Content & Writing Techniques
“Content is king”. Though even better is if we emphasize that “QUALITY content is king”. The website’s and blog’s owner must provide helpful and valuable content, write interesting articles that will make repeat visitors and buzz about the website. This is the 4th step from How to create a successful blog.
A writing schedule brings professionalism
Before we jump into “4 web content steps”, I want to make it clear, if you are blogging as a hobby, it will stay hobby! This is vital. What professional publishers do that amateurs do not? Fact is, they have a publishing schedule. I will share my way. You can follow that guide, adjust it to yourself, or simply ignore it. However you should know the secret that actually distinguishes serious bloggers from those who are just playing around is established writing schedule.
Every Monday I am creating my 3 articles for coming week. And that day, I don’t do any other work until I finish that. Later that week I will publish them one by one. I can make additional daily posts to my weblog, but my 3 articles are always ready. I can write article from scratch or rewrite PLR document, it doesn’t matter. The point is, this is giving me space and freedom throughout the week. Does this make sense to you?
And this is leading us to question “How often to post?” It’s something that can be arguable. Actually, it depends of your weblog purpose, structure and topic. For example, if you are a blogger making income from Google Adsence, and similar types of advertisement, then you will prefer to write on a daily basis. On the other hand, if your weblog is additional to your site or other income type, then probably you do not need that writing pace. Remember, your goal is to provide a value on the first place. If you are just starting the blog, whatever the purpose is, you should try to post every day for first 3 to 4 months, or even twice a day. Because more likely is that person visiting your blog, will bookmark it only if there is enough content. And you can provide it only if you publish documents often. After 3, 4 months, I think, 3-4 posts a week is quite enough, but as I said, it depends on weblog purpose. In any case, bear in mind that every new post is bringing new visitors.
And by the way, most people do not read much these days. So, keep it simple, in most cases about 500 words (better 300-400) per weblog article with related image or video is adequate for blogging. Producing longer articles is always a risk the people will run away from it.
Despite what you may have heard, you do not have to be Ernest Hemingway to have a good blog. The point with blogging is that no one is asking from the author to write stories for the Nobel Prize. Blogging is casual way to stay connected with your readers, customers or friends. And it’s much easier if you use some tools to provide web site content. Let’s see how to get quality documents and which tools and techniques can be useful:
Step 1: Who else want catchy headlines and linkbait tips?
Step 2: How to establish a self writing voice?
Step 3: Perfect articles writing trick!
Step 4: Grab the tools! (coming soon)
If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for RSS feed. Thanks for reading.
