I have been blogging for a little over a year now, writing and posting a new blog every other day. Sometimes I suffer a slight touch of writer’s block, however, not very often, I have found that if I follow these 7 ideas, I can develop unique content, consistently. There are many blogs written about “quality” content, just the thing that defies description, I have yet to read a definition of “quality” content that doesn’t define it by saying it must be “quality” content. What quality content is to one person is completely useless to another, to me the phrase means nothing more than accurate spelling, good grammar, excellent punctuation, and a good flowing manner. My company is in the self-sufficiency niche, it’s an easy niche to write about as I can relate most life skills to it. My way of dealing with blogging is briefly summarized in the following 7 rules that I have found that I follow mostly by instinct.

1) I write to one person, it is not possible to write interesting articles that are of interest to thousands of people while doing that my goal. Abraham Lincoln said it best with his statement: “You can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.” So I’m not trying to, as an example, my last blog, published this morning, was written about the eruption of the volcano in the Philippines, Mount Mayon. I spent time in the island country between 1970 and 1973, I was in the Navy and the ship I was stationed on called into the port of Subic Bay. This blog was written with the memory of a little boy, he was about 10 years old at the time, driving a water buffalo down the side of the road. He was naked, obviously very poor, I think he is 50 years old today. I do my best to identify with the trials and tribulations of his life’s journey, compassion is a very real part of my writing. He is the most important part of that blog, there are thousands of people like him in the world, in my opinion, they will all relate to that blog, they are all on the Internet today, they are important. I make sure to reply to every comment as soon as I can, it’s also important.

2) Pick a word to start with and build from there, read everything, all day. In the course of that reading, there are many topics that interest many people, each of those topics consists of words, sometimes thousands of words. Of those thousands of words, I will choose one, then I will do a word relationship mental exercise, many mornings lying in bed (in the zone of no, not getting up, not staying in bed) I will think of all the words that I can relate to this. All of those words are bound to be part of, or the head word in my keyword, or most likely my keyword phrase. Going through that thought process I also come up with ideas for other blogs too, sometimes the blog I had intended to write takes a backseat due to coming up with ideas for blogs related to that one word I feel I should write first. . I never take more than one word forming an idea at a time, I am not a multitasker. Much of my niche includes “homesteading,” so if I had to choose the word “ice cream,” it would allow me to write a lot of blogs before I figured out how to do it. Evoking key phrases creates openings for other blogs. For example, with the key phrase “make homemade ice cream from scratch”, it is possible to start the blog series with a blog about building a pasture for your new dairy cow, that would be a blog. Some words are easier than others, weather disasters, for example, practically write themselves, others, like the DNA of a salamander, would require a lot of research and study for me. Almost any word will work, it depends on your knowledge of the subject and your willingness to study it, which is the deciding factor. I found that humans are interested in everything, if you question it, take another look at the search words you use to find anything on the web, chances are millions of websites will come up.

3) I don’t pay attention to word count, that’s not why I’m in this, I’m in this because I love writing, reading and thinking about people and life in general. I’ve written a few blogs with 800 words, maybe one or two, I haven’t written less than I can remember. I’ve written many blogs over 2000 words, however most are in the 1200-1800 word range, but I’m not attuned to the word count, I don’t pay attention to it until I’m done. By allowing the amount of words to dominate my writing, I do myself a disservice, if I write a mediocre blog and force the words I have found, I can make it a horrible piece of writing, just as it is possible to make it a great blog. into a mediocre one in the same way. I have never found the opposite to be true. I write until I finish writing about it, the forced words seem to be just that, forced. It’s a bit like playing music, (I play guitar), if a piece of music is written in a “C” scale and I end it with an “F” string, for example, it sounds unfinished and leaves the listener (or musician) wanting . end with a chord or note of “C”. That’s what is meant by a performer who tells the band members to “take him home now.” As in this paragraph, when a topic is exhausted it is time to move on to the next, it has a natural ending if I write more I lose you.

4) I use my company’s “mission statement” to guide my blog, after all, I’m trying to encourage people to visit it. I’ve always believed in a mission statement, I won’t paste it and copy it here because it has no relevance. The company’s goals are set out in a statement that is able to get me back to the basics of why I started a business, it’s what’s important. It is also a reminder of who I am, because after all, I wrote it with my interest and ideas about what I want to achieve with my work. If you don’t have a mission statement maybe you should, just writing it brought a new perspective to the way I think about how I’m involved in my business.

5) Write for people, not for search engines, my main focus is always people, after all, on the other side of what I am writing in the “notepad” there is a person who reads it, you are the important. Aside from meeting the obscure requirements of major search engines, keywords, SEO, and original content, there’s not much else to do for the big guys, due diligence goes a long way. I never cut and paste anything, I don’t even quote, I use links if I want to reference an article. I make sure I have 3 sources before I write my blog unless I know everything about it, (boy that will be the day), I made that mistake once and got called out for false information, no fun. In my reading and research, I make sure the information I’m digesting is up to date, unless I’m writing a historical document, which I often do, I check the dates of the article. Most of the time, if it’s more than a few months old, it’s history. I have to know the difference.

6) I don’t pay attention to making money, I have the attitude if I do my due diligence and write well the money will come, it always has. I don’t want to come across as greedy, it’s easier than most people think. My personal belief is that if a person’s only interest in life is money, they are doomed, check out Facebook, greed sets in. be doing them inside. I have a grandson that I was working with to start a music blog, he wrote like two blogs and asked me when I would start getting paid. (What you’re thinking are my exact thoughts, holy cow.) I do advertising very infrequently and when I do it is maybe a product, I don’t like to be the target of a sales pitch constantly so I don’t sell anything. , many blogs do, I do not read them. When I advertise, I use a link, even then it must be a product that is directly related to the prize I just wrote. For example, if I just wrote an article on how to tie knots, I can add a link with the annotation “This link is to buy 50 feet of handmade natural fiber rope.” With sales, I’m upfront and honest, when you click on that link, you know that before you click on it, you’re being encouraged to buy something.

7) I am not a “shock jock”, I will not write about politics, religion, abortion, gun rights, or get involved in local disputes, it is just not my nature, there is nothing I can solve in 120 words. tweet or a Facebook argument. I’m not trying to fix the world, I have a vote and I use it, that’s all.

This is a summary of how I write a blog, it’s working for me, maybe you’d like to try some of my ideas, I’m not sure how successful my approach is, it seems to be working, I’m gaining readers every week, it’s a slow process I’m on This is long term, I don’t plan to end my blog anytime soon, I’ve been writing since I was in elementary school.

I appreciate the time you took to read this,

Thanks, Jacques.