Ever wondered or raised your eyebrow when reading posts on established blogs, thinking how professional they are? You always wanted to have posts as professional as them in your blog too, don’t you? If yes, continue reading, as I’m telling you the method which you can follow to make your blog posts more professional and easy for your readers to read.

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These types of posts are also social media friendly and people like it more. So without further ado, let me take you to the 5 steps which will make your posts more professional if done correctly.

1. Make A Synopsis First
2. Add (a) Nice Picture(s)
3. Insert Quotes Wherever Needed
4. Format The Post Properly
5. Proof Read Before You Hit The Publish Button

Now you know what the post is all about and I’m not going to leave you with that. Let me elaborate each point to you so that you can understand them better and apply it on your blog posts.

1. Make a Synopsis First

Synopsis is nothing but an abstract. It gives your readers a clear view of what they will be reading in the post. You can see an example for that in this post itself. What I have done above by listing the 5 points is called synopsis. This will help your blog readers in many ways. The readers those who are in a hurry can read the synopsis and leave and come back later to read the full post. Also it gives your readers a summary of what they will read in the post. If the post is not targeted towards them, they will know it at first and can save time.

2. Add (a) Nice Picture(s)

A picture is worth a thousand words. It will add spice to the post and make it more social media friendly. No one will want to read pages and pages of content. Surely, I don’t like to read such type of articles. Pictures give a look to your blog post. There is a skill involved in choosing the best picture for your post. If you master it, you have an added advantage in social media. If you are not able to find the best pictures, ask one of your friends to do it. Don’t add an ugly picture or an irrelevant picture. It will degrade the quality of the post.

3. Insert Quotes Wherever Needed

Adding quotes of famous people will make your blog post look more professional. You can also invent your own quote, though this needs a little creativity and experience. I normally mention quotes by famous people and rarely write my own. Say, you are writing a post on creativity, you can add quotes like:

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. – Edward de Bono

4. Format The Post Properly

Formatting is another skill and this is something every blogger should have. If you are not formatting your posts properly, I’m not going to read your post. It makes your post look bad and gives your blog an unprofessional look. Bold the things which are to be bolded and italicize the things which need to be italicized. Don’t write everything in a single paragraph. Split it into multiple paragraphs and give them a heading each.

5. Proof Read Before You Hit The Publish Button

Proof reading is something which I stress on almost every article that I write about writing/blogging. This is a very important step. But people don’t do it most of the times. Would you like to see mistakes in the articles written by big bloggers? Or would you like to see mistakes in your favorite author’s books? It is the same case here. Your blog readers don’t want to see mistakes in your articles too. Proof read your post once or twice before hitting the publish button.

I have made every single point clear (did I?). Here’s once again a review of what is said in the post.

1. Synopsis
2. Pictures
3. Quotes
4. Formatting
5. Proof Reading

If you had watched this post closely, you would see that whatever I have mentioned in the post has been implemented in this post also. You can see synopsis, picture, quote and formatting. Have you tried this format of posts? Do you see this blog post looking more professional? Please share your views in the comments. Also try it in one of your blog posts and let me know how it was received by your blog readers.

The post was written by Ram from the BloggingTune. He is a freelance writer who likes Digg-able content on blogging and productivity.