How to: Make a Blog Post Every Day
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I am sharing from my personal experiences about Blogging and How to Blog better, I learned more from my failures, lots of reading and implementations.
I believe that “Failure is a Great Source of Learning”
Ok, to the point. If you a regular visitor of this blog then you have definitely noticed the consistency of posts updates which has increased since last month of March 2010. I posted 34 articles in last month including one guest post. That means 33 articles in a month I posted all alone.
Posting consistently was a big issue since I started blogging 2 years back but now I think it is no more a problem for me because I found a solution. In this article I will show you how to post consistently on your blog to get the best results.
This can be very helpful for those who manage their blog(s) all alone. However, I am no more alone here.
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Focus on Your Goal
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Think if you are driving without a pre decided destination, where will you finally land? Nowhere! Focus on a Goal is essential everywhere in life so in blogging too. What will you research on? what will you write? Who is going to take advantage of it and finally where it will take you and your blog? Focus and proceed to your Goal, be in your niche and post quality content.
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Confidence
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Self Confidence is like a thermometer that ups and downs with the fluctuating temperature so take it easy, do something to boost your confidence. I used to watch DVDs of Rocky (Balboa) Part 1-2-3 it always encourage me to fight back. Posting every day on a blog is just like a boxing with tough opponent and it need aggressiveness to hit him close and hard. That’s only possible with self confidence.
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Time Management
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Spend your time in doing things which are favorable and also profitable, how many times you get distracted by your twitter mentions and facebook updates while writing a blog post? Be away from all those things which distract you. 24 hrs are not less when planned and executed perfectly. Here you will need Focus and Confidence to utilize your precious time constructively. Make a dead line, be your own boss and start working in your own self made pressure or if failed, get fired yourself.
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Ideas
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Ideas can strike anywhere, anytime. Ideas can also vanish from your mind as soon as it strikes. Grab those ideas somewhere; I catch them tightly in my notebook or in my phone whenever it arrives. Write down that killing blog post idea if it comes while watching your favorite TV show or reading newspaper immediately . Copy it later to your word document and start constructing it into a killing blog post.
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Latest Updates
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Be up-to-date with what’s going on around your blog niche world. Use Google reader, twitter, facebook and alltop to keep the track on your subject of interest. Don’t miss a single useful and even useless looking news. I experienced by my own that most of the online things which we take lightly appears as most useful. Remember Google’s boss once said “Twitter is a poor man’s email”
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Blog Content
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We all have our own ways of writing a blog post. I do in my own way by making important points first, then expanding each points to paragraphs, then re-read all to cut down un necessary sentences, making it short/tight as much as I can and finally selecting relevant pictures and lastly adding a headline.
To prepare a blog post every day, I made two rules.
First, I divide my blog content into 2 categories. Research based content and latest news. While research based content includes random articles, tips, tutorials, opinions and case study, news updates are those breaking stories around social media circle.
Second, I try my best to keep few articles as backup, incase if I get stuck somewhere I still have something to publish that day. I usually write backup articles in weekends or anytime I feel like I have something in my mind ready.
Some more ways to make quality content easily
1) Split 1 post into 2: It works well when you write a lengthy article. Try to break that into two series of each. This will give you 2 ready articles in one attempt.
2) Multiple articles in one time: Say you have 3 blog post ideas, now open up three new word documents and write all points on each page with subject, one by one. When you are done, you will see you prepared structures of 3 articles in one, now you just need to expand each with details. Save all documents and start elaborating it without taking care of spelling, grammar etc. Do the rest later.
3) List: Make a big and useful list of content. Like, I did last month listing 100 most powerful women on twitter. I selected 100 women in less than 10 hrs.
I made list of 100 useful tools bloggers can use to make their personal blog look professional
These are some effective and easy ways to make good content in less time.
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Community Management
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On Twitter your followers are your asset and in blogging it’s your blog feed subscribers and commentators . Don’t lose them; your community is one who will give you everything you want from blogging, self satisfaction, praise, friendship and business. Keep growing your online community stronger every day.
I give time to my friends and online communities as much as I can. Checking my twitter, facebook and blog comments, adding new conversation on facebook, replying to all blog comments and updating with new and informative tweets every day with consistency. One important point which I cannot afford to miss is making relations with other bloggers in your niche, post good comments on their blog, link their blogs in your post, support them and you will be in the company of professionals.
What about you? if you have any ideas or tips to share, please share it with us.
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