Monday, November 23, 2009

Blog Content is the Most Valuable

By Randy Roedl

After you've picked out your theme and have inserted the wordpress plug-ins you want to use then you need to begin composing content for your blog. With no articles there's no value to the viewers so make sure you add together a beneficent amount of posted articles to your blog in the beginning. Typically I will spend the first week writing three posted articles a day and submitting them to social bookmarking websites. This will allow you to have roughly twenty posted articles on your blog and all of them should be indexed from the social bookmarking.

Twenty posted articles is a good amount of content to start off with and after the first week you can begin writing only one post a day. This will give you more time to market and promote your blog to the masses of people out there looking for information. We'll talk more about this later in the guide as for right now I want to talk about the content you write.

Either you or a writer will be doing the content creation for your blog and you'll need to decide this on a few factors. You'll need to make sure you have time each day to write a blog post and you'll also need to have some writing capabilities. If you have neither then you might want to consider hiring a writer for your blog. Of course this costs money and takes away from money you could be making so if you can I would write your own blog posts. This way you can become more involved with your blog as well since you'll be writing the blog posts.

Don't expect just to throw up short meaningless written posts on your web blog and expect the traffic to start pouring in. You need to add valuable content to your web blog that isn't found elsewhere often. If you just regurgitate what everyone else talks about then you'll find it difficult to get readers since they read it elsewhere also.

You need to possess content that people can't find and is valuable to them. Your web blog written posts should be anywhere from 300-1000 words a piece depending on what you're going to talk about that day. Some topics will require more detailed written posts while others can remain short and to the point. Make sure you always offer some value in your written posts though. For instance you can offer many things in your written posts and you should focus on only one per post. You can write about news for the day, an educational topic or an opinionated topic. You can also write about how your day is going and whatever else you want at the bottom of your written posts. This will help for the people reading your web blog to relate to you. If the people can relate to your life then they will typically stick around and become a regular reader and contributor to your web blog.

Once you have the initial surge of content indexed and ranking in the search engines you'll start to see some search engine traffic. If you have chosen good topics then the number of visitors could be very large and it's consistent. Your content is what will make you money online as a blogger so make sure you spend long enough writing your posts. Keep things like titles and keywords in mind when you're writing the post so that it's optimized for your needs.

Writing is easy if you open your mind a little bit and once you start writing on a topic the posted articles will begin to flow out of your mind. It's always smart to write a handful of posted articles, I recommend a week worth and keep them stored away in a document. This way if you get sick or go on vacation for a week you can load the pre-written posted articles to your blog and have them posted articles on the same schedule that you usually post them at. This way you don't miss any days of adding posted articles to your blog as it could result in lost viewers if you do miss writing for a few days.

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