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How To Write Perfect Blog Posts Like Buffer, Derek Halpern, Ghost Blog, Neil Patel, Hubspot Even If You Have Much Experience Writing And Without Taking Months To Learn
Note: Download the FREE The Ultimate Blog Writing Template here.It’s 7 of the Best Blog Writing Templates combined to one.
Have you ever dealt with writer’s block?
Did you ever wonder if you could write faster?
And did you ever forget things that your blog post should have had? Like tags, images, or call to actions.
Today, we will show you how you can solve all these problems with the power of “Blog Writing Templates.”
Why Use Templates?
You may be thinking that using blog writing templates is not so sexy.
And it’s true, using template can be too mechanical, robotic at first.
But…
Eventually once you get the hang of it. It’s predictability will give you more room to be creative in your writing.
In addition to that, it also allow you to maintain quality, consistency and predictable results.
So today, we list down 8 of the Best Blog Blog Writing Templates out there. From marketing institutions, master bloggers and very smart writers.
But first…
What Are The Benefits Of Using Templates
Let’s dive in more on what incredible benefits you will get if you start using writing templates.
Here are some of them:
1) Guide you through the process.
A writing template will guide you on what things to do first, second, third and so on. In a manner that makes sense.
It will also remind you of the things that you keep on forgetting.
2) Remind you that your first draft can (and will) be ugly.
It’s a common mistake for newbies that they try to get the first draft perfect. Editing as they write and stopping the flow of ideas. Eventually leading them to be stuck.
Having a template to guide you through the process will remind you to:
Allow yourself to write ugly, imperfect grammar, bad spelling in the first draft
Edit this later by correcting grammar, being more conversational, cutting long paragraphs, etc.
3) Remind you that it will get better later.
By following a set process, you get to be at ease in writing your thoughts down. With the assurance that you will go back and edit it later.
4) Editing.
Remind you to edit your work. And about the things you should look for while editing. Such as checking the grammar, checking spellings, cutting unnecessary words, etc.
5) Put a call to action
Maximize all your blog posts by never forgetting to put a call to action.
These call to actions can be to:
sign-up in email list
buy a product
book a consultation
invite you to talk
help in your new project
share it on social media
comment below
6) Images, Images, Images.
According to localvox:
“Articles with images get 94% more views.”
Apart from getting more views. Blog posts with images are more likely to be read from start to end and shared.
Having images also helps break the monotony of long articles.
7) Promotion
At least 80% of content marketing is about well…
Marketing and promoting your content.
Unless you already have a strong following. Your blog posts will almost certainty get no views, comments and shares unless…
You promote it.
And having a system to follow will make sure that you promote your content every single time.
Now that you know some of the benefits of using templates.
Let’s get on to the Best Blog Writing Templates!
The Best Blog Writing Templates
These are the best of the best blog writing templates out there.
They are templates that we will use ourselves. And are instrumental to helping us build “The Ultimate Blog Writing Template”.
Let’s start our list with…
#1: 5 Downloadable Templates From Hubspot
“there’s no longer any reason you can’t sit down every day and hammer out an excellent blog post.”
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Written and brought together by Rachel Sprung | @rsprung for hubspot.
It contains 5 different blog writing templates. That walks you through the process of writing the following type of blog posts:
- The How-To Post
- The List-Based Post
- The Curated Collection Post
- The SlideShare Presentation Post
- The Newsjacking Post
These templates are so detailed that if you diligently follow the steps laid out in them. It’s impossible to write an ugly blog post.
Here’s the fundamental flow of the templates:
1) Understand your audience.
2) Start with a topic and working title.
3) Write an intro (and make it captivating).
4) Organize your content.
5) Write!
6) Edit/proofread your post, and fix your formatting.
Featured Image
Visual Appearance
Topics/Tags
7) Insert a call-to-action (CTA) at the end.
8) Optimize for on-page SEO.
Meta Description
Page Title and Headers
Anchor Text
Mobile Optimization
9) Pick a catchy title.
It’s systematic and easy-to-follow that you can use it side-by-side while writing your blog posts.
In fact, it’s so good that my Ultimate Blog Post Template is based on these templates.
You can read through the general process and get the link to download the 5 templates hubspot here.
Basic method of writing you can takeaway from this guide is:
Research
Write
Edit
Format
These templates are straight forward and has links leading to more detailed articles.
Like:
For:
To help you even more, there are fill-in-the blanks examples.
Like this:
With this step-by-step guides you will be making perfect blog posts every single time.
Next on our list is another one from hubspot. This one will kill all your excuses…
#2: The Foolproof Formula For Writing A Solid Blog Post Template
Written by Corey Eridon | @Corey_bos for hubspot.
Contains a excuse-killing fill-in-the-blank template.
During times when you find it hard to get started. And this template is excellent for such situations.
Here is the basic template from the guide:
1) Introduction
Have you ever tried to …..
2) Body
If you’re looking for….
3) Conclusion
Now that you know….
The guide which you can see here contains the full template.
So go to the article here.
Fill in the blanks.
Get your writing juice flowing. It doesn’t have to be perfect on the first draft.
And no, you don’t even need to have your research done to start.
By filling up this template, you will figure out what things you need to research about. And things you can do to make the second draft a whole lot better.
Third on our list is template is good but can get better. So I added my own ideas below…
#3: The 5 Step Template For Writing Amazing Blog Posts
Written by Jonathan Goodman of Viralnomics.
Inside is this Steal-able 5-Step Template:
1) Tell a story related to your topic:
It’s Wednesday at…..
2) Identify the problem from your story:
….. right on time to cancel the session — again.
3) Re-state the problem in general terms that apply to your reader:
Personal training isn’t easy….
4) Lay out the steps to solving:
There’s no example on this article. But Jonathan does use one leading to the template, it’s:
“Finally it’s time to….”
5) Conclusion:
Here’s what Jonathan recommend to use or conclusions:
1) A thought-provoking quote
2) A famous quote
3) Leave a surprise joke
Sidenote: Personally, I find Jonathan’s ideas for conclusions hard to use, especially in regards to the target audience I have.So here are some ideas that I choose from for writing conclusions:1) TL;DR — Too Long; Don’t Read — from Reddit and forum culture. Quick outline of the content.2) To sum up….3) Ask a question4) Leave an assignment — something I see Bryan Harris of Video Fruit doing and Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich doing.This template is excellent for writing story-driven blog posts. And as we know story sells.
Sidenote: This article emphasized the importance of systems. And if you want to learn more about systems. I encourage to check out the works of Michael Gerber’s “E-Myth”, Procedure People, John Warrilow’s “Build To Sell”, and Sam Carpenter’s “Work The System.”
Here is the basic method on this article:
1) Tell a story related to your topic.
2) Identify the problem from your story.
3) Re-state the problem in general terms that apply to your reader.
4) Lay out the steps to solving.
5) Conclusion
Now go to the article here.
Get ideas flowing.
And if you get stuck on step 4 and/or 5 go back here and see my ideas for those parts.
Number 4 on our list is by a writer, who I really like the work of, in Buffer and Ghost blogs.
And this guide by her claims to increase your writing speed by as much as 600%…
more content writing samples at: Gerome Soriano – Medium
