Piaras Kelly (pkellypr.com) wrote a wonderful article on his blog. He gives 12 useful tips on writing content for your blog. Here’s the summary:

1. Use catchy titles – this is useful for people who read your blog through RSS feed.
2. Be unique – there are so many blogs in the internet. If you want people to read your blog and visit regularly, you have to give them something unique, something that they won’t find on another blogs.
3. Make sure to credit your sources – Darren (problogger.net) mentioned about this on his post here. Stealing content is bad, but stealing without giving proper credit is the worst of all.
4. Think before you post – there’s no need to rush, one good quality post per day is better than 10 poor quality post.
5. Stay on topic – If your blog focus on specific topic, you have to stay on topic. It’s okay if you post one or two unrelated topic, but too much will turn your loyal visitors away.
6. Link, it’s polite – if your content refer to another website, give a link to it. Your reader would love it.
7. Be conversational in tone – make your content as if you’re talking with your reader.
8. Respond to comments – make a relationship with your reader by responding to their comments.
9. When to post – find out the right time to publish your post. Weekend’s traffic usually lower than work day. You can always use your site stats to learn the best time to publish your post.
10. Be controversial – tell your blog’s readers what you have in mind, don’t hide anything. Afterall, it’s your own blog, right?
11. Blogging is not email – no need to be too formal.
12. Assuming makes an ass out of u and me – don’t assume your readers know about something in the past. If your content mention above something in the past, give them a description about it, and maybe, refer them to your previous post about that.

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