SUBJECT: Beginner's Blogging Lesson #3 - Blog Post Formats

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Today we are going to talk about the different “Kinds” of blog
posts that you can use on your blog.

Blog posts come in many different forms and lengths. If you want
to keep your blog fresh and interesting, you should post often.
Creating different types of blog posts will keep your audience
interested. It will also keep you from being bored with your
blog.

Whether you are blogging to make money directly from the blog or
blogging to drive traffic to an affiliate program, you should
know about these five kinds of blog posts.

1. Review blog posts.

Review blog posts can help you monetize your blog. When you
review a product and include an affiliate link, you'll make a
commission off of each sale generated with your affiliate link.
Review blog posts should go over some of the major plusses and
minuses of the product. Even if you loved the product, you
should keep your review balanced by mentioning a few things that
could have been improved. Your audience will appreciate your
honesty and be more likely to trust your recommendation.

2. Quick tips.

Quick tips are great “in between” posts since they are so short.
They are normally between 100 and 250 words. If there’s a great
bit of information that you want to share with your niche but it
doesn't really warrant a full blog post, you can post a quick
tip. The tip should be focused on one key area of the niche. For
example, “How to Grease a Muffin Pan” is a perfect quick tip
article for a cooking blog.

3. Lists.

Blog readers love lists! If you'll look at the most popular
blogs you'll see that they make good use out of this type of
blog posts. You can make lists fit any niche topic imaginable.
They are great ways to convey information online because they
can easily be scanned by web readers who like to skim over
information. You can create resource lists that will help your
readers find information on your niche. You can also create
lists of different ways to accomplish a goal in a niche, like “5
Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Sales Letter.” The possibilities
are endless.

4. Interviews.

Although these require a bit of preparation, they can be very
valuable to your blog. You can interview someone in your niche
and share the results of the interview with your blog readers.
This will not only help provide valuable content for your blog,
but you can also get more traffic to your blog. Likely, the
person who you are interviewing will publicize the event on
their blog and around the ‘net which will bring more traffic
back to you.

5. How to posts.

Like quick tips, how to posts help you provide valuable
information to your readers. However, unlike quick tips, these
posts go into detail on a certain topic. Some how to posts are
even separated out into two or three part courses. For ideas on
what to create how to posts about, look at the most frequently
asked questions in your niche and develop posts around those
topics.

That's it for today's lesson. In your next lesson we will be
talking about some easy ways that you can get traffic to your
blog. 

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