Writing a Blog Post isn’t as easy as its said.. Of course theirs a difference between writing some article and clicking the publish button and A Perfect Blog Post. Today while I was surfing through some nice blogs I wondered why not share with my readers How to Write a Perfect Blog Post ? Let’s see what requires A Perfect Post.
An Image in a Post:
No, this is not a dummy post as used for WordPress Themes. For me, an Image is a must for any post you write. Nobody likes boring alphabets crawling all over the computer screen. Image refreshes as well as explains the idea of your Post in a couple of seconds (with the help of title). One image must be there at the top of any Post you write and if you write it long enough. Maybe more than 350-400 words adding another small image in between would be great.
Content is King:
Yup, I know everybody is bored hearing that. But this title describes it the best. The better your content is the more traffic you generate and the longer your readers stay. Let’s say if a user visits your site accidentally or even any of your links followed him here, its your content that will make him decide, Stay, Will come later on or just Go back with no return. Approximately you have 8 seconds to make the viewer believe he really needs to stay.
The first top screen of your blog/web (from where the scrolling starts) is the area where you have to take a lot of care putting links, navigation and your Post. This is the area for the first looks of a new visitor and you’ve to grab him !
Formatting Your Post:
- Use Headings e.g. <h1> to divide your Posts.
- Use Bullet or un-ordered lists for writing Points.
- I prefer don’t use H1 tag in between your Posts. H1 tag is best for main title of your Post only, I recommend use h2 tag for main headings and then fall down to h3 and h4 for sub headings as per their requirement.
- Use Bold, Italic where required or you think should be different from the rest.
- Use blockquotes if you want to quote someone’s saying, a definition or a code, etc.
Watch your Tone:
As discussed above, no doubt Content is King. But don’t follow it so much that your articles become full of boredom. Write some examples of your life add some expressions and feelings to the articles. You can read more about the Writing Tone here.
Write for your Readers as well as Search Engines:
As obvious, everybody wants Search Engine Traffic. But Search Engine Traffic is of no use if a user comes at your web and goes with no return. Write in a way that can make your Readers as well as your Search Engine happy. Enriching your Post with targeted keywords as well as using a perfect tone with them can do the job.
Link Resources:
Readers love resources, link’em at the very end of your Post. Regarding to your topic, link to ebooks, tutorias, some other top articles of the same niche. You can also link to your own written articles on the same web/blog. That can help you promote your old content as well as help your readers read more at your blog.
Indulge your Viewers:
Indulge your readers into discussion. Ask them questions, suggestions or may be put a small poll. For example you write a Post about Twitter, you can ask your readers to add views as well as your twitter IDs to follow at the end of your Post. I’m damn sure if one doesn’t wants to leave a comment, he’s for sure going to leave his Twitter ID. 
Indulge Yourself:
No, It’s not the part of the Article now, its ended above. I’m just here to ask you for Comments if you want to share some suggestions or anything. 
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
You have raised interesting technical points. I wanted to add that above all the technical issues one should write a post with his/her heart. Very important as well to make a perfect post.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Yeah right.. Self Interest or as you say Written by heart is above all and the very first point to be kept in mind !
Glad to see you here and hope to see you again !
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May 2nd, 2009 at 7:11 pm
By times when a blogger tend to concentrate to much on technical issues of course with aim to get more traffic . It tends to make the blogger become traffic – minded and the pleasure to blog flys away with time.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Totally agree on this, I guess slowly and gradually all Bloggers divert towards the aim of more traffic and income. And then they only write for earning and search engines.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Ya true and then the pleasure to blog dies with time . I think this is a debatable issue.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 am
Yeah true.. I guess I’ll have a debate on it.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Great post, Enk
Regarding the images, I’ll usually have an intro paragraph, then put an image, then put the main content. If there is loads of content I’ll put another picture in-content. I just feel it’s important to break the post up so that readers don’t get bored
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May 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Glad you liked it Simon !
I prefer one image as must at the top then add another if your post is long enough !
Yeah totally agree, as We’ve already discussed earlier about images if you remember.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Rocking post Enk.
You have covered everything.
Some people write great posts with no images and bad formating- quite a waste I guess.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 am
Agreed. Presenting your post is so important because people are likely to get bored with nothing to break them up. Even when you write amazing content, unless you can set it up right you're lucky if they read to the end
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May 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Thanks Farrhad, Happy to hear that.
Yeah, I’ve tried to cover each and everything.
Very true, bad formatting and no images make the post bore and dull.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 am
About the formatting, I definitely agree on what tags you should use. I have a short story about that. xD
At Blogussion, we used H2 and H3 for like 80 posts, but we had to go back through each post and change the H2 to H3, and the old H3 to H4. It SUCKED! I'm pretty sure that had some kind of SEO impact, so it was for the best. I think it is smart to put H2 around the sites title, and H1 on the article title.
As for "how to write a perfect blog post" goes, I don't think you can. I mean, perfection is something no one can achieve because there will always be people who don't like the way something is done.
I could go on and on about this, but I think, like beauty, that perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe something can be seen as perfect to one person, but not so much for someone else. Which ultimately makes me ask "is it really perfect?"
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May 3rd, 2009 at 9:50 am
I do agree on your point. There never can be a Perfect thing or something on which everybody agrees. Its a normal phenomenon. But still, I can say "Pretty much Perfect Blog Post" ?
About the tags, I don't remember but somewhere I read H1 are good for Post titles and then use rest of 'em from h2-h6 for headings and sub headings. Btw, I never need to use h5 and h6 tags.
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May 4th, 2009 at 5:18 am
It’s complicated man, but yeah, I guess you can say that!
I used H1 for my article titles, H2 for my site title, H3-H5 for articles, and I never knew H6 existed lol.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Lovely post.. I’m going to even try some of the tips.. I normally don’t place pictures in my postings.. only in my siggie
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May 3rd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Nice to see you here.
Glad to see someone is really going to try those tips.
Come back soon !
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May 4th, 2009 at 2:16 am
I think it’s fine if you leave your “perfectionist” mode/role turned off when you are blogging, personal blogging should be natural.
-Salman
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May 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Yes you can say that, but only in case of Personal Blogging I guess.
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May 4th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Nice post. i do agree with the above comments that “Perfect” can never be achieved for people with different tastes, but I do agree with you that content is truly what matters.
On top of that, I’d say that a blog post should also follow the theme of the blog. That is, if your blog is about tech matters, you can’t write a blog post giving love advice.
Cheers,
Velu
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May 4th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Yeah right, its necessary to stick to the topic, to the niche of your Blog.
Its nice to see you here velu, hope to see again !
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May 7th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Thanks the post erik, it’s true that search engine doesn’t count a picture on a post? I read that on an article.
I think I should put a picture on every post from now on. Thanks for sharing erik.
Keep On Blogging!
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May 7th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I can’t say whether Search Engine counts Picture on Post or not, but here about the Image I said that it creates an atmosphere and helps the reader gain interest. An Image in a Post is mostly used for Readers not the Search Engine.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 am
Its very nice that you take care you reader and always keep in your mind that what they want. You have discussed on such very important topic. post writing is really not so easy task. Nice description.
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July 20th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Keep working, great job, I love it!
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November 30th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Absolutley, you need to have your own flavor in your writing.
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