How to create great blog content

Making sure your blog content offers your readers high value is an important lesson to learn, because no one is going to read your blog or find your offerings if your content isn’t something they want to consume.

know your audience

Before you write any content or create any kind of content, you really need to know who you are creating it for. Who are you trying to teach, engage, inform, educate and entice to do something?

Understand the point of your blog content

When you create content for your blog, each piece of content should have its own purpose and reason for being. When you know that purpose, you can craft it much better.

Create some long form content

Add some content that is longer and deeper. This is a great use of your blog space. You can even create one shorter blog post at a time, then create a longer post where you link to each post to create a new long-form blog post that your audience will click on.

Use some short content

Add shorter content that addresses your audience’s concerns and break down the information you want to teach them into bite-sized chunks, about 450-800 words per blog post.

Add trends and relevant content

Don’t forget that no matter what your content calendar suggests, news happens. If you don’t add that trending news, you may not be seen as an expert and you may accidentally send your visitors elsewhere to get that news. Even if you only select trending content, that’s better than ignoring it or being behind the curve.

Use high-quality images

Using images that are obviously good quality stock photos or images you take yourself makes your blog look so much better. If you bookmark those images, that’s even better. You want the images you use for each blog post to advance your message and convey feelings to your readers.

Use different content formats

Don’t just use text-based blog posts. Use a mix of infographics, memes, text blog posts, and videos. This will make your blog look much more interesting.

Remember your SEO

Even if your audience doesn’t realize it, good SEO is not only for you, but also for your visitors. Using good SEO means that you use accurate titles, good subtitles, and keywords that your audience is interested in. Everything helps. But, so does the design and navigation of the blog site. This is what adds to the perception that your blog is of great value.

Creating high-quality content has a lot to do with your audience’s perception of the content, as well as the quality of the information you’re providing. If you want to be known as the authority on your topic within your niche, posting amazing, high-value blog content on a regular and consistent basis will get you there.