What Everyone at WA Ought To Know About Effective Blog Writing

byMudreM

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Updated 9 years ago

What makes an effective blog post? More importantly, how do I START writing those elusive blog posts regularly?

Most inexperienced bloggers face these two daunting obstacles when attempting to build a nice, professional website. This is additionally noticeable among newbies who dream of earning money online. I see that many WA members struggle with tons of helpful insights scattered around that unmistakably drive our focus away. So what should we do?

• First things first. If you’re reinvigorating a habit of regular writing (as I do with these posts) try to write something every day. However, try NOT to write anything just for the sake of writing or scoring higher rank at WA. People will read a few posts and give up at some point, unless you offer useful content like advice, suggestions, helpful links, experience etc. Try to write – as I am doing right now - about your frustration with a positive slant. Try to find solutions to your dilemmas and when you do, share them with others. Most people will appreciate it.

• Second, think of effective headlines (look around here for tutorial written by BIS) that grab readers’ attention. Ensure your headline matches your content. Don’t risk grabbing your reader and offering a disappointing experience.

• Third, you want to attract readers’ attention throughout your article. A good way to do it is by separating a long, boring text into smaller chunks. This works well because most readers tend to scan content before deciding if it’s worth devoting time to reading full texts. In addition, this makes your blog visually more attractive. Use bullets, numbers, new lines, new paragraphs, indentation etc.

• Fourth, write short sentences. Cut unnecessary words. It works better. Short sentences allow maintaining our focus.

• Fifth, your article’s length should radiate seriousness and professionalism. Write no less than 300 words, but try to keep it within 1.000 word limit. The Internet users are inundated with thousands of stimuli that distract their attention. They need a helpful hand to solve their dilemmas. If you manage to wrap it in a short text, people will appreciate it and will dig for more of what you have to offer.

• Sixth, ask for feedback. Don’t fear negative feedback. If it’s written by an honest reader you’ll get a good lesson. Positive feedback will encourage you. Will see what the feedback on this post is going to be. Make sure you credit a source where necessary. By doing this you will be perceived as an honourable community member.

• Finally, if you want to start writing about whatever, consider using my 5-step approach:

1. At some point STOP thinking what you should write about,
2. DECIDE on your topic – it may be the first one that comes to mind,
3. Do some RESEARCH about it if you don’t feel confident enough,
4. STOP again with what you’ve collected, and
5. WRITE that post!

Don’t go for a perfect piece of text. Instead, let it out and repeat the process with new posts. In no time you’ll be proud of yourself when you realise you’ve written tens of posts. Give it a try now! Review your achievements in, say, four weeks’ time. I guarantee you’ll be surprised.