If you want to earn money by blogging you may be interested in hearing the answer to the question, “How to Write for Blogs?”
Today I am going to give you 5 practical tips how you can write for your blogs to increase your traffic, engagement, search engine rankings and revenue.
Let’s go!
1.Think That You Are Writing to One Person
This will help your reader to read your texts. Give them the feeling that there are just two persons, You and the reader.
One successful online entrepreneur Jermaine Griggs gives piano courses on the Internet. He teaches tens of thousands of people from all around the world. Still he can give the personal feeling in his blog posts and video training.
He says for example, “Lay back. Relax. Just you and me.” and then comes the piano training.
Is not a coincidence that this guy is a millionaire.
He is teaching a huge amount of people but still he gives the feeling that there is only he and the student.
Don’t think that you are writing to 1,000 people but think that you are writing to only one person.
It will make your blog more personal.
2.Think That You Are Writing for Your Friend
If you want to earn money with your blog you must be helping people and providing them something valuable. Some beginners in affiliate marketing make the mistake of always trying to sell something without providing any important value.
One useful trick to help your mind to create more useful ideas is to think how would you help your friend. How would you write to your best friend?
Would you sell him/her all the time and try to push all your products in front of him? If you would do that I may ask, how long are you waiting for your friendship to last?
Everyone loves friendly people. People love it when someone helps and does something for them.
3.Give Answers
We love it when someone gives valuable answers for our questions.
For example, I am thinking sometimes questions like, “How to increase the results in the gym faster?” “How to win in chess?” “How to be a better disciple of Jesus?”
If someone comes and tells me the answers for that kind of questions I’m more than willing to hear.
BUT
I am not willing to hear invaluable answers. And neither are other people. So be sure that when you are providing answers that they really answer the questions and give something that isn’t so obvious.
Of course, sometimes “the obvious answers” are good to say out loud because we humans tend to forget the important things. Most of the motivational speeches are just repeating “the obvious things” that people tend to forget in the middle of their busy lives.
4.Think About Your Audience
This may sound obvious but still some people tend to forget this one. If your blog is about dog training, don’t talk about your journey in Mexico. Okay, you can tell a story about your journey if you can relate it somehow to your actual topic which is dog training.
If you can tell captivating stories, they are always nice! But don’t talk about the subjects that are not related to your website.
For example, my blog is about earning money online and everything related to that topic. I will not write here the articles about language learning or the gym even though they are my other interests. My audience would be bored.
Instead, I concentrate on the topics that are relevant to “make money online” -subject.
5.Be Straight
Have you ever went to the blog post where the introduction seems to last too long and you just get bored and click for the next post.
I’ve experienced it many times.
Probably the writers are trying to build the momentum but many times the person on the Internet is just finding for the quick answers and you have 10 seconds to convince that you have what he/she is looking for.
- Don’t write introductions of 300 words!
- Go straight to your point.
- Give clear instructions and points
- Give conclusion
Conclusion
Here are 5 my practical tips on How to Write for Blogs
1.Think That You Are Writing to One Person
2.Think That You Are Writing for Your Friend
3.Give Answers
4.Think About Your Audience
5.Be Straight
I hope that these tips will help you to become a better blogger and the writer.
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Ah, I’ve always been a frustrated writer.
Thank you for these tips! They will definitely help me in the future. I plan on creating my very own blog but the main problem I have is that I don’t know what content I should post. I am very into music production, photography, and digital art but I kind of also want to produce other non related stuff. What do you think? Should I make a general blog all about myself or should I pick a niche? Or! Should I just make different blogs (which is a bit hard probably because it could be time consuming and stressful to handle).
I highly recommend that you just pick one niche and build your blog around it. Please, follow the Wealthy Affiliate training to learn to build a successful blog and make money with it.
I will connect with you inside the community and help you to succeed. 🙂
Hi Roope, you should write the same style as you write a comment I think. Like as I now write in person to you 🙂 I saw a couple of good ideas about writing the other day. They said, keep the same form, don’t jump from we to you. And also, to be sure the topic is clear in a split second. When people don’t see right away if it is the answer they are looking for, they already clicked the back button.
By the way, great website 🙂
Loes
Great tips Loes. You are right that writing in person is definitely powerful. Yes, jumping from we to you can sometimes confuse the things but if it’s done carefully, it’s not a problem. Going straight to the point and making the things clear is also important as you say.
Thank you 🙂
Great tips and an outstanding website, Roope!!!
Very impressive. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much for the encouragement PJ. I definitely will keep up the great work and improve all the time 😉
Some really good food for thought here. I have a blog but sometimes it’s hard to remember to write to one person. This is a really valuable idea. Sometimes you get bogged down in the facts and stuff and you can lose the personal connection.
I will remember to always consider this when I write.
Thanks!
Thank you for the comment Ruth.
I learned the idea of writing to only one person from Wealthy Affiliate’s webinar. I have seen that most of the successful entrepreneurs use it a lot.
I wish you great success! 🙂
-Roope