Most often we are bemused with thoughts like ... What topic do I blog about, how do I write my posts that I have dedicated readers coming back for more...I have listed some points below that I think would help you when blogging.
You would have chosen a general topic for your blog and select a title for your blog that best suites the blog's central idea. So your posts should revolve around this general topic in a manner that is useful for the readers.
Ground work for your blog topic:
First and foremost, I hope most of you would have chosen a blog topic of your interest..something that you have experience in or are good at, or something that you would love to talk about.
A ground work of the topic, you choose to write, is very important. Let's say, you choose to have a blog on "Pets". The categories that you can blog about could include:
1. Different kinds of pets and their food habits.
2. Keeping your pets clean.
3. Tips on how to bond well with your pets.
4. Common pet diseases and how would you deal with it.
5. Some uncommon diseases and some proven effective remedies.
6. Pet accessories ...etc to list a few
You can then pick one topic to blog on.
Now that you have a topic, you can then search the net for some useful information and do a comprehensive reading on your blog topic, to enhance your knowledge. You might even want to note down the new facts while reading, so that you can incorporate them when you blog.
You can visit some discussion forums and try finding out some concerns that are in the discussion thread - this could provide you with valuable information.
Now that you have the material about you topic, you can write your blog post with these ideas combined with the knowledge that you already have. When writing a blog, keep asking yourself... Have my readers already read this stuff before? Will it be useful? Am I offering soemthing new to read?
Original content
Hence it is very important that you have original content in your posts. Please do not copy and paste contents from other sources. Because most search engines crawl the web and list them in search results, based on originality and genuine content.
If you have read some piece of information somewhere on the net and copied it to your post, then its very obvious that, like you, some one else also might have read the same article... Imagine how many redundant copies of the same material would then be circulating in the net!!! One such redundant blog post is enough to scare your readers away!
Coming back to your "Pets" blog, once you have written the blog post yourself, with all the ground work and ideas that you have gained, the next step is to further amend it. How?
You search the discussion forums for your current topic. You would definitely get an idea of what is being discussed in there and what people are looking forward to read. Say, you are blogging about "Common dog diseases and remedies", then you search the discussion forums for similar thread posts. Suppose you find one concern on "fleas" and you do not find any useful information on "fleas" either in the forum or related forums...there now, you have another strong topic to add to your blog! :)
You search the net on "flea control" and add it to your post. You continue this strategy until you are satisfied that you have a good number of "dog diseases and their suggested remedies" to post. You can garnish this further by adding what you have learnt from your practical experience with your pets.
Once your blog post is ready, you must do a spell check. :)
After publishing the post, you can then join the same discussion forum where you identified the concern on fleas posted by a member, and join the forum with your suggestion of a solution... mention your blog link for others to see! This way you even get targeted readers to your blog posts!
Please note, that your blog readers might be from any age group, hence you might want to maintain a friendly tone and approach when you blog.
Happy blogging!
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