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Blogging
Best Practices
Follow along with an old blog post.
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Keep your target
audience in mind.
Who are you writing for? Who do you want to reach?
• Different generations search for different topics online.
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What’s Trending?
How are you finding topics to blog about?
• Google Trends, Twitter Trends, and your Facebook newsfeed are
good outlets to find what’s trending.
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Give your post a
good title.
• Include keywords that are “searchable”.
• Include digital or interactive media in brackets. [INFOGRAPHIC]
[VIDEO] [WEBINAR]
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Keep the body of
your post to less
than 300 words.
• Different generations consume online content differently, but they
all agree that 300 words or less is the “sweet spot”.
• Curated lists and bullet posts help reduce the size of your blog
post and hold readers’ attention.
• Consider breaking up an in-depth topic into a post series.
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Include a quality
image.
• A quality image or photo MUST be included in each post. This
makes your blog post not just more visually appealing, but more
shareable online as well.
• Use royalty-free images from recommended sources.
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Include embedded
links.
• Embedded links take readers to more information and provide an
opportunity to showcase your other posts, programs, etc.
• Embedded link how-to video available on the Ed Tech blog.
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Have a call to
action at the end.
• Point readers to additional resources, a program, your “About”
Author page, local Facebook page, etc.