This is all about how to write content, format it, and publish it to your blog website.
Summary Steps to Write Content & Format a Topic’s Post
- Firstly, decide on a topic to write about; confirm it fits under a category or a higher (main) topic.
- Identify optimum keyphrases (old term is “keywords”) to use before writing your topic’s post.
- Then, create an outline for your topic’s post using headings correctly.
- With this purpose in mind, now write the post article for readers & for content SEO.
- Food Recipe niches only (How to Format a Blog Post Recipe)
- Also, insert internal links and external links.
- To illustrate, now insert media into post.
- Use the best sizes for images.
- Also, take advantage of the Image Size Quick Chart.
- As always, take into account using SEO for images.
- For food recipe niches only, create and insert recipe.
- Then, apply properties to article post. (title, SEO title, meta description, category, tag(s), author, slug, canonical URL, etc.).
- Finally, publish post. Then, perform post publishing tasks.
Writing content is for the reader and for search engines.
Knowledge Areas to Writing Content & Formatting Properly
In between writing, you want to learn more about writing better. With this intention, learn for the reader and also for SEO. So, here are some of those topics in this writing category.
- Using keyphrases (keywords) in all facets of writing.
- Locating keyphrases for your topic and match it with potential future topics & your site’s domain authority
- Understanding use of “tags”
- How to organize posts by “category”
- Ensuring you have rich snippets for Google and other search engines
- Tips for improving readability levels for your readers and for search engines
- Improving Post Title, SEO Title, & Meta descriptions
- Awareness of word counts, paragraph lengths, article sizing, words per heading, etc.
- How to write a more interesting article
- Here’s a good example of writing better, exciting content from Liz Careathers on SmartBlogger. See her article “How to Write a Blog Post… The Ultimate Guide“.
