In episode #563, Eric and Neil lay out what they do with their blog posts and how it helps them succeed. Tune in to hear some great blogging tips!
TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:
- 00:27 Today’s Topic: The Bare Minimum You Should Do With Every Blog Post You Publish
- 00:38 Neil thinks he’s published 6,000-7,000 blog posts.
- 00:57 Neil always has a simple checklist for writing blog posts.
- 01:12 When using BuzzSumo, you need to look at what has worked in the last year.
- 01:33 Go after social traffic and search traffic (SEMrush).
- 01:52 Come up with better headlines, outline the post, then complete it.
- 02:11 Go above and beyond and be super thorough.
- 02:21 Add custom images from stock photos or graphs.
- 02:31 Email everyone you link out to in your post.
- 03:00 Reach out to everyone who shared similar articles and direct them to your article.
- 03:38 Take the article and put it into Ahrefs and see who links to it.
- 04:05 Eric’s strategy: automate the process of sharing to your social channels using Zapier.
- 04:39 Blogging Checklist is a great plug-in for WordPress.
- 04:55 Have a word count, image count, source count, etc. and put it on the checklist.
- 05:24 Think about how to upgrade or repurpose your content.
- 05:43 That’s it for today!
- 05:45 Go to Singlegrain.com/Giveway for a special marketing tool giveaway!
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