Hello you! Do you need a daily blog checklist? If you are like me and you write on a regular basis it will seem that you make the same or similar errors regularly. Ouch! I forgot to... Oh no! I left out the... Shoot! I can't believe that I messed up! Life can be so busy and these simple errors have become the norm. If only you can find a way to remember everything you need to do before you hit the publish button. I made quite a few errors in my post last week and even after I created my pin images and pinned them! I was annoyed with myself so I had to let go and do what I could to salvage the errors. This week I decided that in order to reduce the risks and blunders I will create a daily blog checklist that I can use to quadruple check (say that 5 times fast) before I click schedule. I then decided to make it into a blog post as well. I thought that you can also benefit from this little gift so that we can help each other. 1. Objective The first point on my daily blog checklist is the objective. What is the aim of the post and what is your reader hoping to get out of it? For me, the hardest part of all my blog posts is the first paragraph which contains the objective. I always have a very good outline of what I am going to write about. I'll start very slowly like a very tired and old car engine. If your post is useless or does not offer any benefit to your audience then it really does not make sense to write it does it? I know this does not apply to you. I know you are super brilliant at writing so all of your posts are beneficial and contain loads of value for your audience so you will always have a great benefit for your readers so don't you worry. Just remember that outlining the benefit to the reader in the first paragraph gives them the appetite to read more even if they are eating their fave dessert. Yum! 2. Grammar As part of your daily blog checklist, it is so important to ensure that your post has been proofread by someone else. You can also use a handy third-party tool like Grammarly to assist you with readability. Nothing turns me off more when I am reading than a grammatically poor article. My preference is not to criticise anyone so I read the article correcting as I go. I always trip up, get confused and get lost so much that I give up reading it. A friend of mine who is an award-winning writer suggested some great tools to assist writers with creating great content. One such tool is called Hemmingway Editor and it does not come free but he said that it is very good. Check out the screenshot below of my first paragraph placed in Hemingway Editor. The results are a little scary but at least I got a grade 4 (lol!). the most important feature in Grammarly is the spell check. I can depend on it to suggest the correct spelling of all my words especially when I type maximum speeds. Use all the help that you can get to allow your audience the joy of reading your post. After all, you spent so much time tweaking it. One day I will be able to outsource the editing to someone who loves perfecting English. For now, I'll stick with Grammarly, Yoast readability tool and Hemmingway Editor. 3. SEO Friendly In case you didn't know SEO means search engine optimisation. Which is a really big, long, technical phrase. SEO simply means that your article is good enough to rank well in the search engines. If you are new to this term you are probably wondering what on earth makes your article good enough? The likes of Google, their spiders and their algorithm uses SEO to determine relevancy. Also,
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