Tips for Writing A Great Blog Post

Christiaan, from Mind The Beginner, sums it up very nicely in a comment on today’s 31 Days to Build A Better Blog Challenge (ProBlogger):

1. Write great and original content
2. Be ruthlessly honest in your content
3. Do this one post at a time

Something I’ve been working on here at RussHutto.com is a more focused approach to blogging. Gone are the days of silly “what I had for lunch” or random “goof off” posts. Though I enjoy that sort of thing, I decided several months ago to focus more on helping creative artists, worship leaders and worshipers hone their skills in planning, crafting, and sharing their expressions of worship.

Part of my desire in blogging is to help other creative artists/worshipers in the “sharing” part online. Blogging.

I’d like to add some more tips to the above list. In just a few short months I’ve seen an increase in traffic and individual response to my more focused effort. Some of the things that I’ve been doing include:

1. Making sure that in some shape form or fashion that someone can glean something from my blog.
It doesn’t necessarily mean that every individual post has something you can learn, but it does mean that my blogging efforts, be it posts, series, or even in just sharing some of my experiences week to week, contain something that you can hopefully take away as inspiration.

2. Gathering & sharing resources.
This may seem like a no-brainer, but some of my most successful blog posts are those in which I share resources. Not only do I help others’ get their resources out, but I also meet new people along the way who have resources that I can share at a later date. For example: I posted about Worship Leading Resources and within the hour there were 2 new comments thanking me for those resources which contained links to 2 more resources. Now I know that’s not a landslide of stats by any measure, but for me that’s success.

3. Networking.
It always seems to help to add a link here and there to other blogs who have content that enriches your post. Darren, over at ProBlogger, is doing an amazing series on how to become a better blogger.

There’s definitely more to just these few tips in creating a great blog post. The bottom line for me when writing a post is this question:

Would I want to read this if it were on someone else’s blog?