read on an ongoing basis. If you are asked for a review, you’d better be prepared, A-Lister. The ability to set subforums is one of the advantages of using an Invision Power Board. So you will have at least fifteen subforums within your main blogging forum for starters.

As you grow as a blogger, you’ll add to your blogging subforums. As you meet new bloggers you will develop relationships with, you’ll list their contact info and particulars in the appropriate subforum. Within that subforum you will open a page for each blog author. The same goes for your growing commenters’ base. There are many ways to develop an informational database using an IPB forum, but I am giving you a general overview.

Obtain another domain for your blogging organizer forum. Keep in mind that this is not a forum that you want people to join. You’ll generally used secured forums, but this will be a private forum, with no registration allowed. You can set the permissions so that no one can even view the unsecured forums. I have mine on an entirely different domain which is new and has not even been live long enough for search engines to index it. Use the default settings. You want this forum to be as bland and uninteresting as old buildings in certain third world countries.

Application: This is workable even for beginning bloggers, but as you grow, you are going to experience a crush of information as you network with other bloggers, and read many other blogs, and you will find that you have a ton of information to manage. Unless you have the capital outlay to invest in staff, you’ll need to be organized from the very beginning. This system is scalable over time, I use it to manage many other projects such as electronic store development and implementation and other information-intensive projects.

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