For example, what can you do if you need to publish an article on your blog within the same day, but you have many other things to do?

Is there a guide to follow in order to create quality content for your blog in a short time?

Of course, there are some steps you can follow.

So here are my tips on how to write a blog post of good quality in an emergency situation.

1. Be Free of Distractions

You know you have limited time, so be sure to avoid any possible distractions while you dedicate yourself to write the content.

The ideal situation should be to remove completely the internet connection and have just your text editor open.

No Twitter, no Facebook, no emails.

Personal tip : 

It may seem weird, but I use earplugs : in this way there is no noise that bother me and I can just focus on writing.

2. Choose an Idea Quickly

Basically, you have to decide quickly what topic you will write about in your blog post.

For example, you can rely on these sources of inspiration :

– what you like to write about in this very moment;

– an important news that concerns your niche;

– a comment on a particularly challenging post of an  influential blogger;

– the deepening or the refreshment of topics covered in an old post of your blog;

– write about important research or studies that relate to your niche.

3. Write the Post

This is the stage in which you do the real work.

Here are some recommendations to get results that are satisfactory :

– write down the most important points of your post. Then you can develop them;

– keep in mind what is the target to which you are addressing;

– write the post all in one breath, and only at a later time you can worry about editing your text;

– a good post should be authoritative, so be sure to always cite the sources of data or facts that you refer to in your content;

– write in a simple way.

Your goal in the post is to produce something interesting and useful for your readers.

4. Format the Content

This part should be easy, if you are a blogger with some experience.

You should add the correct punctuation and divide the content into short paragraphs.

You need also to evaluate the placement of links for further information, which can be either internal (ie links to your old blog posts) and external (ie links to quality resources written by other bloggers).

5. Proofread

When you have finished the post, make a 2 minute break, and then begin the proofreading.

You should read your content at least twice, in order to track all the mistakes or misspellings.

You can use online tools like Paperrater, to boost this process.

When you think your article is ready to be published, then you should read it once again.

You Can Promote Your Post Now

All right.

You’ve been so good to quickly complete your task, that you can still invest some time in market your content.

In order to promote your post you can:

– share it on the most popular social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn;

– share it on websites for content curation (such as Scoop.it);

– inform the publication of your post to some of the most influential bloggers in your niche, especially those you mentioned. You can do this easily by commenting on their latest blog posts;

– share the content on the most popular blogging communities, like Klinkk.

Conclusion

You’ve just read some important tips to consider when you need to write an article in a short time.

For example, this post was written by following these points.

What do you think?

Can you write a good article in less than an hour?

Do you have some other suggestions to add?

Please share your experience in the comments below, thanks!

You can also send updates about latest offers, latest news, and latest guides to your subscribers. Having a lot of subscribers is one of the reasons why blogs like Social Media Examiner and Content Marketing Institute have had a lot of success. So it’s absolutely necessary to have subscribers for your blog too.

Below are 5 tips which can help you get more newsletter subscribers

1. Have a sign up form on the header

One of the quickest ways to get someone to subscribe is by placing the sign up form on your header. If you place it on your header it will be the first thing your readers will see. So they will be more likely to sign up as soon as they visit your website.

An e.g. is Chris Brogan’s website where you have a sign up form on the header. If you visit the website you will see that it is first thing anyone who visits the home page will see.

2. Use Pop-overs

Some people avoid using pop-overs, because they feel that it might disturb their readers, but before you decline this option, keep in mind that a pop-over can increase sign-ups. There is a study which proves that pop-overs can increase sign ups to up to 300%.

The best thing to do would be to try it out for your website and see how it works. Check if you get more sign ups and if it affects the bounce rate or browsing time of your blog. If everything seems fine you can continue using it, but if you have some problems you can get rid of it.

I have used them for both my blogs and found them to be very effective in increasing sign-ups without causing any problems for my readers (as the browsing metrics are almost the same).

3. Give a free gift

This is probably the best way to get more people to sign up to your newsletter. Usually convincing people to sign up to your newsletter to receive updates can be hard.

But if you give away a free gift like a white paper or a guide or a video, you can convince more people to sign up to your newsletter as people will want to get hold of the guide as it will more likely contain better information than the blog posts as its access is gated.

4. Have a call to action at the end of the post

Many people make the mistake of not having a call to action at the end of blog posts. At the end of every blog post you need to have a persuasive call to action which leads to a landing page where readers can download your free documents.

In the call to action let the reader know that they can get better tips by reading the free gift and then include the link to the landing page on which this free gift can be downloaded. This will increase the traffic to your landing page.

5. Place sign up forms everywhere you can

This is another important point to keep in mind. People will more likely sign up to your newsletter if you make it easy for them to find the sign up forms.

Usually the best place for a sign up form is the landing page, but along with this, you need to have sign up forms at the end of blog posts, on the side bars and in the blog posts itself (wherever possible).

These are five ways to get more newsletter subscribers. If you follow them strictly and try out all these techniques you should see a rise in the number of newsletter subscribers.

Have I missed out any other important points? Have you got any tips you would like to share with us? Please leave your comments in the comments box below.

I’ll tell you one secret – writing killer articles is not enough today.  It’s especially important these days – we have a lot of bloggers and tons of blogs, which compete with others for the audience.

So, what shall I do – you may ask me.

You should arouse interest in your readers!

Each blogger must decide, how he or she wants to charm their visitors. If you don’t have any idea – below you can find 20 tips, how you can attract your posts. Of course you can choose only one or few of them.

But remember – your readers don’t like boredom.

How to Attract Your Blog Posts – 20 Tips For Normal People

 1. Use Pictures or Photos

A lot of people say, that one picture is worth more than thousand words. I agree with them – and you?

2. Use Graphs and Tables

Some type of your readers like numbers. You can help them in reading post on your blog by placing graphs or tables inside.

3. Prepare Rankings

Rankings are great both in getting more readers and in selling your own or affiliate products. You can make your rankings for almost everything – products, websites, tools

5 Most Powerful Blogs About Blogging And Making Money Online

 4. Use Videos

Videos are great both for people and for SEO. You can find a lot of videos on YouTube. Placing them in your blog post is very easy.

 5. Use Infographics

Infographics are relatively new way of showing information or knowledge. But are very informative and easy to absorb

 6. Make Interviews with Others in Your Niche

A lot of people like interviews – and it concern not only reading interviews, but also be interviewed.

 7. Prepare list(s)

People are lazy (I’m lazy too). They like lists, because lists save their time.

If your list is great, it may be even linked by others

Below you can find some examples of lists:

Top 100 Websites For Bloggers

The Entrepreneur’s Handbook: 101 Resources for First Time Entrepreneurs

Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

37 Ways a Virtual Assistant can Grow your Internet Business

8. Tell Your Own Stories

Nothing is better for your readers than telling a great story. It may be an example of how you made something or even lessons learned from the past. But there is one, very important thing in telling stories – you are not allowed to lie!

9. Give Examples

Showing examples is very similar to the previous point. But here you can describe not only your experience, but also experiences of somebody else. What’s more – in that case you can link to his/her story. It will be appreciated…

10. Use Slideshows

Power Point slideshow is great not only for executing presentation, but also for showing your readers something important. You can upload and share your presentation for example on Slideshare

 11. Be Controversial

This point may be very dangerous, if you aren’t familiar with discussed topic or made something stupid. But in most cases, you will only trigger discussion below your post or on other blogs. Great!

12. Make Reviews

People like reviews. If review is made by trusted person or company and in professional way, we will believe in it.

13. Link to Others in Your Niche

Sometimes you want mention about someone’s great post or article in your niche. Just because. After it you can contact with him or her to let them know about it. Maybe they will link back to you?  If you want to mention one or more of my posts – don’t hesitate and do it now! But remember about contacting me after it

14. Use Mind Maps

Mind maps are great for sharing your ideas in graphical way. They are simple to create, and easy to understand

 15. Answer on Questions or Resolve Someone’s Problem

Answering on questions or resolving problems is one of the greatest way for making relationships with your guests. With good reason there is a lot of services like How to or Yahoo answers

16. Ask Your Readers About Something

In contrast to answering on questions is asking them It’s also good strategy, but firstly you must be recognized as a blogger to use this tip

 17. Be “Google friendly”

This post isn’t Google friendly. First of all – title isn’t searched a lot of times. I can call this article more attractive for this search engine, but I didn’t. Why? I make some tests…

If you want to get example of competitive keyword  – no problem. For example How to use Twitter… (monthly there is about 90.500 exact searches of this phrase) is very competitive keyword. Great tool for such keyword research is Market Samurai (be careful – affiliate link inside!)

18. Be Funny with Your Content

Sometimes you must make your readers laugh. If you are making SEO – you should like this video

19. Make Your Posts Easy to Share with Others

Sometimes you can find great articles about something, and you want to share it with your friends or others (for example on Twitter, Facebook, etc.) But you couldn’t find buttons or even links for sharing. Give your readers possibility for sharing interesting articles!

20. End with Call to Action

If you want to engage your readers – just ask them to make something on your blog. You may ask the question, ask them to comment on your blog, or request about following you on Twitter.

And how about you? Do you like this post? – please tweet it! You don’t like it – please tell us about it! Or maybe you want to share with us your tips, how to attract your article? Feel free and comment it.