7 Essential Must-Haves for your New Blog Post

For every new blog post, there are 7 essential must-haves that are key to triggering an excellent rating with both your audience and search engines. do you spend a lot of time creating stellar blog content but your web traffic shows no return? No engagement, little views — each new blog post just continues to disappoint you until you decide one day that even though you love writing, the posting part just isn’t for you.

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I have news for you, my friend. Blogging is for you! Truthfully, blogging is for everyone. Anyone with a smartphone and a wifi connection can post a blog and a few affiliate links and make enough money to live comfortably from month to month and the mad science behind this is so simple.

They took the time to learn the basics.

These simple tips and tricks I’m about to share with you, (all of which I learned through trial and much error) is all you need to create a worthy blog post. Keep in mind the idea, the entire foundation of the content is up to you. It’s your job to keep your reader intrigued long enough to read start to finish. Your content must be engaging and solve your reader’s problem. It must also be easy to read so if you’re working with a thesaurus toss that sucker right now. I mean it. Toss it. Most importantly, your post must be SEO-friendly; but we’ll get to that.

The Important Steps to Creating an Engaging Blog Post

1. Create a Catchy Title

You’re a human being with eyeballs and as such, it’s likely you have every platform of social media so you obviously know that when scrolling through your feed you are going to be bombarded with headlines left and right. Some true, some fake, some borderline. You are more apt to click on a title named, “5 Ways Chocolate Will Help you Lose Weight” as Opposed to something entitled, “Confirmed Reports say Chocolates Origins Contribute to Minute Percentage of Weight Loss in Caucasian Male American Population.” What a mouthful. I stopped reading that while typing it. What a snooze fest, right?

Your post title is the first thing that will be seen on social media platforms and in search engines. It has to catch your audience’s eye; lure them in so they read your title and…