Monday, February 11, 2008
How to Write Good Blog Post : An Introduction
Content creation is an art and comes by experience. If you carefully look at the work of some popular blog author, then you will notice that his old posts are quite different from latest posts. As you will traverse his posts in reverse chronological order, you will notice the refinement in his writing skills. No matter how expert you are in your niche, putting it creatively on blog needs some special treatment. Following are some guidelines to write a good post on your blog: 
Appealing Title
The headline of your post makes immediate impact on the reader. Pick a startling title with keyword phrase in it. Keep it 5 to 10 words long and capitalize words. If your title is impressive you will attract more readers to your post.
Opine Honestly
Put your thoughts and opinions with open heart. Pour out all your thoughts on the topic you are discussing. Your visitors are reading it because they want some good tips, tricks and resources from your post. When visitors are coming to your blog, it's your obligation to give them the best.
Put Link to Resources
In every post, do not forget to put some links to free useful resources relevant to post topic. It will make your post extremely popular. You can provide link to free e-books, free web tools and links to similar hugely popular posts.
Engage in Discussion
Ask questions from your readers and get them involved in active and lively discussion in the form of comments or mail. Allowing the readers to interact and take part in the discussion popularizes your blog.
Proofread and Copy Edit
Needless to say, before you click the publish button make sure you have checked the grammar, punctuations, commas and other mistakes in text of your post. Remove all the clutter and arrange the lists properly. Making your post free of any typographical and grammatical errors makes it good reading experience for your readers.
2 comments:
Neat advice and I guess simple thing that we need to remember about post construction.
You could also add the fact that for longer posts we should divide it into subheads. I am working on this one as I tend to get carried away when I am writing.
Yeah Kiviniar, breaking long posts into subheads makes it easy to segregate all important points. In fact topics needing longer narration should be converted into series of "How To's" or tutorial series.
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