Can you replace your words in all of your content posting with useful advice?
That means that your content posts and Social Media platforms posts will be how-to lessons.
Your content posting on your blog will have good, solid information instead of offers.
This is what you’ll start to see happening:
- Your blog visitors, and others will discover that you are the expert in what you’re writing and sharing information on.
- Your ideal audience will find you and come to your site to learn from what you have to offer.
- They’ll share your content.
- They’ll subscribe to your blog.
This is the perfect secret to every blogging success I’ve ever heard of.
Wait…there are more essentials to take care of:
1) Now the biggest part of your content is writing exactly what your readers want.
Learn a bit about that by reading this article ‘Are You Listening On Social Media?’
Choose your subject or the problem that they want you to help them solve.
2) Pick your keyword or phrase.
Make a list of keywords ~ read this article to help you… “Still Discovering New Keywords?”
3) Your post needs a title.
I usually get my title with the keywords and then write around that title or headline.
Your post title has to position your content posting and compel your ideal readers to click and start reading.
4) Your Images
Your content posting would just be plain old boring without an image to engage your reader, break up long boring text, and illustrate your points – even as it draws their eyes in specific directions.
During or after I write my content is when I’ll become inspired and find my image, or make it using PicMonkey
- I want my main introductory image to reflect what I’m writing.
5) Your content
Once I have my blog post drafted, I re-read it, and sift through how it flows, making sure I use short paragraphs, allowing for white space and visual clues to bring their eyes to for easy reading. Like:
- Bullets
- Indents
- Bold
- Italics
- Color
6) Your Call-to-Action
OK – this is your opt-in giveaway.
The call to action is you asking them to give their email and name in exchange for your gift of value.
You have to make it clear what you want them to do after reading your post.
7) Links
While I’m writing my blog post, I’m thinking of links to my own posts within my site that will give the reader more ideas and training with similar posts for reference.
PLUS – and this is also big…
Internal links – this is linking to other blog posts within your site and is great for your SEO.
To sum it up?
Your content posting for your blog means you have to do your research on each of these essentials.
I hope this was helpful – I’m sure a lot of readers here already are using these essentials for their content posting.
Looking forward to hearing how this helped, and what more you’d like to read here.
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THIS is what every new blogger NEEDS to read! SO useful 🙂
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This is a great format especially when you are creatively stumped. It can also help with continuity.
Alice Chase recently posted..Finally letting go of 2014… Bring on 2015!
That’s what I was hoping to hear, Alice – thank you
I agree. Having an outline makes the writing process a bit easier.
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Thanks, Chrystal – glad you thought this might make it easier 🙂
This is a great format especially when you are creatively stumped. It can also help with continuity.
Alice Chase recently posted..Finally letting go of 2014… Bring on 2015!
Super cool, Alice – so glad I could be of help 🙂
This is such great info! Blogging is about more than reaching people. It’s about getting them to come back. We’re far more likely to do that if we have content that is helpful.
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Hi Donna,
Extremely useful. I will print this out. I realize one of the posts I wrote and really wanted readers to act has too much information in it. My call to action should have happened right after the readers watch the video and not have more content after that. That is today’s post, “Stand by Me RP” If you want, check it out. Well, I hope that it works to some extent anyway. Thanks again.
Amy
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Dropping in from the UBC now! What stood out in your post this time was your step in making the bullets, bold, italics and colors. I have just started with colored internal links and really need to try bullets sometimes.
Thanks!
Amy
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Great tips! As bloggers we definitely want to grab people’s attention!
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Thanks, Lisa – sometimes we need to be reminded of the easy and simple things 🙂 I know I do!
Thanks, Lisa – sometimes we need to be reminded of the easy and simple things 🙂 I know I do!
Awwww, YES!!! Totally what’s needed in order to post good good content. And it just all make sense when we think about it. Especially you sharing the graphics too! Helps lots!! I wish someone showed me the way (just like how you’re showing us today) this tips. I would have saved soooo much time and energy. LOL..
Thank you!!
Janelle
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That’s good advice on how to choose your title. I often write the whole article, and then the heading pops into my mind.
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It was the addition of the “call to action” as well as the question at the end that really boosted my reader interaction. My posts no longer seemed to leave my readers looking at a blank wall. I still have more to learn and will be bookmarking this. Awesome! 😀
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Super, Cia – again I am so glad to hear this
Right on point, Donna! These are the exact steps I take each time I write and publish my blog posts. Thanks for the tips and I’ll be sure and social share your article. It’s awesome! 🙂
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Wow! Thank you so much Aletha – so appreciate hearing that
Hi Donna,
Again you did it with this fantastic post for bloggers my friend!!! Tons of great value-packed tips and I have shared for others to see 😉
Thank you for always providing value and sharing tips that anyone can implement as you know I love what you put out and share it all over!!!
Awesome post!!!
Big Hugs,
Joan
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Great outline for those starting out! I need to be better at adding tags.
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This is great information. Titles are very important as well as images.
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Thanks, loving hearing that 🙂
Great points, all of them are so true. What I find interesting is definitely a call to action, especcially at the bottom of a post. Whenever I DON’T ask readers a question at the end of a blog post, I rarely get comments. Funny.
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I know, right, Nancy? It took me awhile for the direct question to come about – but, finally…
This is wonderful! I love how you break everything down!
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This was very helpful information about creating a blog post. I’m still a little new to the blogging world, I admit, so this was helpful! I am going to bookmark it so I can reference back.
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Thanks Mary – You have a lovely site and I will look forward to seeing you more often 🙂
Really great to know! I will be sharing. I’m always looking to learn more and grow with blogging so this is helpful!
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Good and useful information. So many writers need to read this and act on it.
Thank you, Aimee! So very true
You hit the nail on the head with this post. You have to write for your readers, not for yourself.
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Thanks so much Nina – again I just love hearing my readers’ responses that I did something right = very important!
Picking keywords was what I struggled with as a beginning blogger. This is a great guide to content that people want to see!
This is such a great post! I am always looking for better ways to increase my blog audience and build it up! I love the advice you’ve given and I’m going to start doing it!
Super cool, Lauren – just what I love hearing 🙂
Donna
This is an awesome checklist…and one I will definitely be looking at…
A must for every home based business owner who wishes to monetize their blog
Dr. Lisa
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This is definitely a great guide. I often times slack on the keyword choices.
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This is an excellent post. I will share it wit my friends that are starting blogging.
Always fun to hear, Ann – thank you
I tried this post set up for the first few months when I was first started blogging. It didn’t do anything for me. I don’t know what the deal was but it seemed to be ineffective for my readers.
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Well, Nicole – could it be key words or maybe just not what you audience wanted at that time – I know I always get better and better with writing for my readers over time – thank you for your note 🙂
Well, Nicole – could it be key words or maybe just not what you audience wanted at that time – I know I always get better and better with writing for my readers over time – thank you for your note 🙂
So many great tips here. I may have to re-examine the way I write my blog posts.
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I guess we all ultimately hope that we have what it takes to engage our readers. Hopefully we do.
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Yes, it’s just getting out there and knowing our readers a bit more, right? Thank you for your thoughts!
All new bloggers need to know these things!!! But content is definitely the most important!
Right on, Elizabeth – and old time bloggers, like myself, forget some of the little things and need to be reminded also 🙂
Great post, I like the graphic and the way you broke to down in the article.
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Thank you, Maureen – Super to hear that 🙂
Great tips. I struggle with the keywords and meta description. I am always looking for the green light on my WP blog.
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Smart move, checking for that green light! Thank you for your note 🙂
This is a really great guide for a blog post. I’ll definitely keep this in mind when I’m creating new content.
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Thanks Kori – always good to hear that 🙂
This lays it out very clearly. I didn’t know about the internal links
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So glad you found out something new – and glad you commented, thank you!
It’s always good to have some sort of an outline for any style of writing. It really helps keep things flowing, but if you stick to the formula without letting this flow in your own pattern, you run the risk of sounding less than authentic.
Chrystal @ Nevermore Lane recently posted..That Time I Bought a $1800 iMac
The formula here is more to attract – then about sharing our voice and authenticity – which you are right about, thanks, Chrystal 🙂
Absolutely agree 100%! Especially about the short paragraphs and bullet points. Makes it so much easier to find what I really came for!
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Thank you, Theresa – so glad to hear that!
Thanks for these tips. I need to work on my SEO this year. Blogging is hard work and it takes so much time… let me get to work. Thanks
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You are welcome – yes blogging is time consuming – and getting our system in place is a priority –
Excellent advice. I hate it when I’m looking for something specific but have to sift through all the advertising to find the content. (And sometimes it’s very difficult to tell the difference.)
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Yes, I certainly can understand that, Cherri – thank you for your note! 🙂
This is really great advice. Thanks for sharing the info!
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You are welcome, Stefany – thanks so much for your comment 🙂
Great advice. I have been using your advice and I’m seeing it comes together on my blog. Thanks for being my mentor and inspiring me to be a better blogger.
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Wow! Tamika – thank you so much 🙂
Yeah, I think the biggest challenge is to find something you are passionate about, blog about it, and share your ideas to a group of readers who have common interest. That way, they will be keep their interest on what you post and become avid readers. Another one is authority in the web which is like hard to attain quickly.
Great points and thank you – so once you have your blog post ready to share – using these elements will help attract and make it easier for your readers
wow that was a great post, this is really helps especially to the new blogger. I’m looking into this and pass it thanks.
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Wonderful to hear, Angela – thank you 🙂
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This sure is useful. We’re already doing some of the things that you’ve mentioned. We’ll try to do the others. Thank you for sharing.
Lynndee recently posted..Mushroom Brown Rice Pilaf
I get in a huge slump every now & then and just seeing something like this in writing, helps to get me out of it. Like now! LOL
I enjoy all of these tips that you share. The ones in this post are things that I have been working on implementing more on my blog.
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Great format and advice. Making people want to come back is the most important thing.
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Thanks so much Nichole – hope to see you back here!
Great tips! I’m glad to see that I’ve been incorporating them each on my own blog CanadianMomEh.com.
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These are really great tips. I have bene blogging for over 6 years and I am always learning new things!
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