Top 1 Best Blogging Post Tips Techniques To Make Money Online
For those of you wondering about the headline, you MUST read Ian Lurie’s recent posting, “The Perfect Blog Post”.
If your goal is to
quit your day job
and make a living online off of ad revenue generated by your very popular blog then you should print off Lurie’s article and treat it as the gospel in your writing endeavors.
If, on the other hand, your goal is to be a professional writer, then you also should print off Lurie’s article and do your best to incorporate whatever you can into your writings to ensure your current survival. Then you can hope that one day, the search engines update their algorithms in order to favor useful, well written, content over that which was purposely written to contain a specific searched-for phrase in the title tag and then is linked to from wherever for whatever reason.
It is apparent that Ian is a “real” writer and, like me, has some issues with some of the things that make one “successful” on today’s Google driven (and thus blogger driven). And, while we both understand them, we don’t have to always like them. So, we play along thanks to a realistic world attitude that understands that success does not always beat a path to the door of the worthy.
I have tried to write this post about 100 times, but have never succeeded in plumping the depths of such “strategies” without sounding bitter. Satire is often the perfect tool for laying bare that which annoys. I will pocket that lesson for the future.
In a single post (under 200 words, I might ad) he has successfully managed to mock, maim, and criticize all of those pandering tactics that are used far and wide by various “online professionals” in the name of SEO to write popular high-traffic blog posts and other online articles. The net result being page after page of worse quality and lesser value, but highly searchable content that will drive your ad earnings up.
By the way, Mr. Lurie, I am sure that our demographic (real writers with souls) is much smaller than their demographic (who cares what it is if it drives traffic), but if you can find it in your hear to link back here using the link text “professional freelance writer”, that would be swell.
Oops, did I just link pander, too? (Yes, yes, give in to your eye rolling, for that is the true power of the dark side.)
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Write What You Know
People keep asking me how they should get ideas for their writing. This question boggles my mind a bit because frankly, as a writer, I have more things rattling around in my head than I can ever hope to write. Of course, what they mean is how can I get ideas to write something right now that fulfils a certain objective. Ah, that’s trickier.
Getting Ideas for Writing
Ideas for what you want to write are not hard to come by. Good ideas can be tougher. It always helps to go back to the basics. In this case, the basics is: Write What You Know.
This may sound like strange advice especially if you don’t “know” the topic you are writing for. But, we all know stuff and it is from there that your ideas will come. Let’s say, for example, that you are writing a piece on microeconomics, a topic which I know very little about, other than it was a college course I may or may not have taken.
Without Googeling, or looking anything up, I already know something. I know some things about economics, and I know what micro means. I also know that micro is a modifying word which means there is such a thing as economics (without the word micro) and maybe even macroeconomics (the opposite of micro). There may even be some in between ground (smalleconomics?). There is idea one: The difference between micro and the other kinds of economics.
Not what you are looking for? Probably not, but from there we can carry on. Is microeconomics the kind of thing you can support and oppose? Is it the kind of thing that you can believe in or not believe in? Has it been in the news recently? Should it be? And so on.
Bringing In Outside Ideas
Now, add in the knowledge you have from the rest of your life. Are you a chef? How does microeconomics affect you? Is it killing the restaurant business? How about your suppliers? Would either on of them be more efficient if they took heed of microeconomic concepts, and so on.
The idea is to keep spinning your mind around this track until you hit on an idea that makes you think you’ve got something good.
Idea Generating Tips
Here are some good questions to ask regarding your topic to help generate ideas.
- Is this good or bad?
- Does anyone know about this?
- Should more people know about this?
- What would people do if they knew about this?
- How long has this been going on?
- Who does this affect?
- Who cares about this but shouldn’t?
- Has it been in the news?
- Can this be spun?
- What happens if I take the opposite?
- Would my mom care?
- Would my kids care?
- Is the government involved? (Helping? Messing it up?)
Keep working with your concept. Eventually you’ll have something you care enough about to research it. When you get there, you’ve got your idea. Chances are that as you do your research your idea will change or become completely different. That is good. It doesn’t matter if a good idea was your first one, only that it is a good one.
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