13 Ways To Write Knock Out Blog Posts In 10 Minutes Or Less

Since I write several blogs I day I’ve learned a few ways to write fast. I can usually knock out a decent blog post in 10 minutes. Of course, I’ve spent as many as four hours writing blog posts too. So there’s both ends of the spectrum.

But what if you absolutely have to do it fast? You’re in a time crunch, the day is almost done, you haven’t made your post for the day, and time is a tickin’. Now what?

Well, Michael Martine at Remarkablogger, one of my favorite bloggers on blogging, has 10 suggestions for you on his blog. In a nutshell, Michael recommends:

1. Pick three blogs you respect and introduce your readers to them
2. Go to the main category page for one of your categories, copy and paste five of your best posts
3. Ask your readers to ask you questions
4. Answer a question from your readers
5. Ask a question of your readers and have them answer it in the comments
6. In the same vein, put together a poll and post it
7. Google for the top ten sites in your niche and post them
8. Record a video at YouTube
9. Embed a video
10. Write something nice about the coolest new person you’ve met, recently

All of these are good ideas and with the exception of recording a video at YouTube, I’ve done them all. One of these days I may get around to actually posting a video at YouTube.

But I have three other ways you can knock out a blog post in 10 minutes or less. Here are my three suggestions:

1. Find a blog within your niche and copy/paste a snippet from it then comment on what you’ve read. Agree or disagree, it doesn’t matter. But start a conversation across blogs. Trackback to the blog that you borrowed from. This invites that blogger and his/her readers to your blog to continue the conversation.
2. Take an article from an article directory and publish it on your blog. You can comment on the article or not. I usually do. Again, agree or disagree; it doesn’t really matter. Just start a conversation. I’ve actually had article authors visit my blog and comment on my response to their articles or thank me for publishing them.
3. Focus on a keyword. Some people might consider this spam, but if you do it right you can take an important keyword for your niche and just focus your blog post on that keyword. Include it in your title, write a first sentence using the keyword, then follow up with two or three paragraphs backing up your thesis (first sentence) statement. End the blog post using your keyword in the last sentence. Now you have a keyword optimized blog post with a little content value for your readers.

Thanks for Michael for giving me something to blog about today. 10 minutes and I’m done.