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✅ Good reasons to Post
- You are the only person in the world with this information, and other people might want to know it (publishing something new)
- Fanfic (any)
- To share how to do something, so other people can learn it 👀
- To tell a story
- Just for fun, to be entertaining
- To announce something your audience will be interested in
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
why I must write about something?
Classic mistake: Writing about what you find interesting
You already know that QPU movement takes a lot of speed, and it’s incredible that there’s a slope that’s just right for Mario to walk up it for 12 hours building up speed.
But unless your audience is in exactly the right niche, they don’t know what the heck you’re talking about, so they just... See more
You already know that QPU movement takes a lot of speed, and it’s incredible that there’s a slope that’s just right for Mario to walk up it for 12 hours building up speed.
But unless your audience is in exactly the right niche, they don’t know what the heck you’re talking about, so they just... See more
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
❎ Bad reasons to Post
- Someone told you that you have to write about this
- “For visibility”
- What does that mean ?
- Is it visible if nobody reads it 🤔
- Need somewhere to remember all your passwords
- To encourage people to buy your product
- The post is now an ad
- Who would read it on purpose?
- To document how something you made works
- Might be better in wiki format
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
:)) the author is hillarious and I like them
The title should represent the post as much as possible. It should prepare the reader emotionally for the clown carnival ride you are about to take them on.
It should be the opposite of clickbait.
It should be the opposite of clickbait.
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
how should we title a blogpost?
yes yes yes:
i’m begging you not to do this:
I discovered bees can talk but unfortunately they are racist
i’m begging you not to do this:
It’s not just Barry from Bee Movie who might have a secret
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
what should a title of a blog post look like?
Put a summary at the top maybe?
You wanna let the reader quickly decide whether to read your post or not. Maybe they get what they wanted just from the summary, and can just stop reading there, instantly winning you a Nobel Peace Prize but for like, blogging.
You wanna let the reader quickly decide whether to read your post or not. Maybe they get what they wanted just from the summary, and can just stop reading there, instantly winning you a Nobel Peace Prize but for like, blogging.
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
Constantly ask yourself: Does the person reading this know what the heck I’m talking about?
This is the most common thing I say, possibly ever, but definitely when reviewing people’s blog posts.
This is the most common thing I say, possibly ever, but definitely when reviewing people’s blog posts.
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
In the first few sentences, you want the reader to know:
- Who is this for?
- What’s going to happen?
Alex • I Give You Feedback on Your Blog Post Draft but You Don't Send It to Me
how to write a summary for the blog post?
Constantly ask yourself: Does the person reading this know what the heck I’m talking about?