6 Steps That Will Help You Write Effective Blog Posts

Writing a great blog post involves a lot of research and effort. The focus should be on communicating your message or idea quickly and powerfully. Blog posts can range from 300-5000 words or more. Irrespective of the length of the blog post, you have got to get the reader’s attention and hold it. Healthcare digital marketing involves creating blog posts to provide information about health-related concerns that readers may have. A good blog will help capture the user’s attention, and build trust and authority with the target audience. Healthcare blogs provide interesting and timely information to visitors, and will more likely convert your visitors.

With high-quality and accessible content, blogs can build a dedicated audience base and increase your website traffic. It is not easy to run successful blogs, for that there are some tips to be followed.

• • Pick an Interesting Topic: The more interested you are in your topic, the more engaged your readers will be when they are reading it. If there is a lack of enthusiasm from the writer’s side, there is nothing like that that can kill your post.Before choosing the right topic, consider these things:
    • Choose what interests you and it should be relevant, don’t pick any topic just because others are making money from that.
    • Don’t write a blog on a topic if you know very little about it.
    • Your blog must have a focus, be careful not to write about too diverse a range of subjects.

    To select a topic for your blog post you must:

    • Be confident.
    • Choose authoritative sources if you depend on third-party information to do research on the topic. This will help you to deliver the right information for the public.
    • Have excellent knowledge.
    • Check your facts.

• • Know Your Audience: Before writing the blog post, understand your target audience. Get to know what they really want to know about and what will resonate with them. To understand your target audience once you have chosen your blog niche, the following tools can be helpful:
    • Quora: Since it is a platform that is based on questions and answers, you can find out what questions people are asking in your blog niche. It is helpful to find tons of insights. First, do a few searches with some basic questions about the important topic in your blog and use “Related Searches” to find the relevant ideas people are talking about.
    • Google search: To find the ideal group of readers, quick search in Google will be helpful. It helps to find the people who are really interested in the information regarding a specific topic.
    • Discussion forums: These are very helpful to discover the main questions of your target audience. People use forums when they need help or want to share information with others. It also helps to find popular keywords in your blog niche.
    • Facebook groups: To find what people are talking about, Facebook groups really help. Search the groups to find out the questions and discussions happening about your blog niche. Seeing those questions and answers people have written about your niche will allow you to find if there is any similarity in what you have found in the discussion forms or to find out whether something important is missing.
    • Other blogs: Compare your blogs with your competitors and try to understand what posts work well for them.
    • Review sites and apps: Review sites and apps will help you understand people’s interests in certain products and services. If yours is a travel blog, then you have to check TripAdvisor. For instance, to provide services in your area or a specific region, check out reviews on Google and Yelp.

    These tools will help you find your target audience. It will help you create content (and products) that match with what your audience are actually looking for. For instance, if your readers are millennials looking to start a business, instead of providing them information about how to get started in social media (most of them already have that down), provide them information about how to adjust their social media approach.

    Deliver your content by understanding your audience by considering their age, gender, location, job, income, education level, personality, marital status, interests and hobbies. This will enable your website to gain more traffic, and also increase conversions.

    

  • Writing a Compelling Headline: Having a compelling headline is crucial for your blog’s success, where it increases the chance of the blog post to be read and shared. When writing a headline, you can use two methods: Either decide your final headline before writing the rest of your blog or write a blog post using a working title and see what is the suitable title when you are done. Putting headlines depends on your audience. It varies according to them. If you decide to put questions as your headlines, be sure your audience is genuinely interested in the question. So, start focusing on your headlines, because headlines are the first point of connection with your prospective customer.

• • The Writing Part: After doing research based on your topic and target audience, and settled on a headline or a working title, next comes the writing part. Choose what works for you, whether it is the writing done in a single sitting or you can chip away at it gradually over time. However, it is better to write in a single sitting, as it helps to stay focused on the topic. It minimizes the chances of missing crucial points and makes the work easier. The more you do it, writing becomes easier. Most people are trying to write the introduction first, a great strategy is to write the introduction last, and get into the meat of the blog post. Unfortunately, there are no hacks to make the writing task easy, you have to strive all by yourself to make it easier.

• Choose Images Effectively: Sometimes people will not have the time or resolve to focus on lengthy posts without visual stimulation. Choosing images tells a story as much as the words do. Diagrams, infographics, charts, and any other visual assets will help readers understand abstract or complex topics and grasp the points you are trying to make. Using good images helps:
  • Your blog post flow more effectively.
  • To make great visual punchlines, mainly if you are writing about a boring topic.
  • To make complex topics easily understandable.

  

• The Editing Part: Editing is not just correcting grammar mistakes or cutting sentences that don’t work. Good editing makes your writing style more effective and increases the clarity of your ideas. It tightens up your content so that it packs a punch and keeps your readers scrolling. Editors view the content differently and a properly edited content affects your business in a good way.Things to consider while editing:
  • Avoid repetitions.
  • To check the flow, read your post aloud.
  • Ask your friend or colleague to read your work.
  • Short sentences and short paragraphs make your audience’s job easier.
  • Don’t be afraid to make cuts if something doesn’t work.

Blogging is a great way to share information about your business and services, and it also allows you to share your opinions and thoughts on particular topics. Consider all these steps while writing a blog to improve your website traffic and also conversions. When it comes to healthcare digital marketing, blogging by creating quality content improves your visibility, and enables current and prospective patients to find you easily online. Consistent blog posts will help improve your credibility and enable you to establish a good relationship with your audience.