How to Write Your First Blog Post

There is nothing more exciting than planning to write your first blog post. You want to make sure that you have included everything, but you don’t know what’s missing because you’ve never done this before.

Don’t worry. I’ll take you step by step as you plan, research and write your first blog post from beginning to end.

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First Blog Post Examples

Your first instinct is to find a first blog post examples that you can follow. This isn’t a good idea and I’ll tell you why. When bloggers first start out they are learning the do’s and don’ts of writing a blog post. Any many mistakes happen in the early days.

By referring to first blog posts examples, you will be following a mediocre style. Instead, look at blog posts from bloggers that have high volume traffic and go over their style.

Read on to learn how to write and style your first blog post.

Essential Plugins that will Help You Write Your first Blog Post

Prior to deciding on a topic to write about, you will want to install a couple of plugins that will help you write about your topic.

Some of these include:

• Yoast
• Keysearch or any keyword research tool

We will get into how these plugins will assist you in writing your first blog post later.

In addition, you will want to plan out your content using a paper notebook or a digital planner like Goodnotes.

Digital planners are a great way to stay organized and plan your content months in advance.

Get a FREE Content Planner Template for Goodnotes which is printable.

Choose a Topic

Choosing a topic shouldn’t be that difficult when you are at the point of writing your first post. This shouldn’t be very hard since your entire blog should be niche specific and based on a subject that you know very well.

Conduct Research

Once you have decided on a topic, it’s time to do your research. You can use any number of applications to do your research, like Google, Artificial Intelligence (AI), keyword research.

Your research should also include questions that are most asked about the topic so that you can plan out your post with different sections and headings.

Create an Outline

Once you have conducted your research, create an outline to organize your thoughts and ideas. Plot out where you will place blocks such as images, a table of contents, body, a FAQ and a summary.

Write the Post

Use your outline to write the post in clear and concise language. Include relevant images with alt attribute tags for screen readers.

Take care to proofread and correct spelling and grammatical errors.

Optimize for SEO

Use keyword research tools available online that can help you find keywords related to your topic, such as Keysearch, Google AdWords Keyword Planner, SEMrush, Ahrefs, etc. These tools can provide you with data on search volume, competition, and other metrics that can help you identify keywords that are likely to drive traffic to your website.

Analyze the keywords that your competitors are using on their websites and in their content. You can use tools like SEMrush and Ahrefs to see which keywords your competitors are ranking for.

Look at search suggestions by typing a query into a search engine. It will give you suggestions for other similar keywords. These suggestions can be a good source of inspiration for new keywords.

Use Google Trends. This tool allows you to see how popular a particular keyword is over time. It also shows related keywords and topics, and how they are trending.

Use Google Autocomplete to shows you the most common search queries that start with the letters or words you’ve typed. This can give you an idea of the keywords people are using to search for content related to your topic.

Consider Long-Tail Keywords. Long-tail keywords are longer, more specific phrases that are less competitive but can still drive targeted traffic to your site. They tend to have lower search volume, but they can be a great way to target niche audiences.

Once you’ve identified a list of keywords, you should prioritize them based on their relevance, search volume, and competition level, so that you can focus your efforts on the keywords that are most likely to drive traffic to your site.

Optimize your post for search engines by including these keywords in your title, meta description, and throughout the post.

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Add Internal and External Links

Internal linking is very important because it helps search engines understand the structure of your website and the relative importance of your pages. Internal linking can also improve navigation for website visitors by finding more relevant content.

It allows search engines to more easily crawl and index your site by following the links on your pages.

Internal linking also helps to keep visitors on your website longer which increases ad revenue.

External linking is important as well particularly if you are an affiliate you can link to products to make sales. You might also link to external websites if you are referring to their content in your blog post and you want to give credit to the author.

More importantly, try to get external links pointing to your blog post as well as this helps to build domain authority.

Publish and Share Your Post

Publish your post on your blog and share it on social media and other relevant platforms to reach a wider audience.

Share your blog posts on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. This can help increase traffic to your website and also expose your content to a wider audience.

Send email newsletters to your subscribers including the links to your latest blog posts.

Share your posts on relevant forums and discussion boards, industry-specific websites and blogs and business listing sites like Yelp, Google My Business, Manta, etc.

Engage With Your Audience

Respond to comments and feedback from your audience to start a conversation and build a community around your blog. Be prepared for your first negative comment and be humble in your response.

Remember that every one is entitled to an opinion even if you don’t agree with it. Try to be kind when you respond to these types of comments.

Google Search Console and Google Analytics

Use Google Search Console and Google Analytics to monitor your post’s performance and make adjustments accordingly.

Conclusion: Writing a blog post can be scary at first, but if you take it a step at a time, you can work your way through creating a well published article. Don’t rush putting a post together as it may take days to fully research and write one blog post.

FREE Content Planner for Goodnotes

Content planning is a great way to organize your content around special events. Use this FREE Content Planner in Goodnotes or print it out and use it the old fashioned way!

There you have it, with these tips you are well on your way to writing the perfect blog post. Until next time…