- Defining your audience, narrowing your niche, and identifying your competition.
- Learning the basics of SEO so it finally makes sense, finding a good keyword for your article, and using your competition to improve your articles.
- Using your personal story to build trust with your audience while still teaching them something.
- Writing your article efficiently. Including best practices for specific types of articles, such as review posts, list posts, and interviews.
- Writing awesome introductions and conclusions, as well as how best to place links, and use visuals.
- Doing professional edits, both content editing and line editing (with free tools), and using your keyword properly in your article.
- Putting on those final touches that turn a blog post into a professional article.