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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

How to Write a Better Blog Post?

When you have decided to blog either as a source of residual income or just as a hobby, you need to know how to write blog posts. No matter what your motives are, the blog posts have to be interesting. If this is not the case, then your blog is going to be a failure.

Writing blog posts is a process which needs to be carefully thought and acted. You will have to start by selecting the niche. Niche will be the most important thing. It will help you to write better as you will be narrowing the topic and will be targeting a specific audience.

Now you need to choose the exact topic by conducting a research. This research will play a very important role. You will have to decide about the topic and the angel from which you will have to write and all this information will be collected from research data. The research data will also give you the access to the liking and the desire of the readers. You will be in a position to know what your readers want to read about. You can base your research on many things. You should also make sure that you are reading the feedback of the readers via the email, the comments and through the other methods. This feedback will give you good ideas to write about. You can also search in the forums and can come up with the different ideas what people are talking about and what they are interested in. Once you have done all that, you can go on and select a few topics to write about. You can then decide about the one topic that you want to write this week.

While writing the blog posts, you will have to look at the topic and will have to decide about the style which you are going to use in the blog posts. You can choose conversational style or can go for a formal style. This depends on the topic that you are going to write about. You will also have to know whether using the bullets and numbering would be better or going for simple 6-8 paragraph blog post would be better. Once you have decided about these things you will have to research the material for the blog post.

While researching for the material, you have to understand what you need to research. Write down all the things that you are going to discuss and then go online and look for the solid facts and information regarding that. Always verify the information so that you are not guilty of providing disinformation to the readers.

Now that you have the material and you are all set to write the blog posts, you need to understand that you are writing for the readers. While writing the blog posts, just keep the fact in mind that the blog posts are for readers and you should write the things that they are interesting to read.

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