In this article you find your guide on how to write your first blog post.
As a Blogger you must probably have known that writing articles is necessary. Nevertheless, article marketing is one of the greatest technique in growing your blogging career.
Therefore, knowing how to write an effective and net leading blog posts can make this a piece of cake for you.
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How to write your first blog post.
Table of contents
- Topic
- Find the right keyword
- Title tag/headline
- Mega description
- Body: unique content, keyword contained, paragraphing, images, videos, links(internal and external), etc.
- Conclusion
TOPIC
To write and outstanding article, you first of all have to decide on what you are going to write about. This is the first step in writing blog posts =your topic.
You can get your topics in different ways. It may be from your interest, that is the topic you are interested about.
It may also be from what your readers may want to read. Know your readers, try as much as possible to know what they may want to read next.
What are the challenges the most of the people face. This may be to solve your readers problems and or to teach or update them about something new.
Sometimes you will come up with a good topic from the comments. When you stay on active chat with your readers. You will definitely come up with something you will have to answer them through blog post and so.
Choose a good topic and work on it.
FIND THE RIGHT KEYWORDS
After picking up a good topic find the right keywords. Your keyword is simply what you are trying to tell search engines what your article is all about and the search engines will use your keywords to rank you in the SERPs.
Finding the right keyword will help you rank faster and higher on the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). This process of finding the right keyword is as simple as goggle searching for keyword research tools and there are different alternative tools to choose from.
With the keyword research tool you should be able to come up with the best keyword you are to focus on. That is by finding the keyword that have high search volume with fewer or lower competitors.
Know that this keyword you pick is what you are going to rank for. Avoid using keywords that the stronger websites like Wikipedia, goggle, etc use.
These websites have been on existence for long and have high domain authorities. It is simply disappointing to compete with them. Rather use a similar and long tail keywords to rank on the Search Engine Result Pages faster.
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TITLE TAG/HEADLINE
This is the title of your blog post. What your readers see first before any other thing on your page. Your headline is simply what discrib the whole page.
Your page will be avoiding if it have the wrong title on the header.
Your keyword is the first title you have but not always enough. Some keywords don't make sense when they stand alone. Or maybe don't make the desired impact that will captivate your readers.
Adding some additional information on the keywords makes it more professional.
For example, if my keyword is "Cook fried rice at home" I think it doesn't make a good and complete sense for me. I will like to improve it by adding some words or phrases at the beginning or at the end.
For example: "Cook fried rice at home step by step" or "how to cook fried rice at home step by step" or "how to cook fried rice at home for beginners".
Just make your title something sensitive and attractive and it is good like that.
However, I recommend putting your keywords at the beginning of your titles each time you write a blog post like on the first example above. That is the best technique in writing a good SEO friendly titles.
Mega discription
Describe your whole page in some few possible words like two to three sentences with 150 to 160 characters in all.
Your mega description is important. Your title is not enough sometimes, mega description is needed to get clicks too. And your Page's title and mega description are good in attracting more clicks and likely more traffic.
Much especially tell your visitors what to expect in the article from the mega description.
A good Meg description should be something like this: "You can cook fried rice at home even if it's your first time. You can start by gathering the ingredients in place and following this simple steps."
Your visitors will definitely find it hard to skip this if are really looking for place to learn how to cook a fried rice at home. Just make your mega description more attractive and should contain your focus keyword like the one above. Simple!
BODY
This is where the real work is but with constantly practicing writing more articles you will find it simpler as it is what you already know well.
Now gather enough resources because don't forget you will have to make your content very qualitative and unique at the same time.
This uniqueness is what your visitors can't find elsewhere. And what the search engine is definitely interested on.
People Don't like seeing the same information in all pages. They probably may need more information or a different approach or an idea, technique, solution, etc for something.
The extent of the uniqueness and the quality of your article will determine the probability of getting more readers, high ranking, comments, like, follows, shares, etc.
KEYWORD CONTAINED
You need to place your keywords around all the content body. Starting from the Title, mega description, Body, images/videos and conclusion.
This technique will help search engines in ranking your pages. However, don't overdo it by placing it anyhow. Placing your keywords can increase or decrease you.
Place it naturally. That is to say, you should go along with your keywords as you write your article. Don't place it where they don't make good sense or are not important.
However, don't forget that search engines need your keywords to rank you in the SERP. So if your article is around 800 to 1000 words, I recommend putting your keywords four to five times is ok.
PARAGRAPHING
As you read this article what is your comment about the paragraphs appearance. If you say they are short in nature you are right.
A shorter paragraphs are simple to read and therefore more attractive. Much especially, the paragraph with simple sentences and straight to the points get more time reading than those that are long with long sentences and too formal.
Paragraph with two to three if necessary four simple sentences is ok. Let every point have its own simple paragraph. However, don't make it too short to inform.
IMAGES AND VIDEOS
It is good to include images and videos where necessary for SEO. That will mean a lot to your readers trust me.
Much especially, when you support your teachings or tutorials with simple images and videos which describe the process it is easier to understand by your readers.
The Alt text also help search engines in ranking pages too.
When you place your keywords in the Alt text carefully will tell search engines there are more materials in the page in relation to that particular keyword.
In every post editor or probably some where close you will find an option to give more details for the images and the videos you upload. This is by giving it caption, title, Alt text, etc.
Your caption is displayed under the image and the Alt text (alternative text) gives more details when the image can't load or didn't load at the time it is seen. This is among what search engine use to fetch your images in the image searches.
LINKS (internal and external links)
Linking is one of the important aspect of given more page authority to your pages. Much especially linking both internally and externally.
Internal links are hyperlinks directed to pages at the same domain. That is to say linking to relevant pages that are in the same domain with the current page.
When you write your article, there are possibly some articles that are related to the one at hand on the same domain that you may want to recommend or give reference with.
If you put their links there, you are simply doing internal linking.
This gives more page authority, help search engines to find your pages and index them faster through the already indexed pages.
External links on the other hand are hypherlinks that point to pages on different domain.
When you write and article and probably want to recommend someone's article to your readers or some pages that are not in the same domain with the current page it is simply external linking.
CONCLUSION
Every good article should have a conclusion. This may be directly or indirectly.
Conclusion is a good way to talk to someone you thought. You can use it to remind them about what they just read or get their feedback.
You can use it to call them to an action. That is to motivate them to use the information they received or take it home.
You can use it to introduce new topic or tell them about your new project etc.
I know you have many things to do with your conclusion.
However, it is sometimes good to request a feedback. This will help you in knowing how effective your articles are and probably how to improve.
Congrats on following this simple how to write your first blog post -step by step for beginners tutorial. I hope you have got something here.
I know your first or next article will be great. Don't forget to use this steps consistently until you get familiar with it.
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