Writing on a print media and on a blog/site is entirely different thing.While writing in a print media you don't have to bother about keywords and search engine optimization.But while writing on a blog you have to take care of these points failing which you may not be noticed on the net and in blogosphere.

This makes blog writing a bit more difficult than writing anywhere else.In this series of post I would tell you about the art of writing a blog.

You can't be a master of something if you don't know the definition of that 'something'.So, I will start with definition of "article".I will define article or blogpost as-


"A written piece of information which is primarily written for human beings and is also search engine friendly."


Now extract three phrases from this definition-

1)"Piece of information"-

This means your article should contain some useful information.A visitor comes to your blog or any other blog in search of information ,so, you must have some useful information in your article.


2)"Primarily written for human beings"-

This phrase is most important.You should be writing articles to help your readers.The article should be in simple language to make it understandable for anyone.I come across some blogs which are primarily optimized for search engines to get high rankings.While high search engine rankings can bring you some beefit but in the long run it will not be beneficial for your blog.Write for humans first and then consider robots.


3)"search engine friendly"-

The article should contain useful keywords to get traffic from search engines.Remember use keywords cleverly in such a way that it doesn't defeats the purpose of making the article for human beings first.While writing online you have to consider search engines and optimimization because if you entirely omit search engine optimization then you remain unnoticed and there is no point writing or saying something when nobody is listening to you.



Now I am coming to point on how to write articles for your blogs/websites?


I follow some steps for writing articles.I call these collection of steps as "Article Pathway". (self coined term)These Steps are-



Step-1 Selection Topic

Step-2 Research

Step-3 Keyword Research

Step-4 Writing a 'Killing' Title(Becuse the first thing your readers will notice is your Title)

Step-5 Writing first paragraph to generate curiosity(So that readers read your entire article)

Step-6 Writing general body of Article

Step-7 Last Paragraph of Article (Use this paragraph to generate curiosity for your next post or just sum up what you have said in your article)

Step-8 Proof Reading



Each and every step has its own importance.So,you should pay attention to every step in order to write good article.I would advice you to proceed in sequential manner ,i.e.,follow step 1 followed by 2 and so on.


I will write about each and every step in quite detail in separate posts.

The first step of "article pathway" is choosing your topic.Sometimes it becomes tough to choose topic because you are not able to decide whether you should write articles on a topic in which people are interested or write about something in which you are interested.I have discussed this topic in detail in my post "How to Write an Article part 2".

Other Posts in This Series are-

How to write An Article-part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7

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