Blogging to me is simple. It’s like a maths equation and I have the answer and it’s so simple to solve.
Reckon for a second. Your on Google and you looking for something, for example, lets say your incisive Low Alkaline Foods.
What do you want to see? An article helping you or an article that is written poorly?
Michael, that’s a silly inquiry. Really it’s not. Because the margin of bloggers write the crap posts and not the fantastic posts.
Your so busy trying to make money from people, you forget the whole point of blogging. The whole point of you writing and people visiting your site is to deliver value, to help them in the way they need helped. If you article is all about you getting paid and ranking will in Google, you will not get everyplace. Google is to smart and people are quick to choose if a website looks like it’s going to help them or not.
Not only that but your most likely writing about a subject you have no right to write about. It’s like this industry, the ‘make money online’ niche. People want to make money online, they see me doing it and so they make a similar blog about how to make money from websites. The problem is, they don’t know no matter what thing about it, they probably reckon they do because they have installed a blog and once, one of their posts got 30 Facebook likes but the reality is, I’ve had millions of people visit my sites before I started this one and so it’s quite clear I know something. You on the other hand haven’t, this is probably your first site and you are simply re-writing things you just learned and don’t yet fully be with you.
This applies to all niches, not just the make money online niche.
The above paragraph reminds me of myself and how I failed huge time at school. I didn’t fail because I wasn’t clever and could not read/write. It was because I didn’t take the time to learn the subject.
The first 429 words of this article were written in under 5 minutes. That means I’m writting at a rate of around 1000 words every 10 minutes. Most blog posts are around 1000 – 2000 words long, at least the margin of the excellent ones. I hear academe students complain that it’s going to take them forever to write 2ooo words. It’s going to take you that long because you don’t yet be with you the subject. If you were told to write about your life, you could write about it at the same speed I write this post. Because you fully be with you it, as you live it.
This isn’t the case with most blog owners. They don’t know enough about what they write about. The point of me telling you this is because you need to firstly know what you are talking about before you try to teach other people.
My bro is fantastic at writing about photography. Why? Because he’s been doing it for years. If I was to spend a week with him learning how to take fantastic shots and then try to write about the subject. It just wouldn’t pleased. I won’t of grasped it. Every time I would go to write about something, I would have to firstly investigate and confirm what I was writing was right.
So how can you start writing successful posts?
1. Read The Initiation
The above initiation isn’t going to be read by most of you. Go back, read it. This applies to so many people it’s crazy. I have friends who start blogs and wonder why 3 months down the road, they still get 10 visitors a day and are not making any money. It’s because they suck at writing which is mostly a result of sucking at the subject they write about.
2. Work Out What You Rock At
You rock at something. I’m really excellent at notebook games, probably because I now do it for a living as my blog is on autopilot. I’m also really knowledgeable about health and food, I’ve spent the last 2 years testing things on myself. This would work amazingly as a blog. Giving all my pointer on what’s worked and what hasn’t. The point is, I could talk about it because I’ve lived it. Find something you could write about that you have lived.
3. Learn How We Want To Read
I’m no expert at writing but I do know how to write posts that get crazy amounts of traffic. It’s simple, people want to read fantastic content. It’s not just fantastic content though. I find the most successful way to lay out content, is to make it simple to scan. People don’t want to read fluff, they want to see 1000 words and know straight away that the top 10 alkaline foods are. Not to read 1000 words to find out something they could of done in 100 words. But it’s not that simple…
This is how you do it. Example of part of a post:
1. Lemons are Alkaline
They have all these incredible benefits, this is also fantastic in rank you may want to know.
Repeat 9 times.
So in the end it’s two ways in one. One way so people can skim and find the 10 alkaline foods and another way which has more in rank on each food for those who want all the in rank. You see, for the margin of people, they just want to know which foods to buy at the super market, but, their is a percent that want more. A lot of people would reckon lemons aren’t alkaline and would judge your whole article on the fact that, they don’t want to take your word for it. The paragraph that comes after it clarifies why in fact it is and how to add it to your diet to improve your alkaline/acid balance.
4. Check Over Your Writing
I suck at spelling and grammar. But I make an effort. No doubt everyplace in this article I have made a mistake. Probably many mistakes. But I’ve made a excellent effort to make it easily readable.
It’s really obvious when someone hasn’t read what they have written. This spoils the article because someone is trying to read it and they keep getting stopped to work out what you meant by what you wrote. A fantastic example of someone who needs an editor is Daily Mail Online. I read their site often, it’s a fantastic way to distract yourself from work. Often I find myself working out what they have written, I also notice in the observations, I’m not alone in the frustration of reading their articles. I presume these articles are written by interns or outsourced to country’s where English isn’t their first foreign language. Getting either of these people to write isn’t the problem, the problem is that the editor doesn’t take the 5 minutes to go over an article before they hit publish, that’s the problem!
5. Call It Something Exciting
When I Google, I always choose the sites that wrote top lists about the subject? Why? Because it saves me time and it’s simple to digest. You already know that because I’ve wrote over a 1000 words about it already. But the point is, 10 Top Alkaline Foods stands out more than Top Alkaline Foods. I reckon this is because you know what your going to get, unlike the other post which could be one of those dreadful content posts that I can’t skim.
Putting that aside, It’s also so valuable for marketing your article. A fantastic title, makes people want to read. You most likely have bought a book just by judging the front cover, the same applies to a post title. Here’s a few suggestions for post titles.
- Top 20 Ways To Include More Alkaline Foods In Your Diet
- 20 Most Influential Alkaline Food Bloggers
- 10 Ways The Alkaline Diet Will Make You In excellent health
- 7 Steps To Going Alkaline in 7 Days
- 4 Tip To Help You Feel In excellent health Today and Every Day From Now On
Hope this gives you something to reckon about. Let me know in the observations how your going to improve your next blog post.