CategoryWriting Content

Today Ali from Ali Adventures (and other blogs) shares some tips on writing for the web. You’re an experienced blogger. You know all the basics: you’ve read all about writing useful and unique content, and all your posts use subheadings, thoughtfully bolded text and bullet-pointed lists to be as reader-friendly ...more

There are many reasons that a blog post might get spread widely through ‘ReTweets’ (when one person passes on the tweet of another) but one fairly obvious, yet often overlooked one, has to do with the length of your blog post title. Yesterday on TwiTip I published a post with ...more

In this post Isaac Sweeney shares some rules of writing that I think many of us as bloggers will benefit from. Isaac teaches at the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA) and is a published author. He blogs at Ways With Words. Whether ...more

In this post John from Ace Online Schools shares some tips for writing educational blog content. When the titans of blogging write about building a successful blog, they always emphasize the importance of insanely useful content. One of the best ways to be useful is to educate your readers. If ...more

In the early days of a new blog it can be frustrating to put a lot of time and energy into the writing of posts only to find that it seems as though no one is listening. While you feel you’ve said something worthy of some discussion the comments section ...more

Write something useful Write something unique Write something newsworthy Write something first Write something that makes those who read it smarter Write something controversial Write something insightful Write something that taps into a fear people have Write something that helps people achieve Write something that elicit a response Write something ...more

What type of content helps to build a popular blog? Today Jurgen Appelo from Noop.nl shares three types of posts to help you grow your blog. There are many ways to build a popular blog, and each blog author has his own ideas on topics and style of writing. In ...more

Today copywriter Glenn Murray from http://www.DivineWrite.com shares 7 tips on writing sticky blog posts. People don’t want to read your post. Chances are, they’ve dedicated the first hour of their morning to staying in touch, and even that’s more than they really have time for. They checked out 4 or ...more

Don’t be afraid to be a little Bossy on Your Blog. Over the weekend I was reminded that sometimes readers just like being told what to do. In my post How to Launch a Blog and Have Fresh Content for Weeks I was asked by a reader for advice on ...more