Techy Tuesday: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills

ow that you’ve started a blog (see the how-to here and here), you need to get writing. There’s a lot of blogs about blogging out there. Most of them are filled with useful information, but it seems silly to spend time reading about it instead of doing it. However, while there are a lot of techy things to consider, it has been argued many times that the most important part of your blog is the content.

Not only is content important to your readers, but it’s also important to the existence of your website. Websites don’t exist without words because search engine spiders don’t recognize images — they only pick up words. So I will still have a job even when print is dead! Hooray! That being said, it doesn’t hurt to brush up on your writing skills. For your readers and for the search engines. The following links (pulled mostly from Copyblogger) will help you through the writing process:

For the Beginner Blogger
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
How to Choose a Niche Topic for Your Blog
Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well
Discover the Writing Secret that Instantly Improves Your Copy

For the More Advanced Blogger
How to Write Magnetic Headlines
10 Secrets to More Magnetic Copy
10 Pathways to Inspired Writing

For the Intermediate Blogger
How to Keep Readers Coming Back to Your Blog
How to Write an Article in 20 Minutes
Why No One Links to Your Blog Posts and What to Do About It
5 Areas to Focus on for Effective SEO Copywriting

For Those Who Still Want to Pick Up a Book
Order Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing here.