Blog post writing hard for you?
Do you find yourself writing blog posts that fail to attract readers, comments and shares?
It can be very discouraging to produce content day in and day out if it does not get the attention it deserves.
When writing your content, your goal should be to draw people to it like honey to bees.
Here are some 7 cool ways to add some heat to your posts, and grab your readers’ attention:
1.Headline
The headline of your content serves as the door to your world. It should create curiosity and interest and make people want to read your content. If your headline is not compelling and enticing enough, then you are going to lose your readers. So, make your readers curious to find out more by using catchy blog titles.
2.Opening Paragraph
Just imagine how disappointed you’d be after crafting a killer headline for your post, only to lose readers with an opening that failed to carry the momentum.
The second most important part of your blog post after the title is the opening paragraph.
A great headline mixed with a lame opening is like inviting someone into your house, only to slam the door in their face as they approach. Can you imagine that?
So, open your blog posts with a bang – tell your readers what they can expect, give them reasons to read your content, so they keep reading.
3. Formatting
The other thing is to break up your content with sub-headings, bullet points and so on. Always use formatting (bold, italic, underline etc.) to make reading easier.
4. Language
You need to make every sentence and word work for you. Cut out unnecessary words and phrases. Use everyday language. Short, simple words can convey your points far more effectively than grandiose, convoluted ones.
Your subscribers will not be interested in referring to a dictionary every time they read your posts.
5. Internal Linking
You also need to link to your other relevant posts to help your readers visit more of your blog and also help Google find you other related posts and get them ranked as well so you can get more free traffic.
6. Images
Images make posts look colourful, attractive, interesting and even entertaining. Always go for funny or cute pictures. People love them.
Here is a top tip: make your images link to your capture page, fan page or another page or post. Why? Because people like clicking on images. So you could direct them to your money pages or other authority posts.
7. Solve Your Readers’ Problems
Your readers are more interested in posts which solve their problems. Study your niche and get to know your audience so you can know what their common worries and struggles are. You can use these in your posts, by empathising with how they feel and by sharing some solutions.
Blog Post Writing – The Common Trend
Here is the thing… beginner bloggers usually get excited about their brand new, stunning blogs with cool graphics and all that.
Some new bloggers get obsessed with the design and all the nice stuff, not realising that’s not what makes a blog successful.
Being excited with the idea of blogging, they start writing a few posts consistently and them boom! They run out of the steam, hit the wall and then get writer’s block.
Now, even those who have been blogging for a while, go through the same thing every now and then.
They abandon their blogs and make excuses for not coming up with fresh blog post ideas to share with their readers.
A fact is, a blog without content is dead, it will not attract regular visitors, subscribers and customers. No one will take you seriously if you don’t provide content.
Blog Post Writing – What Do You Write About?
As I have already mentioned, a lot of bloggers are struggling with blog post writing as they fail to come up with ideas on a regular basis. Without a doubt, writer’s block is one of the biggest challenges that many bloggers face today.
From time to time, I get comments like this:
This is a common problem and it shouldn’t be this way because there’s just so much to write about.
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1. 5 key principles for successful blog post writing.
2. Where to find ideas for your blog content.
3. How to engage, enlighten, entertain and empower your readers.
4. How you can get your readers glued to your content.
5. How you can beat writer’s block for good and start having fun blogging 
6. 147 things you can write about for years to come!
7. Essential tools you must use to make sure your content gets found and read.
What I share in my ebook is gold-dust. You don’t want to miss this if you’re serious about improving your blog post writing skills and driving more traffic to your content.
Blog Post Writing Key Takeaway
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Mavis Nong is the creator and author of this blog.
She is passionate about helping others create success online.
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Hi Mavis,
Super tips, I dig the one about keeping your language simple.
Short, punchy, directed and focused posts work best. Talk in every day language. Readers want simple to digest, usable content. Stuff they can read quickly, process, and put into use for their own benefit. Wordy, grandiose posts do NOT accomplish this. Leave your ego behind and think about how you can help your readers in the most direct way possible.
As for headlines, they make the post. Interesting and magnetic headlines get plenty of clicks. Boring headlines get few clicks. Your content can be top shelf, but if your headline is whack, nobody reads it, meaning your content provides little benefit for others, even if it’s darn good. Think action. Start titles with action verbs, or how to do something. This lets readers know right off the bat that they need to take action, starting with clicking on your title!
Thanks!
Ryan
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Wow! What a powerful comment, Ryan – love it!
Couldn’t agree with you more about using catchy headlines and you practice what you preach – well done!
Thanks for stopping by and for your insightful comment.
All the best,
Mavis
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Hello Mavis,
Great post in here! Thanks for sharing your tips how to write content that grabs your reader’s attention. For me the 2 biggest factors really are the headline and opening paragraph just like what you said. And most of all it should solve other people’s problem. By the way thanks for the tip about the “images”. Haven’t tried it yet, so this must be +1
Thanks again Mavis.
`Sonny
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You’re welcome, Sonny. Thanks for the +1
All the best,
Mavis
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Mavis, thanks for the cool tips. Especially the one about linking to images is brilliant. Got one question: Do you have a landing page for your ebook, where I can learn a bit more about the book?
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Thanks, Jane.
I share:
1. 5 key principles for successful blog post writing.
2. Where to find ideas for your blog content.
3. How to engage, enlighten, entertain and empower your readers.
4. How you can get your readers glued to your content.
5. How you can beat writer’s block for good and start having fun blogging
6. 147 things you can write about for years to come!
7. Essential tools you must use to make sure your content gets found and read.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
thanks for sharing your insights. It’s a tragedy that so many blogs fall into oblivion and their Alexa ranking remains in the millions in spite of an ambitious start. I underestimated what it takes to run a successful blog, but when I realized what to do I did it. Let’s face it (we don’t have to like it): Even mediocre content with proper promotion can be successful whereas top content without proper promotion won’t be successful. The best way to run a blog is certainly to marry great content and proper promotion. Well, you are a master at this, are you not ?
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Take care
Oliver
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Tragedy indeed, Oliver. It all boils down to learning and taking consistent action.
I couldn’t agree you more, great content and proper promotion are very important.
Thanks for your kind words and encouragement, Oliver.
All the best,
Mavis
Hello Mavis,
Great post and always great information you share with your readers. I find your posts on FB and the titles there interest me. From FB I come over and spend time at your blog as the info you do write about is always what I’m looking for and of great value to myself and I’m sure to others.
Thanks for being good at what you do!! It’s much appreciated.
Thanks very much for your kind words and encouragement, Steve. Welcome to my blog!
My goal is to help others to get better at blogging.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
I hope that your book becomes a great success. Your blog proves that you really have what it takes to inspire people to write.
I have the most problems with the titles. I guess that you need to be talented for those one-liners.
Thanks, Ana.
Hey Mavis!
This is my first time on your blog, and VERY pleased i found it!
Especially loving the tip about ‘solving your readers problems’.
Always trying to provide the right value to people goes a long way these days
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Hi Carlton! Welcome to my blog!
Glad to hear that you like it here
See you soon.
Mavis
Mavis,
Nice detailed post. Out of the 7 suggestions that you gave us in the first half of that post, which one of the seven do you think is the most important? Q2 – When you first started blogging, which out of those seven do you think you were lacking in the most?
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They are all important, Ted.
Great advice Mavis. I will pass this information along.
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For me if you want to catch the attention of your readers the Title of you blog should be Interesting. Choose your Words and write something controversy but not to the extent that your hitting someone below the belt. You should be aware of your limitations. All the Best Mavis!
Thanks, Robert.
In my opinion write blog on hot and trending topics from your niche market to attract huge audience for your blog, it will also give boost your post pages in search results, these above mentioned methods are wonderful way to compose good blog post, thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Alexandrabrian
You’re welcome, Alexandrabrian.
Mavis
Mavis,
Great tips here. It is all about hooking your reader and keeping them there. Unlike what they taught you in grade school you definitely want to front-load and lead with your best stuff. It is all writing to attract.
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That’s how it should be done, Scott.
Thanks for stopping by.
Mavis
Hi Mavis and thanks for the great tips. I have to pay special attention to #4 “Language”. As a law student, I have to make a conscious effort watch my language. My Tip: After I write, I have my husband read it and give me feedback. If it’s “over his head” then I have to edit:-)
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You’re welcome, Erika. That’s a great thing to ask someone to proof read your content before publishing.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
Excellent post on Blog writing tips.
Even I get writers block, so the information you provide goes a long way.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
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You’re welcome, Michael,
Warmly,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
I agree with all the points you mentioned here, especially the first one – headlines. However, I have encountered blog posts that have interested me to click on and read because of their compelling “killer” headlines, but when I read the content, it does not satisfy me, and there are times that the headline was just a lure to get me to read some old content that I have already read somewhere before.
I know what you mean, Felicia. I also come across the same posts.
Good post with nice tips how we can make a perfect blog post all 7 points are perfect to target good traffic and take too many comment on blog post.
This is the one of the great idea which you mentioned in your blog post. We should use Bullet, Underline and Italic these kind of activities in content which impress the readers as well as it will be easy to read.
Thanks
I agree with you in your point on language. Some folks think by using being pompous or grandiloquent in your writing can grab the attention of the reader.It makes the reading so bored and the reader would not be able to dial in the idea the writer is trying to pass across. You lose Authority in your niche by always doing that.
That’s true
Awesome tips for a blog post. But what i feel is you need to Assume most of your readers won’t get past the headline. Assume most of the rest won’t get past the opening paragraph. If you just follow this and apply it to your post then i am sure you’ll have most traffic getting post.
That’s true.
IMO, the best way to attract more n more visitors to your blog is to write articles on topics which doesn’t exists on Internet and I think this is what Google wants us to write. Providing with such a content that is nowhere on the internet could really boost your blog traffic many times. Secondly, every visitor expects something that could add some value in the knowledge. If blogger can input some unique tips into their articles visitors will definitely appreciate it.
Leading with value and original content is key, Mac.
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Mavis
Mavis: I’ve been following you for awhile and you provide incredible content, especially for those of us who haven’t been blogging for very long.
Writing doesn’t come easy to me so blogging is sometimes a bit of a struggle; I so appreciate the tips you give to make the struggle LESS of a struggle.
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You’re welcome, Diane. I appreciate your kind words
Mavis
Writing an effective post is what matters the most. While bringing traffic to your website can be easy with some SEO techniques, keeping those visitors on the site and making conversions is the most important part because at the end of the day you are looking to make something out of your internet marketing efforts.
This is a great post and I think every newbie should read this post and implement these tips before blindly jumping into the internet marketing arena.
Agreed, Hendrik. Traffic generation without conversions is useless.
This is a very nice post.A lot of bloggers only write things to their blogs in order to attract google bots.But as a blog owner the key is to write quality posts that attract visitors attention with images etc.And as you said the key is finally to solve the visitor problem.
Absolutely.
Blog post writing is not difficult for any writing but a perfect blog post which influence the readers is a hard word which require technique and strategy, writing on hot and trending topic is the best approach to reach the desire of your readers. These are the amazing and wonderful techniques, really thanks to you for this resourceful information. Keep writing on informative and resourceful topics.
Thank you
Loved the post! So many tips, told in the most simple and effective manner
I agree catchy headlines does attract readers but then I have even heard that stuffing your headline with certain related keywords from your post helps you in Search engines and is good for SEO. Is it true?
No need to stuff your titles or content with keywords. Use them sparingly.
Hi Mavis,
Nice post. Bloggers do blogging on regular basis and to maintain heat in their blog is very important.Mavis you have shared very important points to add heat in blogpost and I think it is worth to try your ideas.
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Thanks, Pete. Welcome to my blog!
All the best,
Mavis
Marvelous tips! I think that at the very beginning of writing any article, much attention should be paid on the headline, because there is a number of people who can even not to read an article further if the headline didn’t evoke their interest or wasn’t eye-catching for them. And in this case you can lose a huge number of readers. And I also agree with you completely about language, it should be simple and easy for reading
Agreed.
It is right that for the success for your blog just create interest for the readers and they will take interest in your product. If your readers get knowledge from your blog, they will introduce your blog in their community.
True
Hi Mavis,
Lot of comments here and I follow your blog for it’s great content I have an interest in.
I did contact you about discussing CCP and have a great interest there also.
Thanks again for such valuable trustworthy information here!
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Hi Steve! Welcome to my blog!
I appreciate your kind words and encouragement.
I didn’t get your message re CCP
See you soon.
Mavis
Great tips! Nice very beginning of writing any article.
Thanks for sharing. Please share with us some your SEO techniques if is possible
Thanks for nice post.
You’re welcome, Nika. You can learn about SEO here: http://www.attractionmarketingonline.com/category/seo/
Best,
Mavis
Outstanding post! There’s so much knowledge here that I can & really love to use. I truly liked what you said about Solving Your Readers’ Problems and then offering a solution. This would really make a big difference in my style of writing. Thanks!
My pleasure, Joy.
Mavis, I love this post! I am going to make time for more consistent content creation in 2012. This is a great reminder list!
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Thanks, Bryan.
All the best for 2012,
Mavis
By far the most difficult part for me is to come up with great ideas for new blog posts – and doing this on a continuous basis. Seems like your ebook on Writers Block may be exactly what I need – I definitely will check it out.
Yes, my ebook will help you out, no doubt, Robert.
Thank you so much Mavis for sharing this tips. I really enjoyed reading your post. All points you mentioned there are essential for any blog post in any niche..!
I think the headlines play a vital role than any others but remaining also important in a long run..
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