A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n
Blogging can be a right royal pain in the backside for many people who are short of ideas and pushed for time so I have put together a short list of things to help. Everyone will have different opinions on how to write the perfect blog but if you follow these five easy steps I think you will come pretty close.<\/p>\n
Step 1: Decide on a theme<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Blogging isn\u2019t just about how often you do it or even how many words; it\u2019s more about what you are going to offer someone.<\/p>\n People read blogs for 2 reasons.<\/p>\n 1. Because they are interested in the subject<\/p>\n 2. Because it will educate them. (This is why \u2018top tips\u2019 and \u2018how to guides\u2019 go down so well.)<\/p>\n So make sure you have a think about what you are blogging about and why. Then decide if anybody wants, needs or has to know about it.<\/p>\n Step 2: Make it personal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Your blog should be a mini opinion article and should always reflect what you think and why (within reason.) The more human the voice the more chance you have of someone actually reading it from top to bottom.<\/p>\n Step 3: First impressions are everything<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It is really important to give your blog a strong title. If readers take a glance over the title and get bored they won\u2019t read on.<\/p>\n If the title is catchy, poses a questions or offers something to the reader then they are likely to get hooked.<\/p>\n Step 4: Keep it short and sweet<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Nobody wants to read a blog that rambles on for pages and pages. Keep your blogs to the point and as short as possible whilst still making them interesting and informative. It sounds like a challenge and it is often easier to write a long story than a short one but once you have written a few they will flow easily<\/p>\n Step 5: Brag about it<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Once you have written your blog make sure you shout about it from the rooftops!<\/p>\n Social media is the best, easiest and cheapest (it\u2019s free) way to do this. Facebook it, LinkedIn it, Google+ it, Tweet it (don\u2019t forget to #hashtag the key themes and the word #blog) even Instagram it if you want! But make sure you tell everyone that needs to know.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web. Blogging can be a right royal pain in the backside for many people who are short of ideas and pushed for time so I have put together a short list of things to help. Everyone will have different opinions on how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,400],"tags":[242,130,102,104,107,123,19,74,35,14,24,103],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-marketing","category-marketing","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-content","tag-effective-web-content","tag-facebook","tag-give-the-dog-a-bone","tag-marketing-tips","tag-online-marketing","tag-seo","tag-twitter","tag-web-design","tag-website-content"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shutterstock_230245711.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givethedogabone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}