In this post’s conclusion, Jon uses all he’s had to overcome in life to show readers that they have no excuses: no matter hard things get, they can accomplish anything they set their minds to.
Subheads have the same function as headlines; they must make readers curious so they keep reading. So you should follow similar rules when drafting them and avoid the following common blunders:
In his conclusion, Robert van Tongeren motivates you to repurpose old blog posts by comparing them to epic musical classics; if they disappeared into obscurity simply because they’re old, we’d all be at a great loss.
Liz Careathers, Esq. worked as an instructor in Jon’s guest blogging course for two years editing the posts of hundreds of students. She now writes to empower her readers at StrongSensitiveSouls.com while raising her two little girls. Download her free Checklist for Writing Blog Posts that Emotionally Engage Your Audience.
Yes, blogging is text-based, but images complete the message you’re conveying. They provide aesthetic appeal, break up the text, and illustrate your examples. All in all, using the right images provides a great experience for the reader.
This is usually the part where you have a call to action (CTA) asking them to sign up for your mailing list. This is also where you ask them to share your post, invite them to comment, read other posts, etc.
Yes, search engines will provide you with answers if you know how to search for it. But how reliable are your sources? The website or blog may be reliable, but it may already be secondhand, even third-hand information. Try to find your sources’ sources.
Building trust involves proving that you’re trustworthy. Show your readers proof that the solution you’re describing actually works. Demonstrate that your solution is practical. If it works for you, it will probably work for them.
What are sound bites? A sound bite is a short message, often no longer than 10 words, that describes the main idea of your content. Using sound bites is a good idea because they’re easy-to-remember, easy-to-quote, and often get shared.
The blog post is an instructor’s reflection, summary, and analysis of an environmental humanities course and the resource website developed by the students as a final project. These images effectively communicate what the blog is saying about our knowledge of the world, which in greatest part is from maps.
What blog posts can do. Blogging, or writing short entries on a website, can allow you to offer opinions, share ideas, or do independent reporting , but most importantly, blogging can help writers have conversations with readers. What makes blogs so different from journalism, as the authors of The Elements of Blogging: Expanding the Conversation ...
In The Elements of Blogging, Mark Leccese and Jerry Lanson dissect blog posts in order to identify and examine their key parts. Below are some of the elements they highlight as well as some examples from local blogs.