With all the recent changes in Google’s algorithm, which decides how web is ranked, one of the most important factors to consider is the quality of your blog.
You need to differentiate yourself from the millions of other blogs around the net, in order to build a good online reputation and a circle of loyal readers.
So any good advice on how to write awesome content for your blog is always welcome.
My friend and blogger Chris Madej of NoPassiveIncome, wrote an eBook (“15 Fast Tips About Creating Great Content for Your Blog“), which illustrates how to create high quality articles for your site.
Here you can read some suggestions on how to produce excellent content, inspired from Chris eBook.
1. Take Some Time Without Distractions
There are people who can write a lot in less time and in the middle of confusion and people who needs a quite place, without distractions and few hours to write a good article.
Whatever is the level of your ability, consider that your writing skill will improve with time!
Find your compromise : check in which condition you are more productive. This is the most important thing, your productivity!
A little advice?
Get a pc without an internet connection when you have to write and produce new content (or switch off momentarily the internet connection of your main pc).
2. Write a Catchy Headline
The headline is the most important part of your article, because it is the first thing the user sees before deciding whether to read your content, or discard it.
For this reason, you need to find a headline that attracts the attention of visitors. An example:
How to Write Quality Content for Your Readers and Be Loved by Google
But be careful! Do not promise things that do not respect the content of your article, otherwise you will lose credibility.
And you know how important is online reputation for bloggers and writers.
3. Write for YOUR Readers, Not for Google
Yes, of course. Your keywords are important. But your readers are even more important!
So write proper English (or whatever your language is), checks for mistakes, proofread before publishing.
Use a simple style, possibly short sentences and easy words to understand. No errors in spelling, grammar and syntax.
Do not forget to link back to your old articles, which match the content of the new post.
Be creative, try to write articles that meet the needs of your readers. Or, that solve problems.
Write guidebooks or about new trends.
It is important that you consider that the content will be read by Real people, not robots!
4 . Be Original
Remember to not copy!
This is one of the basic rule to follow when you want to create fresh content. Of course you can take inspiration from other bloggers, but do not just copy.
Be aware that duplicate content is strongly penalized by search engines.
These are just some tips that you should consider when writing new content for your blog.
If you want a comprehensive guide on how to produce new quality posts in your site, or write content of the highest caliber, download and read the eBook that Chris offers you. You will not regret!
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These really are awesome tips! Bloggers should pay attention to their content because the Update from Google checks the duplicity of every website and penalizes it in SERP
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Quality content and attention to what readers need, these are very basic rules for every blogger!
Thanks for the comment, Christian.
Thanks for confirming that, Erik.
It helps my self-esteem. Have a nice day!
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Hi Erik,
first of all – many thanks for mentioning me and my ebook. I really appreciate it!
As you wrote – Google is changing algorithm all the time and great content is really one of the most important things to be on the 1st page of SERPs.
But we must remember that we should write for our readers – and if we don’t know, what they want, we should ask them about it!
Once more thanks for these great tips!
Chris
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My pleasure, Chris!
I think that keeping your readers as first and more important pillar in your blog, will save you for any future “strange” or “evil” Google algorithm!
Hello Erik, 1st of all thanks for the ebook provided to me and secondly it is true that headlines or topic matters. Further, I want to say that if we wrote for our readers then how will our search traffic increase?
Hi Nilesh,
if you read at the comment below of Annetta Powell, she explains perfectly how it is important to write for readers and Not for Google.
Hey Erik,
As you might know that I’m a daily reader of Chris’s blog and I’ve also grabbed his E-book. That is really awesome E-book with a lot of great tips, tricks and information for bloggers.
Congrats Chris for being mentioned here at Erik’s place.
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Hi Ehsan, thanks for your support!
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Hi Ehsan,
glad to know you enjoy the content of Chris, I like it too!
Thanks for your comment!
Hi Erik,
Great tips here and I have to get that eBook from Chris!
The biggest mistake most of the bloggers make (including me) is to write for Google. We don’t realize Google is not our audience but the readers are. I have been doing this for couple of years and found that most of the things I was doing was a mistake. When I changed my approach, I see a lot of improvement and as a result, Google is giving me some free bonus too.
With that in mind, I am going to invest some money into getting grammarly.com and be on top. I want to make my content more presentable and with this tool, I can get all the help I need from an editor.
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Annetta,
thanks for sharing your experience,
and I am happy to see that with your changes in your content you are improving your rankings.
My best wishes for your site!
nice article Erik it will surely help me up and chris u have done a great work dude
awesome E-book 
Glad to hear you enjoyed Chris content and mine.
Thanks for the comment, Shubham.
Two things are important Quality content, and Original content many new bloggers copy content from other blogs, or rewrite the post in their way which is also the same meaning… their post is original but content is not unique.
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Nice point of view, Nishant.
There is a quite substantial difference between original content and unique content.
Thanks for the comment.
Thats why most of new bloggers fails, I was doing the same on my old blog, but now I am writing original and Unique..
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Well yes, first thing the visitors sees usually upon visiting are the headlines and having catchy headlines draws the attention of visitors and thereby encouraging them to read further. Agreed! readers are even more important than keywords and yes, proof-reading the article/post before publishing is really important, so as to avoid mistakes/errors. Thanks Erik for sharing this wonderful post
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Glad you liked, Nizam.
Thanks for the comment.
The 4 tips you shared above are awesome advices for every blogger, who want to build a successful blog. The #4 point is must tips that anyone has to follow. Be unique, you will make difference.
Do not be afraid to show your personality = be unique!
Thanks for the comment, Trung.
Hi,
As you have mentioned write for readers, not for Google; it’s really important now a days. A blogger must have to follow these steps mentioned above to reach heights.
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If you write for readers, and not for search engines, you do not have to worry anymore for the next Google updates.
I think the aim of all these changes is to keep high the quality of the content of the web.
Thanks for the comment, Ashwani!
Some nice tips here Erik. One I’ve found useful is to make constant use of a notepad, be it a physical one or the memo function on my phone.
Then I can jot down ideas when I get them, and even flesh out a skeleton of an article so that I know roughly what can go in each paragraph.
This makes it very simple to then write the article once I’m back at a computer.
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Hi Adi,
great suggestions, thanks!
Sometimes during the day a post idea or subject comes into my mind, then I write few words into my iPhone.
Now with my new iPad things are easier…
Thanks for your comment!
Some good advice here, Erik. I agree that headlines are the most important way to attract readers. Being original is also important especially these days when Google is rewarding high quality, original content.
I would also add that the first 50 words of your copy are most important in getting your audience to engage with your copy and writing while keeping WIIFM (What’s in it for me) in mind.
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Gazalla,
thanks for adding this great tip!
It’s of great value for the article!
Erik,
I like your style here! Keep it coming.
Thank you fro sharing this with the group as well.
Pete
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Glad you liked the article, Pete!
Thanks for your comment.
Hi Erik,
You are right about catchy headlines because a good one will certainly attract the attention of readers. However, there are some sites who write catchy headlines, in fact so catchy, that the content of their post is not even related with their headlines. MGID anyone?
You’re right, Felicia.
The promise of a good title should be reflected in an excellent article content!
Lots of brilliant tips in here alot of which I already do, but I love the idea of working on a computer with no internet connection. That has got to be my number ONE distraction.
Thanks for this !!
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Glad you liked the tips, Wasim!
This will help you focus on do more work without distraction!