You’ve been giving blogging your best shot – producing content regularly, frequenting the usual social networking sites – spending hours upon hours in the blogosphere. Yet, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to get any comments, retweets, and some days if feels as if Google has applied an insect-repellent like traffic block to your site only.
You hit the publish button and wait…and wait. Check the stats…nothing. So you interact on a few sites, leave a few comments on a few ComLuv blogs, but still…nothing.
You’ve used all the fancy number-in-the-title tricks and have even revealed some of your best ancient Chinese secrets on your blog. But still, people aren’t responding to your writing how you would like them to.
What if you could somehow measure how well your article was written before you hit the publish button? What if you had a tool that could show you exactly what’s missing from your content? What if you could learn to write killer content that’s truly irresistible and that keeps readers come back again and again? What if you could learn how to wake up the search engines and start getting free targeted organic traffic?
What if there was a checklist that you could follow when creating all of your blog posts?
Problogger has done it again! Darren Rowse has created a new ebook: The Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers, that can help strengthen your writing skills and show you how to get the results you want. What’s even better is that it’s actually affordable at $14.97, but for the next week or so, you can actually get this for $9.97 – that’s 33% off.
If you’ve been struggling, this investment might be the one that makes the greatest impact when it comes to your blogging.
So, how do you know when your writing stinks?
About Kiesha Easley
Just the words I needed to hear. I just want to say though that once you forget about the numbers and just work, and by work I mean produce stuff, you can really start seen results.
One tip: make sure you are putting all the effort into stuff that actually gives you results. Follow all the tips from every blogger that talks about blogging isn’t going to guarantee you results.
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Quality writing is without a doubt one of the most important aspects in blogging if you want long-term visitors. The book seems like a good buy, especially with the 33% off, although I’m not really sure how good will it be in helping me. Might check it out though. Thanks for sharing!
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i write effective unique description what my regular visitors are looking for and then invite them to guest post that the secret of successful blogging.
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Great article. I think I’m doing a reasonably good job writing. After all – Journalism was one of my majors back in college. But it seems like the people who comment are that same loyal cadre of followers over and over.
I just started back at my blog last month after a six month hiatus – so, I spose I need time to build up that consistency again.
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I know my writing stinks when I don’t get a lot of visitors and the blog post which has the least or no comments at all. Thanks for sharing the link, I hope it is really worth it.
Read what you wrote out loud to someone whose opinion you trust. If this person has no reaction to what you’ve written, your writing stinks.
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I think the best way to discover whether your writing is interesting is to share it with your friends and family. I post my posts up on Facebook and then track how many are actually clicking on the links to my site. They may not comment or tweet about them, but I can gauge what titles are interesting to them, and write along those lines.
For quality purposes, I join a site like Helium and get articles ranked. If my article is consistently ranked number 1, I know I wrote something solid. If it’s ranked below number 1, I’ll read over the other articles and find out why their articles are valued more.
The real secret is patience. If you share your content through Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. and still don’t have the hits you’d like, adapt your content and find something that works.
If anyone would like an invite to Helium, email me, and I will send you one.
There are some of us who are attracting comments, retweets and the traffic yet we still think our writing is rubbish. :)
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Hi Dean,
Sounds like you just need a little bit of confidence. I learn a long time ago that sometimes, you’ve just got to accept who you are and stop trying to compare what you do to others. You’ve got to believe that what you do is just as valuable – just in different ways.
I guess this can be done through updating your blog at regular intervals and writing user-friendly content.