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Sunday, October 4, 2009

10 Steps To Develop A Quality Blog Article

      Many people have queries about the article creation process. Today, I am going to show you which elements should every blog article have. Creating a quality and effective article can drastically improve your blog visits and overall traffic to your site for sure.




Develop a Quality Blog Article in 10 Easy Steps

Below, I will show you how to create and develop an quality blog article in easy 10 steps.

1. Research a Topic

      As soon as an idea comes to me, I write it down into a computer and start to research on the internet. I try to find an interesting and quality articles, similar to mine.
This is a very important for the proper article development. Yes, it can take some time to find some quality articles about that specific topic but it can be very useful. I always tend to read as much as possible articles, from multiple sources to ensure a top quality article for my blog.

2. Power of the Links

      Be sure to place as much quality link sources for your articles. Your readers would like to see some other opinion and thoughts while they are reading your own articles.
Links are a very powerful here. Use your article to promote your older posts about a same topic. This way you can get more functionality and productivity of your articles for sure.

3. An Exciting Introduction

      First impressions are very important in a blogging. If you can not pull the reader in during a couple of first paragraphs, you are probably not going them to read the whole article. It is a very important step on the article creation process, so it is important to take it very seriously.
The mail goal here is to sell the article. Try to create a quality, informative and useful introduction for your articles to ensure the maximum effect from it.

4. Use Paragraphs

      This step is also a very useful and productive. You would need to expand each point of your article with a couple of paragraphs. After an introduction, I usually post couple of important paragraphs for each new aspect or point of my article. First I add the h4 tags as a paragraph title, following with h3 tags as subhead.
Using these tags are very useful. Your readers would read your article much more easier than without them. Also, they will be able to find an information they are looking for much faster on your article. Search engines recognize these tags too and that is just one more reason to use them on your articles.

5. Illustrate your Article

      After the writing, It is important to take care about media contents of your articles. Readers likes to see some illustrations, photos or videos embedded into the article.
Try to attach at least one illustration to each article. This may attract your readers to read more further. You have to admit that articles without any images or multimedia files are quite boring.
I always try to position the image in the article header, so it can be easily seen while reading the article. Creating an attractive images may draw visitors to read a whole article.

6. Article Optimization

      Under this term I mean that you need to optimize your articles to be much more effective and productive. Take care about all above steps. Where do you put your images, which links to include and where and how to create a paragraph are just some of the questions you will need to solve now.
Optimizing your articles you can get much more effects with them. Getting your readers to read your article with more comfort is one of the most important factors in the article development process.

7. An Article Title

      An article title is a very important factor here. It is specially useful for the search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Bing. Your article titles will be displayed in the search engine results pages (SERP). Creating a quality and unique article title can guarantee you visitors from the search engines.
A lot of bloggers create a foolish mistake when they come to the title decision. They put a lot of effort to create a quality article and they ruin it with an old and already presented titles. This is one of the most common mistakes that bloggers do unfortunately.

8. Meta and Description Tags

      Meta description and keyword tags are very important for the search engine optimization of your articles. If you are using a Wordpress as you main blogging system, it is useful to create up to 10 different tags that will describe your post. Description tags are visible directly in the search engine results pages (SERP). They need to have up to 160 characters and here you need to create a good and quality description of your article. It is good to have a different description than it is shown on your article page (in the introduction part).

9. Double-check your Post

      This step is also a very important in the article creation process. It is important to double-check everything you have write before you are going to publish it on your blog.
Make sure that your opinions and thoughts flow smoothly between points. It is a good time to check again for some spelling mistakes. Remember this: The more you go over your article, the quality of it will be better.

10. Finally… Publish it

      This one is the easiest step. After you check again your article, you will be ready to publish it on your blog. I hope I have help you to create and develop a quality article on your blog!