Work and Rework Until Results Prove It's Done

Yes work and rework, every single blog.

I keep learning more and more every day. And I keep applying what I learn. The good news is, I am learning fast with the help here at WA. The challenge is, I was up to 24 blogs, and began learning things that caused me to go back and rework every one of them.

I am thankful I learned it now, rather than after 50 or 60 blogs! I love how quickly this WA is set up to get me writing content and learning and applying what I learn.

I have been a member since Nov 29, so I am a newbie. I don't yet have traffic or rankings, except my fellow WA'ers. I get it will take a while. And I am site the best possible for me to create!

What did I learn that sent me back to work and rework?

1. .I learned that the sweet spot for blogs is 1000-1200 words. I had a few that were creeping toward twice that! Guess what! Now I have 35 blogs instead of 24. Pretty cool.
   
2. I learned how important it is to have internal as well as external links. Now I have links from one post to another, for relevant content and further digging for my readers.
3. I learned to make sure every post has a problem or reason for the reader to be searching for it. Then a solution for that reader. Very important the benefits for him of that solution. And close with a call to action-

In the midst of all that, the post has to be reader-friendly, with headlines, bold, images, and short paragraphs. I have to have a conversation with my reader, not give a lecture or a treatise. I'm even using contractions - see how I just did that!

I was an English major in college...contractions in writing, not having a topic sentence with two supporting facts, and then a conclusion - not the way I was taught to write. But it is definitely the way I speak. Now I am speaking more and more to my readers- when they start to come!

And they will. I know, because everything else here at WA makes so much sense, and is so well put together, that the results will come too.

Oh- one more benefit of working and reworking - google will re-index and I could actually get a ranking increase because I did all this work. Ah, that and the self-esteem from a job well done.

I recommend you go back and recheck your first month stuff, too. The odds are really high those early posts could use some work.