7 steps for writing a blog article

You must have tried different methods to write your articles. We would like to share some unique writing ideas with you. Names are some what neologism and are used for other purpose. Whatever, you might like the idea.

Precontemplation

The earliest stage of change is known as precontemplation. We will think it as the wish to write something in your blog.

Contemplation or Inspiration for writing

If you open a blank write a new post, you will take lot of time to write the things. So you need inspiration. You can get inspiration from:

• Digg
• Facebook or Tweeter
• Forums; from people’s questions
• Similar niche of blog: For example, after reading this article you might want to write in your way how to write an article in an organized way
• Magazines
• Newspapers

This is the scaffold. Write these ideas in a Notepad or similar kind of Text editor, including what illustrations you would like to include.

Preparation for publication

Planned things will be materialized now.

Here is where you will get the final form of the articles. You will nicely join the bits of informations written in the Notepad, format it with sub headings, points (bullets), write the excerpt; enrich with keywords, write the meta description, optimize the images etc. Then save it as draft. In other word, it is a ready to get published article now.

So, SEO is an important part in this stage; you might need to find better keywords.

Publication

Publication is dependent on you. When you want, or find the best time for publication and publish it. Your other article may be in preparation for publication stage. We keep around 20 articles always ready to get published.

Promotion

You may think that just give the button a click to publish the story is over. Make no mistake. You have to publish the articles either automatically or manually in the social networks.

Promotion is non ever ending process. For example, look we have linked our older relevant articles with the texts in this post. This is how we are promoting our old articles.

Maintenance

For few posts, it needs to be updated; either due to:

• New information which has replaced the old concept or information
• New ideas either from your head or via comments
• You found a typographical error or grammatical mistake
• Link to some website is dead now, because the website has died
• You need to add some keywords, craft the title or meta description for better search engine optimization (SEO)

Estimating the return of investment

This is important. How must have to understand which article or categories fetches more traffic from the search engines. You need to give more importance to them. You can think as traffic as money indirectly through the revenue gained through advertisements. We wrote an article about return of investment ago; you might be interested to read it too.