This is a guest post by Sean Platt from GhostWriterDad.com
Are you an efficient blogger?
Even if you are, you could probably stand to improve.
Blogging is fun, at least at first. But soon enough it can turn into a grind. Like any job, the daily tasks grow tedious and you find yourself searching for ways to escape the endless cycles of boredom.
But you can’t give it up. A blog is one of the sharpest tools in the modern writers toolbox. You must get so good at blogging that the daily maintenance becomes barely an afterthought.
Fortunately, it’s possible. And once you get good at it, it even gets easy.
The key is in having some go-to content that’s easy to produce, yet highly relevant to your reader. If it feels like work, or seems like a struggle, you’re more likely to fight it and you won’t be as effective.
Use the following suggestions as a 15 minute template to create quick, quality content.
1. Create a List Post
I know the list post is old and tried, but it still works. Even better, the nature of the post makes it easy to craft a compelling headline. “The Top Five Mistakes That ____ Make,” “The Top Five Books You MUST Read,” “The Top Five Bloggers in Your Niche (That You MUST Know),” etc.
2. Add a Video
Go to YouTube, find a video that inspires you, embed the video, then write a few brief sentences about why that video harbors its own brand of magic. Same goes for audio. You can also record your own custom audio or video on the fly, and get either done in well under 15 minutes.
3. Upload a Photo
This could be one of your photos, or something you find on Flickr or another photo sharing site. The purpose of using an image is similar to video. Explain why the image inspires you and how it relates to your audience’s needs and desires.
A note: be sure to choose photos that are free to share under a Creative Commons license. In Flickr, it’s a simple as going to “advanced search options” and checking the box marked “Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content ”.
4. Answer Questions
Your readers probably have a lot of questions. Answering those questions is an easy way to develop fast quality content, but it’s also the type of content that serves your readers and makes it easy for them to see you as an authority and naturally share what you have to say.
Get into the habit of keeping a list of questions that you’ve seen in comments – not just in your own blog, but also in the comments section of other blogs in your niches. Chances are that your readers will also have similar questions.
5. Write a Short Review
You could write a review about a book or product. It doesn’t have to include an affiliate link, but it must be valuable to your audience (sometimes you’ll make a lot more money in the long run by excluding the affiliate link and going for trust before the easy dollar).
Be sure to list the pros and cons even in a short review. You don’t have to find negatives for the sake of being negative, but if everything you say about every book or product is always 100% positive your readers will lose trust in what you say.
6. Create a Roundup of Relevant Posts
Roundup posts can be from your own blog or gathered from around the Internet. Write a few precision sentences to summarize each post and tell your reader why it’s relevant to them.
Curating content this way not only provides value for your readers, it’s also a way to get on the radar of other bloggers and site owners and to establish yourself as an authority in your niche.
All the above ideas can be implemented in less than 15 minutes, and all provide a lot of value to your reader. Quality content doesn’t have to take a long time to produce; you simply need a strategy and the will to get it done.
Do you have any tips and tricks for writing high quality content in a small amount of time? Just use the comment form below to tell us that…
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I hope by following all those steps I can also do it in 15 minutes. It usuallt takes me hours to have one article. 🙂
i like u r method which u describe in this post but i don’t think so within 15 min you can make quality content but i like your tips for this.
Photos and list posts really do the trick 🙂
yup these 6 are the ways you can create a content but how you will ensure that the content you have produced is a high quality content???? i think that your thoughts in the content and your answer which is i think on no 4 in your post are more important then anything els!!!
Ironically such quick and easy posts tend to do better than the long technical ones.. Practical tips this is..
I am pretty new to content creation so anything to help organize and speed up the process is great information for me! I have yet to tackle a lens but this post makes it sound so easy. Have you done split testing to see if there is a certain order of these items that is the best for conversions?
Nice tips. the last point is very good. If you include others post on your blog as round up then the site owner must get interested in your blog. great tips.
I wish i can make a blog in just 15 minutes… expressing oneself is through writing in a pro blogger they can surely make blog in just 15 minutes. nice tips here!
I liked the video part among this. Videos are great way to generate content, where esle we can go other than YouTube! lol gonna make use of it from now. Thank you for info
Its true, blogging sounds fun but thinking of writing all those never ending topics always use to swirl my head. I believe there are times when even bloggers do run out of ideas on new topics and trying to get some inspiration always bring back that intensity. I found the articles very helpful and I’m sure every reader who loves writing will appreciate your tips.
Couldent agree more James. Its Very difficult to keep providing information and exciting new topics for your readers that will interest them.
We need all the help we can get in creating unique quality content.
Thanks Sean, we all really appreciate it.