This one is short and sweet.

Do you do a lot of your blog writing in the evenings, or over the weekend? We often can’t control when the urge hits us to get creative and write. If writing at 3 in the morning works for you, that’s great, but don’t publish as soon as you are finished, many of your readers might miss it if you are putting the word out through Twitter and Facebook. Instead, simply Schedule your blog post to go out at a much more acceptable hour!

As soon as you start typing out your article, go to the right side of the post and click Edit next to where it says Publish immediately. You will now see some date controls. Here you can enter in the date and time you want the post to go out.

Once entered, click OK. Now the Publish button becomes a Schedule button instead. Click Schedule. Your post will not be made visible on your blog until the entered date and time. If you have automatic posting set up to Twitter and Facebook (which you should!) then this means your post link will be distributed to those sites at a time when more people will be on them. Bonus!

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