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Maybe you need a little help organizing your blog with upcoming post ideas, reviews, and all the expenses that can go along with running a site. Years ago I created a free blog planner that has been a huge help to me and many other. The planner itself is undated so it can be used year after year, but recently I updated the yearly calendar page for my readers as well and thought it would be great to reshare.
Would you like a peek inside my blog planner?
To make a blog planner similar to mine you will need the following supplies:
I use a Mead flexible binder that is a cross between a 3 ring binder and a plastic covered composition notebook. The binder gives me plenty of room to expand and can also use pockets and dividers that fit in a typical 3 ring binder. The planner is set up to print front/back and is not dated, so you can use it from year to year. Each month there is a month-at-a-glance calendar with room underneath to note the most important things to do.
I use monthly calendar to give me a quick snapshot overview and see if there are things I need to move or add in. The facing page has room to track giveaways and/or reviews. I like having all of the company info in one spot {contact info, important links, due dates, etc…} along with space to check off when it is completed. I typically try not to schedule more than 2 reviews or giveaways in a month, but have room for three…just in case!
There is also additional space to jot down extra notes {Note: I custom divided this area in mine to keep track of any sponsors/advertisers that I have for the month}. Along the sides of the planner, I use Avery Write-on Tabs to label the months in the planner, so I can quickly flip to those months if needed.
Having the weeks at a glance is also really helpful to me, so I have two pages that lay flat and give me space to track posts and see them laid out weekly. Each post area also has social media reminders for me to check off {Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+}. Sometimes my brain just needs a few added reminders!
There are a few months that need more than 4 weeks of layouts, and for those weeks, I printed a few extra sheets of the weekly layouts, cut them in half, 3 hole-punched them and added them into those months that needed them. Toward the back of the blog planner there are planning pages to help you with any additional details you may want to track {and maybe even a few you hadn’t thought of yet!}. Overall, this 66 page blog planner includes:
- 12 month-at-a-glance pages with a monthly focus list
- room to track reviews and giveaways
- space to jot notes and ideas
- weekly post trackers, including social media reminders
- yearly goals and objectives
- monthly website analytics tracker: RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc…
- a place to keep track of affiliate program info
- a Twitter hashtag tracker {because there are lots!
- Google communities and hangout tracker
- Pinterest Group boards tracker
- Periscope users and scopes to follow tracker
- Instagram hashtag tracker
- weekly blog meme tracker
- mileage sheet {who thought blogging might involve driving?}
- website username & password sheet {I can’t remember them all!}
- and room to jot down all those wonderful post ideas
Ready to get started printing your own blog planner?
Need more planning and organization help?
Check out these additional organizational printables:
~ Editable Monthly Menu Planner
Thank you so much for this!! Pinned and am printing now!
have fun with it!! :) I’ve been scribbling in mine all week and am loving it!
Thank you! Love it! The colour combo looks oh so cute!
not typical me colors, but the graphic was just too cute!! :)
What a wonderful tool to share with us! Thank you!
Thank you! I’ve been looking for something like this. Cute and functional :)
Jolanthe, THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is absolutely WONDERFUL. I will be sharing with all of my subscribers :) Bless you for sharing your wonderful God given talents with the body of Christ and fellow homeschoolers :)
This is awesome thanks. I have been trying to keep track of everything in my life in one book but its not working may give this a try.
this is amazing!!!! i am posting it on my blog so that my readers can find you too! :-)
Thanks! I absolutely love it! The colors and everything…I will be using this for sure…
These look great! They certainly tromp my current sticky notes all over the place method. I have been waiting for somebody to offer something like this, and it is a true blessing. Thank you so much!
most welcome. My sticky notes were cracking me up! It worked, but it was time to get something in place that did the ENTIRE job!
Wow! I just downloaded this and I’m so excited! I love how it looks… Kind of reminds me of my Homeschooling planner :)
I wanted to let you and your readers know about a giveaway I’m hosting on my blog. It’s for educational printables from Little Learning Lovies.
You can enter in lots of ways. http://www.LittleLearningLovies.com
I hope to see you there!
This is a great! I love the look and it makes everything so much easier to keep track of. Thank you so much!
have fun using them. :)
Printing mine now. Thank you so much!
Love it!!!
This is awesome Jolanthe! Thanks! :D
This is great! Thank you! What a great way to stay organized and keep things orderly.
you’re welcome, Kristen. :)
Girlfriend, you rock! Love all the extras!!! I will for sure be adding some to my planner next year!!!
if you think of any extras I need to add, let me know. :) I was having so much fun using some of the forms this week. It’s already been super helpful to me!
Thank you for this. I hope that this will help me keep posting regularly on my blog.
I can’t make promises!! :)
What a great planner!! I’m pinning this and printing it now!! Thanks for all your hard work on this and for sharing it with all of us!
That is awesome!! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for creating this. I need to ramp up my planning. This will be a great help.
Wow, I was planning to print off a calendar today for some blog planning – I’m so glad I stumbled across this blog post! Thank you for creating it.
thanks
Just what I needed! Thanks for sharing!
I loved watching the progress on this! I need to get it printed out and start using it now!!
This is fantastic! Thank-you! :)
Love this! I think it’s exactly what I’ve been wanting!
I love all the extras! I have one that I’ve been using for the basics such as what posts I have scheduled, upcoming reviews, etc. but I was looking for something that would help remind me of link-ups and social media things and I love the sheets for mileage and expenses. Many thanks! This is going to be so useful for me!!!
So glad to hear that, Sharla. :) Have fun with it!! It’s already helped me a lot!
WOW you dont know how bad I needed this! (God knew..)! Thanks so much Jolanthe!
have fun printing and planning. :)
Bravo!!! I just knew you would have something soon for all of us begging for a Blogging Planer. Thank you, it is just beautiful!
enjoy!
I just downloaded your blog planner. I am looking forward to using this. I get all these ideas in my head, and then loose them :( I was wondering…what is the purpose of using Google Plus? I am still trying to wrap my arms around this social media thing. Why do people use, and how can it benefit my blog? There are so many things to keep track of! I enjoy receiving your posts, and have learned so much. Thanks!
I’m still wrapping my brain around the entire Google+ thing, but essentially it’s another platform to help promote things that you enjoy ~ different audience, etc… and because it’s run by Google {think search engine} it can be really beneficial to helping others ‘find’ things that they are looking for.
Thank you, Jolanthe! i really needed this! :)
Blessings!
Alycia
oh thank you thank you thank you! I needed this so badly!!!
This is just wonderful! I have random blogging organizational tools I’ve put together, but nothing as nice or as comprehensive as this.This is THE best blog organizer I’ve seen! Thank you, if you were here I would hug you!
So glad they will be a help to others too!! :) Have fun using them {and I felt the virtual hug!!}.
Wow! Thanks–you are amazing! I am going to share your site on FB with my home school friends (I am not currently home schooling, but I have a special place in my heart for those who do!)
WOW!!! This is perfect – and cute too!!! Thanks so much for sharing your hard work!!
Thanks so much for offering this pretty, functional planner. Can’t wait to use it!
wow!
i googled some ideas for chore planners (i’m just too lazy to make my own!) and came across this, totally awesome! thank you for sharing it and it being a freebie…though i’d happily have paid for this!!
This is amazing. Thank you so much for this free download. It’s really going to help me!! You’ve done a lovely job! :P
Enjoy them, Jolene! :)
Thank you so much. This is a great download!
thanks weell done and totally needed
LOVE! Thank you so much!
Question:
After I printed and was using the weekly plan sheet, I was wondering what the “SEO:” was that was in the box each day. I’m sure this stands for something, but I can’t seem to figure it out! Could you explain what this is? :)
keywords that I may want to target in searches, etc… for example, this post might be ‘free blog planner’ :)
Thanks so much for sharing
Thank you so much for sharing this. I’m on several stamping design teams and this is going to make my life so much better.
Enjoy, Deanna! :)
I love how your planner looks and all the it includes. Thanks so much!
have fun using it!! :)
I am defenitly a fan of the planner you offer, just tweeted for you
Thanks so much for sharing, Karren! Hope they are a huge help to you!
Thank you so much for this! Printing now to get organized for 2013 — this is so pretty; it inspires me to be organized and hopefully more creative, too!
Love this planner, I will share this to my fellow bloggers and I am printing now. It offers a great way to keep all my blogging events and ideas in one place. Thank you for taking the time to create.
enjoy! :)
Wow! You are amazing to share this wealth of information! I am an aspiring blogger and this will help but me on the right track, from the start! Love it!!
Enjoy, Mary – and have fun blogging!
Thanks so much for this information! I love the design of your blog too. I’m just starting off and I’m trying to find additional resources about designs, etc. Thanks Again!
Oh my goodness…. this planner is so cute and will be so helpful! Thank you so much for creating it. I’ve pinned it with a link back to your site so others can find it too :)
Shauna {The Best Blog Recipes}
http://thebestblogrecipes.blogspot.com/
thanks so much Shauna. :)
Thanks so much for this. While I didn’t use everything, I did use quite a few of your printables to make my own blogging binder.
I must have visited this page 20 times before I printed out the planner. I absolutely love it. The only question is, what do you put for SEO?
choose the keywords that you want to use for SEO
This is absolutely amazing – thank you so much!
Holy Toledo! I’ve been sort of a casual when-I-feel-like-it blogger, and I’d really like to step it up this year. I figured I’d have to piece together a plan or create my own. I NEVER expected this! Thank you so much. Very, very cool of you.
I just printed off your blogging planner… I found you at http://www.fabnfree.com/2012/08/30/20-free-printable-blog-planners/ after God revealed to me a desperate need for this valuable resource. I have always maintained my schedule in other simple ways. But times are changing! Your planner had all the main features I needed most and I am looking forward to using it as I seek to be transformed in blogging during 2013. Thank you for this wonderful resource!
God Bless!
Amanda Jones
FaithfulHomeschool.blogspot.com
Thank you for sharing this! I happily clicked the FB link when blog buddies Susan B. and Tara K. shared this. :-)
enjoy! :)
Thank you so very much for this. The planner you put together has everything I need to get my blog organized. Kudos to you!!!
Happy organizing! :)
Thanks! :) I can’t wait to print mine out and get started!!
Have fun planning, Davina! :)
This is awesome! Thank you thank you thank you! What a blessing!
This is absolutely amazing – thank you so much! I’ve been looking at a lot of blag planners lately and this is the best I’ve seen yet.
enjoy!! :)
This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing your planner! You have saved me so much Time!!
Take care,
Frances @ http://www.notionsfromnonny.com
Thank you for sharing. I need the help!
I just came across your blog today – and downloaded this Blog Planner. Thank you so very much – it is beautiful! And so very practical. You are very generous to share this with others.
enjoy!
I love this! It is so helpful. I’m sharing it on my blog and sending people your way to downloadi t!
thanks for sharing – hope it’s a huge help to you and your readers. :)
This looks fantastic! Thank you for sharing it!
Thank you so much!
Thank You! Not only very useful but also beautiful. Will you be making a new Year at a Glance?
I suppose I’ll have to soon, won’t I? :) Need to add that to my ‘to-do’ list. Thanks for the reminder!
I’m french woman and so Thank you for your blog planner.
Could I ask what software you use to create your amazing work? I find myself always coming back to see what you have on your blogs…thank you for being such and wonderful witness with your work.
Publisher and Adobe Acrobat are the two I use. :)
Thanks so much…I’m putting together my birthday gift wish list!! Fingers crossed!
Thanks! This planner appears to have “everything” for a home business!
Sandie – I just updated the planner and uploaded a new copy {dates for
2014/15 and also a few extra pages, so be sure to check it out!
Thank you so much, beautiful graphics and wonderful planning ideas!
Thank you for this. It’s just what I need as I start my new blog. And beautiful too!
Enjoy! I hope to release an updated version soon with newer calendars/dates and a few extra pages. :)
LeeAnn – I just updated the planner and uploaded a new copy {dates for
2014/15 and also a few extra pages, so be sure to check it out!
Thanks for letting me know! I just got mine printed and hole punched – it is exactly what I needed!
I’m working on a household organizer now and LOVING it so far. Cannot wait to share with you all – should I ever get the printing part of it figured out!!
I’m working on a household organizer now and LOVING it so far. Cannot wait to share with you all – should I ever get the printing part of it figured out!!
Thank you so much! This is gorgeous and so useful!
Ashton – I just updated the planner and uploaded a new copy {dates for 2014/15 and also a few extra pages, so be sure to check it out! :)
I just love this blog planner, have only just discovered it today & already printed out ready for use. Will you create a 2014 calendar page? Thanks in advance :o)
It is on my to do list. :)
Mandy – I am working on a calendar update and adding a few more pages to it as well – so please stay tuned! :)
Printed out more pages today! I love this planner, Jolanthe. I keep coming back to it over and over again when my planner gets thin. Thank you!
Yay!! Hope you are doing well, Suzanne! This version is much better than my sticky note edition! :)
Thank you so much for this! I know you made this several years ago, but people are still printing it and using it! Very helpful!
Enjoy!! The beauty of having it undated! :)
Thank you for sharing your planner. I’m making one and your pages are fabulous!
I’m back to print for 2015, I love your planner and appreciate that you still offer it fee. I have shared this many places and will again, hope you dont mind. Happy Holidays!!! Pinned & Tweeted
Thanks so much, Karren. :) Glad it’s a help to others too!!
This is lovely! I downloaded it and can’t wait to use it!
Enjoy!
Jolanthe, I’m here from a link over at Cafe Blogelina. Thank you so much for offering this for free! I’m a new blogger, and one of my goals right now is to find a system to get all things blogging organized. I printed mine up already!
Enjoy, Tiffany – I hope it’s a huge help to you!
your homeschool planner is working perfect for my family, I can’t wait to use the blog planner too. herenfamily.com
I love your homeschool planner so this was the first place I looked for a blog planner. Thanks so much.
This is great. Thanks
Thank you for this wonderful planner. Just started treating my blog as more than a hobby and this will really help me organize.
Enjoy and I hope it is a huge help! :)
Your free printable for blogging is SUPER detailed, intense and PERFECT. I wanted to tell you thank you very much for putting this out there for people. I posted it on my facebook page to share.
You are most welcome – and thanks so much for sharing! :)
What does SEO stand for?
Search engine optimization. :)
Thanks so much!!! It’s so beautiful! Can I ask a favor? Would you be willing to update the Year at a Glance to 2016-2017? steelmagnoliagrits@yahoo.com
done! :)
Thank you! I’ve recommended your site to my friends.
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I absolutely LOVE your blog planner design!! But, I’m sad that it doesn’t fit my planner. I use the Happy Planner and the pages are too big. Are you able to offer different sizes?
Love this planner, do you have a 2016/7 update?
The current calendar in the file is for 2016/2017. :)
great I must have an old one.
I’ve been trying to update the calendar every year – thanks for the reminder! :)
Hi, I was wondering if you were going to do an updated yearly calendar for the planner. It’s almost the end of January and I still haven’t found it. 2018-2019 is the years. I just love your color scheme and layout so I don’t want to change out my planner. I just need it all to match. Thanks Joy Z.
This is great. I needed something like this.
Thank you!
I need to get this printed now.Lol
Thank you, you are a rock star. I’ve been looking for planners that are either free or cheap and someone recommended your site
enjoy!
Thank you! So pretty and simple.
I loved this! I had moved away from my Google calendar, but now that I am blogging regularly, I probably need to re-visit to save my poor handwritten planner the pain of being scratched and scribbled to death. I love your suggestion about keeping track of brainstorming right in the description- genius!