3 Great Tips that will make your Technical Blogs which people will actually read
In this article we'll see of how to write tech blogs that audience will actually read and share with others.
First of all let's be clear why you are writing a Technical Blog Post. There are many of them who will be writing the Blogs because of many Reasons:
- Some will have the reason of having a good impression on their future HR managers.
- To Apply recently Learned knowledge
- To share your insights with other developers
- To build your reputation and become a thought leader
- To Earn Money from it
It does not matter whatever your Reasons are and why you are blogging.
Just Write some good stuff, Stuff that people will actually read.
To write some content that people will actually read, you must have these 3 most important things in your Article.
- Substance
- Packaging
- Publicising
1. Substance
Write something that matters to others.
Pro Tip - All the buzz words in the world can't save your ass, If it doesnot have substance.
Do your Homework
Know the topic you are writing about and what have been previously written about it. Once your Homework is done, Now figureout what's missing.
At a point you might even think of why should I write these blogs about the things which have been already written.
Well, you know everyone have their reason to read your blog oveer other, Some of the reasons can be
- Relatable Experience Level
- Level of Detail
- Language or Tech/Tool specific
- Diffrent Example/ Application
- Humor ( Optional )
With over these many excuse to read your blog, many of them will read yours too.
2. Packaging
Packaging on a Blog Post can be diffrentiated in 4 particualr parts
- Headline
- Images
- Formatting
- Platform
Headline
A good Headline makes all the diffrence
Pro Tip - If you are going to fine tune one aspect of your story, make it the Headline.
Images
Humans are Highly Visual being, So use as much as Images you can. You can use Pexels for the Images for free.
Formatting
Format your Code so that it looks good whenever a use wants to read your Blog Post ( Consiquence )
Platform
Platform makes a Huge diffrence to get great insights on your Blog Post.
Most Famous Blogs being :
- Medium
- Hashnode
- Dev
- Own Blog
3. Publicizing
Publicizing is the most lenghty part of writing Tech Blog Post as in Developing Coding is only the 10% but the Publicity for it makes the next 90% of the Developement process.
You can use Hackernews for Publicising it, It is completly Random but you have to take you chance whenever it will come on top you blog will just make it.
You can also use Facebook Groups specific to it, That thing also works.
I would Recommend that you should also use other's people's audience, But that doesn't mean to spam his Comment Box just be a decent looking Blogger who is in need for a better audience not a spammer who is being a Blogger.