Do you know that 70+ million blogs are published every single month? How many do you write? Are you consistent enough to stay in the industry?
Writing a blog is a pleasant feeling, but following a proper structure becomes even more important, especially for beginners who want to grow their personal or business brand and do online business.
Not only will you learn how to write your first blog post, but I will also give you examples and how popular writers create blog posts and drive traffic consistently every day using strategies.
Let’s begin this epic journey of creating blog posts together from scratch and don’t worry as we all start from 0.
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18 Steps on How to Write Your First Blog Post (With Examples)
Your first blog post isn’t going to be perfect I guarantee that but it can be impactful and close to perfection if you really focus on these 18 strategies step-by-step and follow them consistently.
Yes, there are 3 levels of blog writing format that can change the way you write a blog post, so if you want to know these 3 levels that I created personally then check that article here on the topic:
3 Levels of Blog Writing Format. (Don’t miss this article, read it and everything will be crystal clear for you)
Nevertheless, make sure you follow the steps in a particular order as millions of blogs are published daily so you have to be unique right?
1. Start With A Clear Purpose & Intent
Before you start writing a blog post, always make sure you ask yourself some simple questions like:
- What is the purpose of this post?
- What is the Search Intent of my audience?
- Who is my audience?
- What do they expect from this post?
- What problem will I solve with this post?
- What is the end goal and solution?
These questions are extremely important to make sure your blog post will rank on search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.
Note:
If you miss any of the steps, then forget you will get traffic or you will be unique in any way possible, then run with the crowd!
Want to be unique, then read each word of this blog post and gain trust and loyalty from your audience.
Now, let’s cover these questions one by one in detail.
A. What is the Purpose of this blog post?
This simply means finding your topic’s purpose and what do you want to actually cover, what is the actual reason behind this search?
Why would someone search for this for any reason?
B. What is the Search Intent of my audience?
Search Intent means why someone actually searched for this term online.
Example: Best mobile phones, Why will someone search this? Most probably with the intent to buy and know the best mobile phone right?
So, similarly think why will someone actually search for your topic? Is it for informational purpose or commercial purpose?
C. Who Is My Audience?
This is important! You must know your audience even before starting a website right?
This is because everyone has certain tastes and will only search queries based on their interests.
For example: If I search Why climate change will affect tropical countries? Well, is everyone going to search for it? Most probably students, researchers, and teachers right? Similarly:
- What is their age?
- What is their location?
- What is their geographic location?
Even think about these questions before writing your first blog.
D. What do they expect from this post?
Well, behind the search Intent, there are always some reasons and expectations of a viewer.
Example: I go to Google and search what is the best way to learn Guitar fast.
I hope you can figure out the expectations! If not, think before you read further!
E. What problem will I solve with this post?
Every post focuses on solutions but first comes the problem, right?
Always make sure you know the problem and why users need an answer, if you can figure this out, you are the champion in blogging!
F. What is the end goal and solution?
The solution and goal of a search query ends with your logical thinking as you are a blogger and hence you will be responsible for the information that you deliver.
Be honest, with that, and always remember on your end goal, you must provide brilliant solutions that the user will read and stay on your website for website for the maximum amount of time.
2. Do Keyword Research Properly
Probably one of the most important terms in the world of blogging today and the most avoided concept for new bloggers.
Keyword research is the best way to grow your website and blog online and gain a lot of views.
Remember that keyword research will eventually help you craft important concepts and add relevant keywords that can drive traffic to your website.
To do keyword research focus on tools like:
- Semrush
- Ahrefs
- Google Keyword Planner and many more
3. Choose An Attractive Title
Out of 10 people, only 8 read the headlines, will 2 out of 10 people actually click on the blog post that you write!
A fantastic important data right? It’s true! Whenever we Google something, we get countless results but we only click on those results that are important or look attractive by why?
It’s because of the Title, the heading, whatever you all it! It attracts you and other users!
A brilliant attractive title will give you an edge over your competitors so always focus on your title and make it SEO-friendly!
4. Start With A Hook
A hook is important to make sure you retain your users to further read your blog post.
If somehow people click on your article after clicking on the title then what’s the guarantee they will stay on your website?
For this start your blog with a fantastic hook, hook is like an important piece of statement that will attract you to read the post further.
Example: 70+ million blogs are published every single month and how many do you write daily?
5. Provide Data-Driven Insights (Optional)
This is actually optional because there are many types of blogs and each type doesn’t require data-driven insights like a graph or a pie chart right?
If you cover a certain topic that requires some data in order to attract visitors and it fulfills the purpose then make sure you provide data-driven insights like I did in the hook!
But it’s a small data of numbers and you can cover a significant amount of data with an image.
6. Glorious Introduction
Any blog without a proper introduction is not worth it remember that!
Any blog you write must contain an Introduction: It can be short and even long but it sets the tone of your entire blog post!
Any Introduction must cover:
- What is the purpose?
- What is the problem?
- What is the solution that we will cover today?
Remember, your introduction must be smooth and attention-worthy!
Make sure you apply your focused keyword here as you have done the keyword research above. An SEO-friendly plugin will always recommend you add focused keywords at the beginning of the blog post!
Remember, keyword research will set the tone of your blog, and the introduction if properly optimized for SEO will make sure your article is worthy enough to be shown to a new audience.
For this you must choose a proper SEO plugin and for that use the Rank-Math SEO plugin.
7. Provide Useful Navigational Headings
You are reading these pointers, right? What are they actually? Well, they are called headings and sub-headings.
These useful navigational headings help us to organize our blog posts effectively. What is the heading here?
Well, the main heading is the title followed by 16 Steps on How to Write Your First Blog Post (With Examples) and then these 18 pointers are sub-headings that further provide a clear detailed structure.
Heading is useful to set the tone of your blog post and readers can simply skim through your post and even engage in a better way.
This provides clarity to your topic and provides you a good amount of authority that’s needed in the initial stage and even in advanced stages of blogging eventually leading to good results for you in the long run and making you money.
8. Use Sub-Headings (Optional)
Subheadings are optional and hence can be considered when you are writing a step-by-step guide to listicles types of blog posts.
Subheadings are the points that I have added and that you are reading right now as they are helpful to make people understand and navigate easily.
Subheadings are useful for SEO purposes and even for organizing your content.
9. Write SEO-Friendly Valuable Content
This is the time when you will be writing your entire content in a flow.
Remember, your content needs to be SEO-friendly, and make sure you use the SEO-friendly plugin as we discussed above.
Once you start writing, everything will be checked and you’ll see green ticks, and that represents you are representing your article in an SEO-friendly manner.
Remember: Your content must be valuable, unique and must provide value to the audience.
10. Complete Writing And don’t Edit (Important)
Remember to finish the entire blog post and don’t do editing in between.
Pro Tip:
To speed up your writing process, First, you must complete the entire blog post and then only go for editing.
11. End It with a Clear Conclusion
Many readers often look for a conclusion and it’s also important to end your blog with a clear message.
If you finish a blog without any key focus then at the end of the day, you might lose a lot of traction and audience.
End it with a clear conclusion and add it like a summary/ not a complete summary but main lessons that can be learned and further add CTA by asking relevant questions and asking people to comment down below.
12. Now Start The Editing Process
Now that you have completely written your entire blog post, first of all, congratulations if you achieved this, and celebrate!
Next, you can work on editing and simply look for grammar mistakes and remove those mistakes by working on them like using Grammarly as an extension.
13. Finally Optimize The Entire Article Again with SEO Plugin Recommendations
Optimize the entire article based on SEO plugin recommendations and believe that blog posts will eventually gain traffic in the long term if you achieve a good SEO score.
14. Add Important Links
Now comes the interesting part!
Start linking your articles with other articles.
Since this is your first article internal linking is not possible but external linking can be possible hence link back to other people’s blogs.
Link building helps to ensure that your blog becomes trustworthy for search engines like Google and even for your audience.
15. Add Important Multimedia Content
Now that you have written down all the content it’s time to design your post through multimedia.
Remember that important multimedia content enhances SEO credibility and makes your content readable and enjoyable to your audience.
If you don’t add multimedia like images, infographics, videos, etc then your blog post will be eventually boring hence make sure your blogs look appealing to your audience and they can visualize concepts in a better way.
16. Ask A Question
Always ask a question at the end of the blog to make sure people engage with your content, they can comment down and answer or ask their questions so that you can start building a community.
This is also the same for multiple platforms if you wonder how to write your first blog post on WordPress then don’t worry you can still ask questions to people.
It’s a good practice.
17. Publish The Post
Now, it’s time to publish your post!
Congratulations on your first blog and I hope you write countless blogs and inspire people!
18. Share It Online
Now, as you have published your first blog post online then why hide it right?
Share it online on multiple social media platforms and start gaining traffic.
Conclusion On How To Write Your First Blog Post
I hope that you have learned the fresh logical 18 steps on how to write your first blog post and remember to follow the same pattern every single time you publish a blog post.
This is because following the same consistent pattern will help you to gain a lot of traction and the audience will know who you are and why to support you.
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