Make no mistake, writing for a living is a grind. Though many people have a romantic vision of bloggers and blog-writing, the reality is that writing blog content day in day out for years at a time is a taxing endeavor. Indeed, blogging for that long of a time period requires more than mere “inspiration;” it takes a lot of hard graft too. To wit, coming up with fresh content for a site when you’ve written extensively for is one of the most challenging aspects of modern blogging. Here, we’ll provide a guide for bloggers in the grip of writer’s block and explain how you can create exciting content that strikes a chord with your readers:
6 Ways to Keep Your Blog Bustling With Fresh and Awesome Content
Blog sections are a dime a dozen. At this point in time, everyone and their grandparents know how important blogging is to get a name out on the web.
However, while there are millions upon millions of blog sections, very few knock it out of the park when it comes to the quality of the content. As many bloggers quickly realize, getting things up and running is only the tip of the spear. Once you hit a wall with topics, the bulk of the battle involves keeping a consistent flow of fresh content that adds something new and substantial to the conversation. [Read more…]
Create Trivia Quizzes and Grow Your Blog
Did you know trivia quizzes can help you increase engagement by 500%? In this write-up we take a look at how trivia quizzes can help you increase engagement and sales for your business. Before we move over to that let us take a look at what trivia quizzes are. [Read more…]
5 Steps to Repurpose Your Blog Content into a Presentation
Your blog shouldn’t be just a one and done thing.
Once you’ve written your post and promote it to the right channels, you’re not supposed to just let it settle and collect dust.
If you want to make the most of your posts, you need to find a way to increase the ROI of your blog posts.
There are different ways such as optimizing your post for organic search so Google users will find it in search results. You can also update the information in your post to keep it fresh and increase the chances of ranking it higher for its target keyword.
You’re probably doing these things anyway, so you need a different approach.
Well, how about repurposing your blog content into a presentation?
In this post, you will learn the steps you need to follow to turn your blog post in a slide deck presentation.
Learn why you need to turn your articles into a presentation and the steps you need to follow to get it done. #bloggingtips Click To Tweet
What is Cornerstone Content And Why It’s Important
Making your website accessible and easy to navigate can be the difference between retaining visitors and losing them to other sites. Strong, well-designed cornerstone content is a major factor in keeping traffic on your site and improving your customer experience. This content can also help you improve your SEO, which will boost your place in search results and bring more viewers to your site. If you don’t already have well-written and designed cornerstone content, start today so you don’t miss out on the benefits it can bring to your business. [Read more…]
Here’s Why Your Content is Struggling
When websites and blogs struggle to generate value from the content they publish, it can be difficult to identify the reasons. However, just as any good doctor does when a patient exhibits symptoms of being unhealthy, it’s essential for you to study the signs and identify the root causes of your shortcomings. [Read more…]
Informative Blog Content: Delivering the Big Picture and the Gritty Details
As a blogger, when you sit down to write a post, you have two primary objectives:
- Present the dilemma you’re going to solve and give a top-down view of the big picture.
- Flesh out the details and give specifics in form of answers to the dilemma and the big picture.
In most blog posts, these are the two main steps that need to be focused on. By way of your article’s title and introductory paragraph you need to set forth a foundation, by presenting a problem or a question and then laying it out so that your readers understand exactly the issue your post is going to address. [Read more…]
How to Provide Great Blog Content Without Being Too Salesy
Many marketers start blogs for their company as a way to promote their products or services through another medium. However, as the recent Google updates and overall best practices for search engine optimization and content marketing go, it is best to focus on providing blog posts that are useful and cover industry news instead of trying to sell more products.
Throughout the years, internet users have become smarter and better about finding the information they need and are interested in. Because of this, they are not willing to waste their time looking at overly promotional copy that isn’t teaching them something new or catering to their interests. Because of this, it is time for bloggers to step up their game and start providing great content. Once a website begins to get recognized as a leader in their industry for providing great information through their blog posts, they will start getting more leads and traffic.
Nothing to Blog About: Backlogitis
We all have it. The email inbox reaches 1,000 unread messages like some virtual red flashing light indicator of procrastination. You’ve got 600 tweets to read and 45 DMs to respond to. Your WordPress blog is still version 2.5 and your WordPress Theme only works with WordPress 2.1. The To Do pile on your desk resembles the Leaning Tower of Pisa. You’ve got Netflix movies stacked upon Blockbuster videos past due to return. And your blog is begging for a blog post.
The symptoms are all there.
You have backlogitis. [Read more…]
Nothing to Blog About: Not Every Blog Post Should See the Light of Publish
As mentioned in the last article in Nothing to Blog About, not every idea is worth publishing. Not every blog post is publishable. Not every blog post should see the light of the public eye. And sometimes that type of blog post is stopping us from producing blog content.
I can’t tell you the many hours I’ve spent struggling over a blog post, determined it had value and needed to be published. I’d beat at it, thrash it, rip and tear it apart, only to decide it wasn’t ready, nor was I, to have this ever be published.
Has this happened to you? A blog post you want to publish sits in your drafts or stares at you from your blog screen screaming, “NO! NOT YET!”
Are you listening? [Read more…]
