{"id":2504,"date":"2018-09-28T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious-old\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T09:33:31","slug":"what-things-you-need-to-consider-before-publishing-your-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/what-things-you-need-to-consider-before-publishing-your-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"What things you need to consider before publishing your blog post?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blogging is not merely about writing good content and publishing it. Any content writing agency will solely agree upon the fact that there\u2019s quite a lot that goes into blogging and as a blogger, you will be forced to wear a bunch of hats! So, you may be the only person creating, editing and publishing your blog post. Now, before you publish your post, there are several factors you need to consider to make your blog more clickable! So, it\u2019s not just about the content in your blog posts that will get you more clicks but also the way you publish it. With so much on your plate, you need to plan a checklist of things to avoid errors before you consider publishing the post!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mkhmarketing\/8469028675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mkhmarketing from Flickr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rethink Your Headline<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The perfect headline has the power to promote your post on social media. The audience will be attracted to your headline first which will encourage them to read the article further. Having an impactful headline can give a great kick-start to your post for further reading. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Headlines with a question makes the audience curious to find out more about the topic. Having numbers in your headline may create curiosity among the audience to read the blog. For example, \u201cX books you must read\u201d. Remember that your headlines need to be eye-catchy and using exclamations, numbers, or even an idiom or a popular phrase can help you do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proof Read the Post<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proofreading is not an option, it\u2019s a MUST! Check for errors made while typing. Sometimes having grammatical errors and irrational sentences can show disregard to the readers. To avoid such mistakes from featuring in your blog post, here\u2019s what you need to do when you proofread your article. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check Formatting<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People like to skim through online content. You need some eye-catching sub-section headlines and images to break up the content and maintain the reader\u2019s attention. Divide the content into paragraphs to make reading easier as well as informative for the audience. Also, make sure the sub-sections created in the body of your post have a consistent gerund and flow making it easier to read quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add structure<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A blog post is not a novel. You have one chance of grabbing and keeping people\u2019s attention towards your post. A blog post without structure is difficult to read. Having good sentence connectivity and flow of thought is important in engaging readers. Also, add suitable images that are related to each section in your article. Lastly, make sure you are consistent in providing the information. For instance, if you are using UK English for your posts, then stick to the same for all your blogs. Likewise, if you are using numericals instead of text, maintain the same throughout your blog. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add SEO-friendly URLs<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2505\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2505\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2505\" src=\"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/URL-2.jpg\" alt=\"A content writing agency needs to choose SEO friendly URLs.\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/URL-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/URL-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/URL-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When your URLs are SEO friendly, you can reap better results.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Images source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/seo-google-search-engine-browser-411385\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any content writing agency will agree that only using keywords phrase is not enough to create an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious-old\/blogs\/How-to-create-SEO-friendly-content\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEO-friendly content<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for your blog. Cleaning your URL enables to be more clickable for the reader. Here\u2019s an example to explain my point further. Let\u2019s say you are blogging about genres of music and your keywords are, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unfamiliar music genres to Indians<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Which post do you think will do better?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/2018\/09\/25\/Unfamiliar-music-genres-to-Indians-123456<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/unfamiliar-music-genres-to-Indians<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s obvious the correct answer to this question is the second option. A search engine friendly URL is not too long, but it can include the keyword you want to rank for. Often the title of your blog could be a choice for your URL leaving out all the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/searchmicroservices.techtarget.com\/definition\/stop-word\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stop words<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add ALT Text to Multimedia Content<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure you add ALT text for all images, infographics, videos, GIFs, etc. ALT text is important for search engines to read the image. You can even consider using keywords in your ALT text to boost your SEO efforts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALT text or alternate text is an attribute added to an image tag in HTML. This text appears inside the image container when the image can\u2019t be displayed. It helps search engines to understand what an image is about. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, take a look at this example of a code:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; background-color: #00ffff;\">&lt;img src=\u201d\/img\/example.gif\u201d alt=\u201dThings to consider before publishing your blog post.\u201d&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blogging <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious-old\/blogs\/Increase-web-traffic-through-blogging\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">increases web traffic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or your business webpage. Your blog post can only be a productive one if these effective steps are considered and ticked off before you actually hit the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">publish<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is not merely about writing good content and publishing it. Any content writing agency will solely agree upon the fact that there\u2019s quite a lot that goes into blogging and as a blogger, you will be forced to wear a bunch of hats! So, you may be the only person creating, editing and publishing your blog post. Now, before you publish your post, there are several factors you need to consider to make your blog more clickable! So, it\u2019s not just about the content in your blog posts that will get you more clicks but also the way you publish it. With so much on your plate, you need to plan a checklist of things to avoid errors before you consider publishing the post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[106,160,98,221],"tags":[256,92,235,228,229,211],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-content-marketing","category-content-writing-2","category-digital-marketing","tag-blog-posts","tag-content-writing","tag-content-writing-agencies","tag-content-writing-company","tag-content-writing-in-india","tag-seo","category-106","category-160","category-98","category-221","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacebar.in\/contentious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}