11 Steps to Write a Good Post without Wasting Time
Most of the bloggers nowadays are amateur bloggers, just starting off. They Do it as a part time job or for love. They spend a lot of time on writing posts for their blogs. But not always their effort gets rewarded as it should do. So we must learn to manage time economically. This is a quick 11 point tip to get going for writing good articles without wasting a lot of time. What this post will offer is finding great topics to write in a short time & how to write them in one go.
#1. Select a Topic that Fits your Expertise
Do not & never go for articles that you do not understand yourself. This is because you can never write fluently & its a waste of time to learn it then & write. If you want to venture a new arena, well learn it earlier & if after you feel like writing about it you can then.
#2. After the Selection go for the Research
Now its time for the research. Now the internet is a vast ocean & the search engines are good sailors to get you navigate in places that seemed to never existed to you. So you do not need to be another Einstein to do that. Now while researching note down the points & sketch some outline for the post.
DO NOT WRITE THE POST THEN AND THERE.
#3. Plan the End Result First
Well a good article always has a Quality. Its that you can always relate the first & the last paragraph. So we will focus on the final paragraph from the very first. The final paragraph means the outcome of the post in a nutshell, some more advices & finally some encouragement to Comment or to subscribe.
#4. Write “only” while you Write
Very important in time saving. You should focus on the content & content only while you are writing. Forget about the gramatical mistakes or typos that are happening in the process. It kills time. We should come to this errors later on.
#5. Try to Divide the Post in Paragraphs as Many as Possible
Now that you are aware of what points you have to cover & where you have to conclude you are ready to start the writing. Now while writing try to split the post into as many paragraphs as possible. But do not EXAGGERATE.
#6. Try to Use Points & Bullets
It is always good for the readers if they get to read a procedure or a learn an idea in short but illustrative points. It is good in two means. They never get bored & secondly you have less probability of mistakes as when you will be double checking your own post, two points are easily distinguishable.
#7. Go for the Typos & Grammatical Errors
Now that you finished with the writing go for the typing errors or grammatical errors that was left behind. This is good to do it now because it will make you read your post once again. But while reading concentrate on the grammar & not the topic of content.
#8. Give it a Final Read
Now with all errors fixed give it another final read concentrating on the topic of the content. Go on checking the note that you prepared during the research. This will ensure that you have not missed anything.
#9. Add the Images, Links & Read again
With all the writing part done go for the links that is needed to be put on any text that you completed writing right now. After this is done add the images in places where its necessary. Now after this give it another read for doing the highlighting(bold, italic, header tags) on texts.
#10. Do the Other Stuffs
- Now all things done go for the category selection, filling up the all in SEO pack info & the tags etc etc
- And those who practice off-page SEO fix up the stuffs here. Rest ignore this point.
#11. Hit the Publish Button
Well that’s all for now. Share your views on this post through your valuable comments. Happy Blogging !!!
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I think u sud hav written 10 steps instead of 11 in title. I cant count 11th one as any step
Hmm Good point
But i didn’t feel anything wrong in hitting publish : ):)
Haa! Lax its good that you wrote 11 steps. Doesn’t matter what it is. 10 is so common.
Hmmm Great idea that is
How about 13 steps? Hehehe. 13 seems unique too because most people Do not want to use 13 because they say it’s bad luck.
I really like this post Lax!
Lax a nice article on how to write good article but I Do not agree with your title. It says “without wasting time” your point 2 says to do research and it consumes too much time. I have no problem with the research but your title is misleading.
You should think before putting your heading.
I think its correct. If you plan those steps one by one and start working, obviously you’ll save your time. Research should be done always, as we are not born intelligent s
Appreciate your point 
I understand your point too. If people Do things in a step wise manner or in organized way. They will save time.
Obviously
Many bloggers write and link as they go. Its nice to see a layout.
Good that you found it useful. Thanks for the comments dude..!
hey good post for new blogger,time is money so always don’t waste time.
Good quote that is dude.. Thanks for taking time for that.
I just want to quote what Black eyed peas mentioned in one of their songs, “time is money and money is time. some has time but they don’t have money and some has money but they don’t have time.”
So my question is, is time really equates to money? and Money equates to time?
Hey Renino great quote, i agree with you time can never eqaute to money, if you have one thing other tend to make it unbalanced. My most of time is wasted in research.
I would like to say that write a post in a proper flow. Jumbling up the order or the flow of the post makes it clutter up.
Didn’t get exactly… I found its good option.
Thanks for sharing tips, I am really bad in proof reading my articles. It’s bit tough for me to find mistakes in the article which I write. But trying to improve myself.
You can improve it very easily. Keep rocking..!
Wow! Writing a post with such kind of discipline seems a breeze.
I really love the part that you pay attention to rereading the article. It is one part that I had at fault on my early stages of blogging.
Ohh so you over came that anyway. Good dude..thanks for taking time to share that..!
Always we should write post related to our Expertise because it will a pleasure to write for us and also we will deliver our best cos its what we are expert in ..
That is very important dude..You can get good outcome if you try to link it with your real time exp.
Should we consider the keyword research for the article post? I think we should make an optimized article for the benefits of our blog.
I mean an Optimized Article could help our article would be indexed in SERPS.
But anyway, I learn from the article above. I would follow some tips I didn’t done before. Thank you for the tips.
Great that you found it useful. I would say its good to research, but not only on keywords
Good one dude
I have also written a post about how to effectively write a blog post
Cheers
Great dude..so we can learn from there too
Cool, more gurus for beginners.
Yes, its important that you have sufficient knowledge in the blogging topic. don’t copy paste 100% posts with a credit.
Hmm that a bad thing we see in newbies. They think that you can copy by giving credits
But they don’t know that its allowed only for couple of words or lines.
I know lot of blogs, giving two three sentences and with a read from source link or source abcd.com
#4 is the most important step….FOCUS is what a blogger needs to write a good and attractive post
Yes, thanks for taking time to share your thought here dude..!
Another great post. I liked the idea of using 11 instead of 10. Gets your attention quickly huh
Hmm Thanks dude..
These are really good tips.
I often get distracted by grammar and typos. I started out by typing my posts directly into WordPress. Now I type them into Word Doc, so the spell check can Do its thing and then copy paste it over to wordpress. That saves me a lot of time and if I accidentally hit delete instead of publish at least I have the rough draft.
I also do the same thing for comments. I type them into Word and then paste them into the Comment field. There’s nothing worse than leaving comments with a bunch of typos. LOL ?
That’s good work around you’re following. Nothing wrong in improving by any means. Great work dude..!
I would like to add my ideas regarding this tips.
First. You can choose a topic of what you already knew that you want to share to others.
Then Do some research to add the information you want to fill on it.
It is not necessary that you must share an information where already an expert on that field because we always begin on the first step.
Second. Always bring a pen and paper wherever you go because sometimes related information would pop up in our mind, when we are away from our computer.
List those information then write and expand it while you are writing.
Most bloggers gain their expertise after they learn and experience what they want to learn. Even though you are not a master on the field you choose, you could be an expert after some times past by that you always thirsty to learn more and apply what you learn to get more experiences.
Great sharing dude.. Thanks a lot for all your efforts.
I find this additional tip helpful. Thanks for sharing. I also experience this while I’m traveling back home. When I Do, I use my cellphone to note down what I have in mind and then later upload it when I got the chance to post the new topic.
You have a good writing style Lax, I agree with you with the #5 split post in more paragraph. In fact, I prefer read post in short paragraph, easier for reading. Normally I will skip long paragraph and without any bold or italic wording because I’ll think there is nothing important in this paragraph.
Between, Lax are you a full time blogger? Or you’re student and have a lot of free time online in a day? I wonder how can you update your blog in daily basis, this is something I can’t Do everyday due to busy workload and part time studies.
I work as a software engineer in an MNC here in India. You can read about me in my About page
Great! Your occupation can be something related internet or online thingy, that would be really fun and I’m sure you like you job and what you’re doing right now.
I’m working as a Quantity Surveyor (Construction field), it’s something not related to online thingy, but I love blogging and I love what I’m doing right now.
Great to know you and perhaps we can work out something together in future!
My work is IT related too. I’m a Java Programmer. But i think, being techie is not really a huge advantage as compared to being able to write interesting topics. I don’t have that kind of talent.
Thanks for this. It really helped. I Do some of you mentioned but sadly my posts do not always come up of what I want. I lack content and the language makes it more hard for me. I’m still practicing my english language, though.
It is really important to split the post in paragraph. But with it you also need some points that you must stress out (like making the important point bold). That will give uniqueness to the look of the post.
Exactly Ricky. That’s what I try to Do when writing posts with different links or topics involved. I can’t stand having to trawl through a mass of words.
Great Post
Nice interesting guidelines there. If your a expert in the niche your writing about then you’ll obviously be faster in writing your content.
Problem is that when your going to write content about a niche you know absolute nothing about it’s going to take a long time to write a post, because you’ll first need to Do some good solid research and after that still be able to pull out a decent article.
Great post again.
Becoming a daily habit to publish useful posts lol
I have a question though. I have seen some people merging articles from different sources to come up with a brand new article. Is this approach ok? If I’m to Do it, Am I now violating any “copyright” thing?
I don’t think you are Renino, as long as it’s not 100% copied, and if you Do use some content, then you should link back.
For human, maybe it’s OK
But for search engine system, maybe it’s against copyright. For playing safe, just use the feature from copyscape.com
I’ve seen loads of people merge a few articles to build a whole new unique article. As long as it’s 100% unique you won’t get penelized by Google
This post is best for me. i seldom update my blog since i have nothing in my mind to post..this is really a great help
and one more point try to subscribe to other same targeted niche blog via email it will help you in getting article idea.
I just can Do 10 step of that 10 step. I can’t do step no.7 because grammar is about our languange skill. English is not my mother languange, so i don’t know if i’m make mistake on my grammar or no
A nice selection of tips here. I particular like #4 – “Write “only” while you Write”. Get the content down first and save the editing until later, otherwise you won’t be able to flow, and hence waste time.
Yes, i’m wasted time because of it also. I Do a lot of mistypo since i need to seeing keyboard when i’m typing, and i’m directly correcting when i’m aware of it. I’ll try to think about the error only after i finished the article
. Thanks..!!!
On macs, typos are underlined as you type, wherever you write, just like in Word. It’s a great feature. Don’t think it’s standard in Windows, but I haven’t used a pc for a long time.
Actually word already have “correcting system” for a misstypo but it’s based on the type of mistypo itself.
For example, when i type “systme”, word will directly change it to “system”. But if i Do mistype such “heaby”, it’s not changed to “heavy”.
These points are very much useful.I’ll surely consider this while writing my next post.
Just as other’s said, i too want to tell you that, this post would be more attractive if you had used ‘10′ instead of ‘11′
Good luck
I am lacking in point number 2 and 7, that is research and Go for the Typos & Grammatical Errors, but as english is my second language i keep on improving it, and research is surely what i am working on currently.
Great post. My 1 cent to this post.
Also try to set the title by doing some research on the net for better SERP
I did like you said above..hahahaa..approximate my style..
add , try translation using google translate. it become cross language