How To Write A Remarkable Blog Post

How To Write A Remarkable Blog Post

A lot of time we all like to complicate matters than we need to. I have read countless posts on how to write a remarkable blog post. You will be surprised to discover that in reality your site visitors are only interested in reading about simple posts that are beneficial to them.

Seth Godin post little bits, expounds more on this subject.

How about the ever controversial programs, tactics and software’s that promise to deliver hundreds and millions of visitors to your site each day? How I wish you knew!

Wrong strategy.

A better strategy would be to use Darren Rowse, 21 ways to make your blog or website sticky regardless of the amount of traffic you are receiving now. With time this strategy could pay big dividends in the near future.

How about this?

Successful content relies on the hook, the angle, the tiny little element no one else takes time to notice. It’s not that others are more talented than you, it’s that they work harder finding the winning difference.

Full article by Brian Clark, the Secret to captivating content

A more interesting way on how to write a remarkable blog post is to be a die-hard follower of coach potato. Now if you still haven’t heard about coach potato, then sit tight. You are in for a long one, here is the full post about coach potato.

Analytical Skills.

Finally, be careful on what you read out there and how you relate two things together before you make a conclusive decision. Not everything you read is final. For instance my post today on how to write a remarkable blog post is neither final nor is it conclusive.

Perhaps developing an analytical skill on how to think critically when relating the cause and effect of an action could be your ticket to writing a better post that is remarkable.

Okay it’s time to be more philosophical. The true-true-but red herring

How To Write For Your Human Visitors

How To Write For Your Human Visitors.

If there is one thing that most serious affiliate marketers, bloggers and webmasters are guilt of then it is one - always trying to write a well optimized post / page for the search engines at the cost and neglect of their human visitors!

Of course we could all love to write a post or page that gets immediately picked up by the search engine bots and then quickly gets indexed and rises to the top of the search engine result for a given keyword.

In the last week I have been discussing in details about SEO.

Today let us deviate from that and do something different. We are going to learn more on how to write a well optimized page for your human visitors.

I know that you have read over and over again articles like this one: How to Write Effective Web Content for Your Business Website. Of course the common preposition is that you should write content that your visitors will read, identify with and find useful and suited to their particular interest.

There is tremendous amount of success that comes from writing posts that focus in helping your visitors as opposed to spinning out well optimized pages that people tend to click the back arrow as soon as they arrive from the search engines.

So how do you get to write a well optimized page for human your human visitors?

Our friend Steve Pavlina has an answer for us. If you are still wondering who the heck this guy is, then off record:

Steve Pavlina is the guy who has managed to create one of the best and leading self growth development and conscious living website on the internet. He started writing articles and then blogging on the internet long before a whole lot of us knew how to:

Listen to what he had to say concerning how to write for your human visitors:

A lot has been written about the optimal strategies for strong search engine rankings in terms of posting frequency and post length. But I largely ignore that advice because I write for human beings, not computers…

Read the full article on how to build a high traffic website or blog here.

If you want to write to your visitors, then you will have to learn and develop your writing skills. Writing a good page that resonates with your site visitors is a delicate skill that takes time to master. Of course the first step is to know who you are writing for and what kind of visitors you are attract and would want to attract and keep.

Now it’s important to remember that you can only be able to write effectively only if you have a particular niche in mind that you are catering for. It is increasingly becoming very hard to a wide generic mass. Leave that for yahoo.com or about.com which are massive sites with huge resources at their disposal.

According to Brian Clark, there are ten persuasive writing techniques that can help you write a great captivating post:

1. Repetition,
2. Reasons why,
3. Consistency,
4. Social proof,
5. Comparison,
6. Solve and Agitate,
7. Prognosticate,
8. Go tribal,

Read Brian Clark full article on how to write for your human visitors by making use of the ten timeless persuasive writing techniques.

Regardless of which niche you choose, 99% chances are that there are others who have also discovered the same niche. Each post you publish will be received by hundreds or thousands more posts with the same similar information as yours.

For example if you are an affiliate marketer chances are that for any post that you want to write for your human visitors promoting any of your best affiliate programs, the obvious scenario is that there will be other affiliate marketers promoting the same product or service.

Therefore the question is how do you write a post that people will actually get to read irrespective of all the other posts with almost the same product, service or content as yours?

Here is a free PDF report, how to write things people will read. Don’t worry, the pdf report is only 4 pages long, it discusses 7 factors that you should have in mind as you go about to write for your human visitors. Be assured that there are no promotional affiliate links on the report, just in case you are cautious.

My next post will provide you with a link to download a free ebook that will teach you how to write for your human visitors.