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5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang. Ten Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques. The 8 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers. Post by Annabel Candy Do you want to be a successful blogger? I do. I might be getting a bit obsessed with it, actually. Post ideas pop into my head unexpectedly. I keep a long running list of ideas for improving my blog. I also study how the most successful bloggers got where they are, and I pore over every word that they write.

If you want to be a great blogger, you should, too. A lot of the top bloggers like Brian Clark, Darren Rowse, and Leo Babauta have shared hundreds of tips about how they made their blogs so successful. There’s too much advice to follow. Finally I realized I needed to stop focusing on little things like what plug-ins to use, how to write my About Page, or where to position my ads. I needed to focus on a bigger picture. I spent a lot of time observing, which led to this list of the eight success traits shared by all top bloggers I’ve found. The good news is that even if you don’t have all these personality traits already, most of them can be developed over time. 1. 2. Headline Writing for Online Content and Copy. A Simple Blogging Formula. In all my years of blogging, I’ve put together what serves as a very simple formula for what I think about when I sit down to the keyboard to type.

This might not serve everyone, but it might be a great start for you to consider when thinking about blogging. Also, let me know how close this relates to your own blogging methods. A Simple Blogging Formula I try to blog almost every day. Let’s go through the formula: Step 1: Decide WHAT the Post Should DO for You I write posts for several purposes: To get a call to action. But I don’t do all of those things in every post. Step 2: How Can I Be Helpful? Every post that gets real traction on my blog comes from the mindset of being helpful to others. So, I write every post to answer how I can be helpful. Step 3: The Actual Writing I start with a headline. I then find a picture on Flickr under their Creative Commons area, so that I can use it with the post (unless I have one of my own to use).

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