How to Write Better Blog Posts?

Hurray. Someone has landed on your blog!

Hopefully, you’ve created something wonderful that fascinates them.

This visitor is likely looking for something informative and shareable.

If you aren’t able to capture that visitor’s attention within the first 15 seconds, they’ll go back to that search engine and try again!

The team at Blackandise knows about the difficulties of content creation. So while you are here, expect to learn a few tips about writing better for your audience.

Do you want to write better to rank your blog?

You probably want to know what other bloggers are doing to succeed. We had this same question a few years ago. And we were able to figure out what works!

Most blog niches have similar leaders. One of the best ways you can learn how to write better to rank higher is to check out your Google competition. When you review the websites on page 1-2 of Google, you’re able to get an idea of what works to rank higher.

Sadly, you’ll need a premium website ranking checker tool to get easy to read data from these page 1 websites.

For now, here are 4 useful tips to write better blog posts.

You need to write content in a conversational tone!

When people read things, they are reading with a conversational tone in their head.

So when you write, you want to write in a way that is familiar with the average reader. And that is writing like that voice in that conversational tone that people always hear in their head.

Your audience will not want to read anything that is too different. You want to write as if you’re having a regular conversation.

Successful bloggers, marketers and most of the people on social media love to write in this tone. So why not keep everything in a tone that will easily connect with others.

Here are a few reasons why you want to write in the conversational tone.

• The conversational tone is easier to write. It’s more natural and should allow you to save time instead of thinking if something is written correctly.
• The conversational tone will help your audience connect with random visitors. This will allow you to connect better with others instead of looking like a complete stranger with an unknown blog.
• The conversational tone is natural. This way people will want to interact with you and don’t think you are a robot.

How to write in a conversational tone?

If you’re trying to explain something technical to your non-technical friend, then you want to write using a conversational tone instead of a classroom lecture.

Most likely your audience isn’t as technical as you think, and even if they are, you should find another way to explain your complicated explanations.

These are a few simple rules to write in the conversational tone:

• You can write like you’re talking to a friend. Write your blog posts as if you’re having a regular conversation. Simply write the same way you talk.
• You should say it out loud before you type it. If saying it out loud sounds weird, then other people reading it will probably think it’s weird as well.
• You can use those 1st or 2nd person pronouns. It is okay to use “you”, “we”, and “I” in your articles, just don’t overdo it.

Keep it simple here. The conversational tone is all about talking to your audience in a natural way.

You should write short and simple paragraphs!

You probably don’t know your audience. Let’s assume that your audience has a short attention span. This is why writing short and simple paragraphs is a good starting point.

The amount of content online is increasing at a rapid rate. And social media is gradually doing something weird with our attention spans. So you want to avoid writing huge walls of text.

Keep it short and simple so your audience will not have to sift through dense paragraphs. There are some blogs that are able to be successful with dense content, however, if you aren’t knowledgeable about typography and white spacing then keep your paragraphs short and simple.

If your content is too dense, your audience will likely go to a competing blog filled with bullet points and funny gifs.

How to write simple and short paragraphs?

Writing simple and short paragraphs is easy. Instead of using that comma, use a period! There are more tricks to writing shorter paragraphs.

These are a few rules to writing simpler paragraphs:

• You want your short and simple paragraphs to have around 4 – 6 short sentences. This is one of those tested theories from those successful bloggers ranking on page 1 of Google.
• You should avoid using commas. See if your thought can be written without a comma. We know this is a hard rule to follow. Another successful blogger theory that works.
• You can try grouping your topics into small subtopics. These thoughts will be quick to the point and related to your main topic. This will create a paragraph that is easier to read. Most of your audience may be great readers but even great readers appreciate simplicity.
• You should avoid using big words without justification. Depending on your blog niche, of course, you want to keep the vocabulary around a six-grade level.
• You want to use bullet points or numbered lists. If something is really important, try using bullet points or numbered lists in your content.

Another reminder to keep things short and simple. You can still say a lot by grouping your thoughts together. And using an extra line break here and there.

You need to care about your blog niche!

Let others know that you actually know and care about your blog niche.

You need to do proper research and have a strong passion for whatever you’re writing about to succeed. There are exceptions to this rule, especially if you have money to spend. However, for most bloggers, you need to have a passion for the blog niche before you have any success.

Without a passion for your blog niche, your content will be extremely lackluster.

Before you create your new blog, make sure you plan to create a blog about something that you care about. We have an article with a few blog niche ideas and blog post topic ideas.

How to write as if you care about your blog niche?

Your blog posts should sound natural while giving off the impression that you care about your blog niche.

If you are not passionate about it, save yourself some time and write about something that you do have a passion for if you want to be a successful blogger.

These are a few simple rules to write as if you care about your blog niche:

• You can write go in-depth with some topics. Do this while keeping everything in a conversational tone or stuffing the article with keywords.
• You should tell a story to your audience. Connect with your audience on an emotional level by telling them things that will make you happy, sad, excited, etc.
• You want to avoid rants. Your audience will most likely not want to read a rant unless that is your brand.

Remember that simply talking as if you love your blog niche will do wonders. Don’t try to fake it, your audience will quickly figure out that you don’t care about the topic.

You should use images in your content!

Most blogs will benefit from having a pretty image somewhere in the blog post.

These images are great to catch the eyes of those not totally reading the headlines.

Simply using nice relevant images is great for readers and search engine optimization.

How to use images in your content?

• You should only use relevant images. Never try to trick people with irrelevant images in your content.
• You can use captions for your images. Captions are a great way to help people understand your images. Using a caption is great practice for accessibility compliance. And search engines love to read your text (and alt tags, of course) such as captions.
• You want to keep captions short and sweet. Don’t add an entire paragraph to your caption text.

Having images in your blog posts is definitely a benefit. Don’t overdo it with the images but having at least one image is great for the people that love to share content.

Conclusion

No one is perfect with this blog writing stuff. So try not to stress over any of it.

If your blog is ranking now keep doing what you are doing.

If not, then maybe you can try our suggestions in a future blog post. When you see some more traffic coming to your blog, then you can update some of your old content day by day.

Good luck!