Writing a blog post is an art in and of itself. Although blogs tend to be informal in style and structure, you have to take a systematic approach to write them. You must begin with an introduction that provides the objective of your blog post.

You must also explain the reasons why you are writing about that particular topic in the first place.

After a small introduction, you can discuss the details of your topic in the body of your blog. You do this by intelligently organizing your ideas and adding headlines that streamline the blog. Adding headlines (called H1s and H2s in HTML) is extremely important when writing a blog because many people skim through your blog without fully reading it. Those headlines act as an outline that let readers tell what’s where at a glance.

Note: H1 and H2 tags are also important to your site’s SEO

Also, you can’t forget about using tags and categories to define your posts. If you use a CMS like WordPress, you’ve likely encountered them before. Tags and categories let you group blog posts with similar topics together. It helps people find blogs you’ve written on similar topics.

It also helps the SEO of your blog posts. For example, I place all my blogs about blogging tips in my blogging category. I take the same approach when it comes to my personal life, relationship, freelancing, and online course creation strategy blogs.

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• Your first step of blogging
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Finally, finish your blog-writing process by adding a beautiful image to your blog. You can use an image from a free stock photography website or you can buy one from the creative market. Or, if you’d prefer, you can find a blog mockup scene and edit it in Photoshop, Canva, or PicMonkey.

How Should You Decide Which Post to Edit First?

The best answer is Google Analytics. If you have Google Analytics activated in your blog (and you should), you will be able to check which of your blog posts received the most traffic.

Prioritizing blogs with the most traffic is an important strategy for you to understand. For example, I own an academic blog focused on economics. I checked Google Analytics to see which of my posts were viewed most, and the result was:

The above screenshot is Google Analytics traffic information for my economics blog. You can see that “Three Approaches of Calculating GDP” has both the highest number of pageviews and unique pageviews. That this one page has almost 1000 views should give you some insight into how important this post is for my blog.

My next step would be to edit this post and provide more information about how GDP is calculated, as well as the strategy behind it. I could add more headlines and subtitles along with an image. All of these things will attract more uses to this post.

By editing your existing post and including more valuable content, Google will increase your post’s rank over time. You can see that when I write the exact keyword in Google, I find my post on the top of the page.

External and Internal Links

After you learn which posts on your blog are the most important, the next step is to add internal and external links within those posts.

One way to do this is through a “related posts” section that you insert into some of your other blogs. You can manually select these related posts, or you can install plugins (at least on WordPress) that do this automatically. Either way, adding related posts will lead to more traffic to your other posts. This also has the effect of improving dwell time on your blog, which is a positive user-engagement signal that Google will take note of and rank your website higher for. The better engagement your blog gets, the better the chances that your readers will begin to trust you.

Adding Affiliate Links

Once your blog starts getting a fair amount of traffic, a common strategy is to add affiliate links to your posts. Affiliate links are special URLs that provide you with a commission if your website sends a paying customer over to the affiliate. Amazon is the most popular affiliate in the world today.

A good time to add affiliate links to posts is when they generate a lot of traffic. All you have to do is edit the post and insert the affiliate link just like you would any other link.

Note that you shouldn’t try to add affiliate links to your blog posts if the affiliate offer doesn’t relate to your blog in any way. Instead, you should only work with affiliates you trust and who add value to both your blog posts and the product you are marketing.

There are, of course, many other reasons for editing old blog posts but these are probably the ones that are considered most. I hope this post helped you learn how important it is to edit your blog posts and add more valuable content for your readers. It’s all about giving back to your readers!

What other bloggers are doing?

In case you would want to check how others bloggers are quite successful in what they do, you can check out the following ebooks and courses that provide a complete strategy of how to start a money-making-blog and boost your blog traffic. 

Note down the following books that should be a must read in your blog journey, especially in the first year of blogging.

Building a framework: The ultimate blogging handbook

Apart from my paid, unpaid and academic blog, when I decided to start a professional blog, I decided to have Abby Lawson Building a framework ebook that is a comprehensive guide to all that you need to know about Blogging from scratch. Not just that, she has also shared all her details of the way she earns passive income through her lifestyle blog. I kept on following her for months until I decided to get a grip on all the tips and tricks she used to monetize her blog.

The Blog Startup by Meera Kothand

I came to know about Meera Kothand when she was in the initial stages of her new blog (not new anymore, she’s earning good income). What attracted me most was her focus on the details of each blogging step. The Blog startup is one such product that includes the core strategies of understanding the pre-requisites of pro-blogging. From content creation strategies to Monetization tips along with email marketing (for which she is too good at ), she has it all covered.

Amy Lynn Andrews – The KnowtBook

If there is one thing that I would honestly want to share about Amy is her Simplicity of explaining the interconnected phenomenon in blogging. When I first got myself into registered with Amy’s knowtbook, I thought it would turn out to be some basic concepts that I was familiar with. However, it turned out that I knew very little about Money making strategies that she has publicly shared.

Suzi Whitford – Blog by number Signature Course

I can’t tell you how super awesome Suzi has been in teaching how to blog for all the newbie bloggers. I so love everything that she has shared in such an organized and systematic procedure that you are able to understand each and every step due to her through discussion and explanation. Plus its an online course with her Ebook and worksheet that takes you along the complete process of earning passive income in blogging niche

By the way, what do you do with your old published blog posts?