How to write blog posts for your home office blog

Everybody is telling you to start a blog and you finally give in.  Now it is time to get your first blog post completed.  Blogs can be as complex or as simple as you want them to be.

The basic parts of a blog post are the title and the body.  That is basically it.  Come up with a good headline for your blog post.  Use something that will grab attention.  You could follow the how to or 7 ways kind of formulas for creating a title.  Next, you want to write the body of your blog post.

Writing the body does not have to be difficult.  A simple way to do it is to make a list of the topics that you want to cover.  You don't have to number them.  Just write down the main points.  After you get 4 or 5 of them, you can start to write.  You could create sub topics that you want to cover or you could just start filling in the information.  Before you know it, you will have a complete blog post.  After you have the blog post done, you can go back and read and edit it.  Take out the stuff that you don't want to include.

Give your blog post a picture that can help add to the topic.  People like to share pictures online.  You could check flickr and other photo sharing sites for images. Just be sure to give credit and a link back to the original work.

If you don't want to do a picture, you could always add a video that goes with your blog.  Make one yourself or link to a video that works.  Youtube is a top video site.  Just check to see if the video that you like has an embed code.  Copy and paste it into your blog post.  It is really simple to do.

Keywords are important online and you want to let people know what your blog post is about.  Think about all the topics that you cover in your blog post and tag it with those words.  You can find highly searched keywords by visiting adwords.google.com.

You are pretty much done at this point.  All you need to do is decide when you want the blog post to appear.  You can publish it immediately or have it scheduled to be released in the future.  If you are ready to share your information with the world, all you have to do is hit publish.  Your new blog post should appear at the top of your blog.

That wasn't hard at all.