Many a time you visit some blog, you discover that the blogpost/content is very poor, you begin to ask yourself, what da f**k is this dude still doing blogging?
As the day goes by, there are massive influx of people to the blogosphere who are only after the money, lacking the passion for blogging. By so doing, they write and publish trash on their blog.
You begin to see some of them complaining of very low traffic saying for example, “i have pagerank 3, my alexa rank is below 100k, i update my blog everyday, i research and use keywords on my post … Why the low traffic?”
Must Read Why Pagerank, Link Building Sucks And Content Is Still King
If you must be successful as a blogger, focus on writing unique and quality content ‘cos Content is king.
Below are essential tips that will help you write that stunning, quality and captivative post that will make visitors keep visiting your blog and at the same time, get decent amount of traffic from search engines.
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Blog About What You Know
This is one aspect most bloggers are missing it. After deciding that you want to go into blogging, next is for you to think of the area you have vast knowledge of or passion for and blog on it. For example, if you are a health practitioner, it is only ideal you blog on health related matters.
Warning: Don’t ever blog on what you don’t know or have passion for. -
Write For Humans Not Search Engines
Most bloggers today are writing for search engines and not for readers(humans). Instead of investing their time writing informative and quality content and They spend it doing keyword research(not that it isn’t good) and finding high paying adsense keywords. they end up publishing rubbish post stack with keywords.
With the constant change of google and othe search engine algorithm, those site will rank poorly in serp.
When writing a blog post, write as if you talking and expressing your mind about a subject to somebody. -
Write Unique and quality Blogpost
Most people are fond of copying and publishing people’s post. This is the fastest way to kill your blog.
You don’t expect users to always visit your site when all your post are recycled post, and lack any new and unique information. Be ready to surprise your readers with quality articles and by so doing, you gradually building your site fan base. -
Be Careful Constructing Your Post Title
Most bloggers don’t always take their time in constructing their post title. The title of your blog post go a long way to improving your post click through rateCTR.
Before choosing a title for your post, below are things you need to know:-
* Your title should be very descriptive about the post.
* Include your post keywords in the title so as to receive decent traffic from search engines when such term is queried.
* Make your title controversial at times and don’t forget to give your reasons.
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Write In Details
Avoid writing very short blogpost without in-depth analysis and description of what you talking about. When writing, always explain and let readers comprehend what you trying to pass across to them. Remove any unnecessary words or phrase and please, don’t sacrifice quality for quantity.
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Keep Words Simple
Always keep your blog post words simple and avoid using complex words and jargon. The aim of writing is for users to read and understand what you’re saying but when your post are always hard to understand, users will leave your site and seek for alternatives. it would’ve been better you didn’t write it.
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Proof read
After writing your blog post, next is to proof read – examine your post and correct any mi-spelt words, check if it well punctuated. Proofread at least two(2) times before deciding to publish.
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Take A Break Before Publishing
After proof reading, don’t hit the publish button immediately, instead take a break and rest, after some time, read the post again and you may just get an idea to add to the post. Then proof read again before publishing.
Conclusion
If you are a blogger or a freelance writer, and you haven’t been obeying the above simple rule, it high-time you started obeying. A blog filled with low quality and incomprehensible content will gradually go into extinction.
If you disagree with any of my points above or have any contribution, we’ll love to hear from you.