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How to Create a Great Blog Post

Taking Your Writing Skills to the Next Level

By Ben WPublished 7 years ago 3 min read
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Crafting a great blog post is not easy but it can do wonders for your business or marketing efforts if you put enough hard work into it and follow a couple of steps. When you do blogging well, your marketing will also improve along with your SEO optimization and ability to build traffic, and a bigger audience for your blog. When you capture the interest of your audience, it’s likely that they will be back for more views and visits into the future. By getting them to like your blogging, you’re likely to have both new and repeat customers.

Having a Target Audience

As a blogger for your own website or your company, you need to realize that your blog has to be specific to a certain niche. It’s impossible to target everybody by writing about five or ten different topics. It would be best to instead focus on a particular topic that you or your business is interested in promoting and compile a number of blog posts, which focus on a target audience. Having a buyer persona in mind for your business will go a long way to creating more customers of your products as well as more visitors to the website.

Topic and Title First

Before you start to put down all of your thoughts into one coherent blog post, it would be best to focus generally on what your general topic will be first and then narrow down what kind of specific points you want to make for this post. After coming up with the topic, you’ll be able to think of some supporting ideas that could lead to some body paragraphs that will be consistent with the overall topic. Besides the topic, you should have the name of your blog post title down first so you’ll know what to aim for afterward in terms of your writing focus. Once you have the title and the general topic down, you’ll be able to move on to brainstorming your content.

Organize Your Thoughts into Paragraphs

After the topic and the title of the blog post are settled, you can then move on to putting your thoughts down into the introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion. You should brainstorm and create a rough draft of your blog post before you decide to publish the post. After getting your rough draft done, you’ll need to edit the post or have someone else do that before you submit the final version of the blog post. It’s important to remember that you should be able to back up your argument with supporting ideas. You should also re-state the topic of the blog post in the introduction so that your audience will know what you’re going to be focusing on.

Creating a blog post that is interesting and well written is not an easy task. However, in order to gain more traffic to your website and improve your marketing prospects, you really have to spend a good amount of time crafting good blog posts in order for your business to succeed. Take each blog post seriously because it could mean the difference between success and failure.

Before you click on the 'submit' button, it's important to double and triple check your blog post for any grammar or punctuation mistakes. If you want people to take your writing seriously, you need to put in the time and effort necessary to edit and proofread each and every blog post that you publish. The hard work should pay off if you take these necessary steps to create a great blog post.

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Ben W

Ben helps students from around the world to improve their English language skills. Ben enjoys traveling around the world, developing his writing abilities, and reading good books.

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