Building content for a new blog can be extremely formulaic. I find it’s actually easiest to get the first ten to fifteen articles built before writing starts to get more challenging. That’s because after you write the first set of articles, you need to start getting creative. I’m going to give you a blueprint for building those initial articles and we’ll cover on-going content in a later post.
Creating the Initial Content
This really depends a lot on your niche, but I’ll try to give you the building blocks for building that initial push towards bringing your blog online. The core step to launching your blog is building the initial content. I say ‘building’ instead of writing, because this is extremely formulaic in nature. The goal is to create ten articles to cover your first month of content release, so you don’t want to throw all of your knowledge into one article. Always hold back a little bit of information to give them later. That will keep them coming back AND give you material for later. Also make sure your posts are not more than 700 words. People tend to get bored if they’re much longer than that. If you have a post that is over that, consider breaking it into multiple postings.