Congratulations on deciding to become a blogger! Do you need to write your first blog post but you don't know what to write? You've probably never classified yourself as a writer at all. To put it bluntly, you don't see why anyone would ever be interested in your content. The English Literature class at school was super boring for you. Writing English compositions and similar essays were the least pleasurable homework assignments during high school. If only you had a pet dog that ate your homework it would've been a good idea and the perfect excuse. Tell me if you can also relate to these. Despite your checkered past when it comes to writing long form essays, you want to give blog writing your best shot. There's so much information out there about what to write that it has left you confused. Technical blogging terminology sounds too scary to understand and you feel a little lost. You just need a way to start your blog off right to avoid future regrets. In this post, you'll learn everything you need so that you can write your first blog post confidently and get your first 1,000 blog readers as well. Latest Blogging Statistics Before diving into this first blog post guide let's spend some time looking at the statistics when it comes to blogging. It's important to look at blogging statistics because it will give you a frame of reference. So, you already know that there are close to 8 billion people on planet earth at the moment. However, you may not know that there are over 1.7 billion websites and about 600 million of them are blogs. That's about 13 people for each and every blog. In terms of active bloggers in the US alone there are about 32 million. If you will be blogging for the USA, don't let that number worry you because blogging categories are endless. The current rate of newly created blog posts stands at 70 million new posts a month. While that may all sound overwhelming you also need to be aware that there are close to 90,000 searches conducted on Google every second. Those searches include people looking for content that you have not even written yet. Bloggers who spend 6 hours or more on a blog post report a 31% increase in results. If you can't see yourself spending that much time on a blog post yet don't worry right now. Here's a strange statistic, 73% of people prefer reading articles less than 1,000 words long. On the flip side of that, blogs earning $50,000 or more a year have blog posts averaging 2,500 in length. To summarise these statistics in a lump, profitable bloggers are those who spend 6 hours or more crafting blog posts that are 2500 words long as they attract some of those 90,000 searches per second. This will all make sense in a bit so stick with me until the end. Types of Blogs If you have been doing some research you'll notice that there are all different types of blogs that you can create. In fact, when I first started blogging over 10 years ago these blog types wer...
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