How to Write an Awesome Blog Post for beginners in 2021
Blog posts can come in many formats. They can be like a journal entry where the author writes down their thoughts on a topic. Almost like storytelling. Posts can also be written in list format. They can also be written in in segments with an introduction, body and conclusion.
Here are few tips and tricks on how to write blog post.
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Keep a “hit list” of articles to write
Just spin one day a few hours getting your keywords that you find using our Google alphabet-soup method that we always use and put them in a Google Doc then any time you want to write just go to your hit list and grab the your headline
Create awesome Title for blog
It should be catchy, stand out from the rest of the mass. After reading it, the potential visitor decides whether to study visit website . To create a compelling headline, you need to understand the needs of the target audience, analyze its problems and offer a solution; Title Must Contain AIDA(Attention, Interest, Desire, Action)
Introduction or question of Blog content
Introduction of your content need to hook people with the bold statement for example I know this is a video but I hooked you by saying hey do you want the formula that breaks on how
Your introduction it’s not just talking hooking people in it’s also about what’s gonna be covered in the post just give them a quick overview and what you’re gonna teach them is a great way to hook them in as well to get them to go more into your blog posts read more into your body
Research to find your information
Research is fun. You get to read dozens of top blogs, browse
Wikipedia and click from one website to the next. just do some research quickly finding an answer usually that’s spread across forum posts and YouTube videos
First sentence and answer paragraph
Just make the first sentence of your blogpost something that works well as a description so that get first sentence and then you’ll have your answer paragraph is about three to four sentences long and this is it just is a quick summary like this
Write 3-5 subheadings as a structure
structure of subheadings Fill- in content explaining the subheadings that will further develop the topic we almost never see blog posts that ranked number one that are incredibly short in fact backlinko did a study and they found that of number one search results on google that the average word count was 1980 words so a longer blog post like almost always is going to outperform a really short
Write Now, Edit Later:
Stephen King says, “To write is human, to edit is divine.”Editing is when you take that messy first draft of your blog post,tidy it up and get it ready for the world.
However, editing is also a
later part of the process of writing. Edit your content and remove any bullshit you have written.
Add images, videos and whatever media you have to display.
Everyone enjoys images that are visually appealing you obviously have to put at least one nice big image at the top I like todo something full with at the top you may also need one or two supporting images to look more appealing also google prefer more image on content
Check if your content is optimized for SEO.
Before you start writing an Article, do proper Keyword Research. Always target a keyword that people are looking for.
It’s useless to write on a topic that are not searched. So, Keyword Research is vital for driving traffic through search engines. Hence, it’s also a part of SEO.
There are two type of SEO
On Page SEO
Most of the CMS platform come with SEO optimize plugin or module for wordpress . Yoast plugin, the best tool to do SEO for your website blogs. It provides instant analytic feedback on your content so you’ll quickly discover if keyword placement follows best practices, images are properly tagged, and your posts have a favorable readability rating
- Optimizing images with alt tags that are SEO friendly
- Avoid duplicate content- Don’t use the same description for the pages on your websites. You will be penalized.
- Use WordPress categories strategically
- Creating effective url
- Sitemap creation and creating effective meta tags and titles
Off Page SEO
After finishing on page SEO Now its time to create backlinks for the website, which is the backbone of ranking a website. Create backlinks for your website by submitting the website to different websites. social media forum and other Blog submission webiste
Write conclusion
The conclusion summarizes what your post was about, A word of advice, or something to watch out for A link to a resource of yours (or someone else’s) that you recommend they read or download for further information? A link to another blog post you think they’d also like, so they stay longer on your blog. So with your conclusion, make sure you label it “Conclusion”