How to write a blog post

One of the best tools you can use to drive traffic to your affiliate sites is a blog post. Many people get scared or intimidated about the prospect of writing because they think, "How am I supposed to write a blog? I don't know how to write."  So they never write anything and maybe repost some form article. Check out most affiliate program blogs and see what I mean. They contain the same articles over and over. Heck, I've been there and I have done it too. So what if I told you that good blog writing is as simple as following a formula?
There are two main ways to structure any article. The first is to go from a wide focus to a narrow focus. That is what I am doing in this article. I am starting with a wide topic of blog writing and narrowing it down to specific tips about blog writing. The second way is to take a specific instance and move to a broad topic. These are really great for taking aspects of your daily life and turning them in to informative blog posts. You take something that happened to you or that you witnessed and you draw some conclusion from it.
The beauty of blogs is that they do not have to be huge articles. 200 to 500 words are ideal lengths of blog posts. Pick a topic and spend 10 minutes writing about it using one of the two formula's above and save it. DO NOT PUBLISH IT RIGHT AWAY! If you are writing for a business, you need to be professional. No professional writer ever publishes his first draft. You shouldn't either. Grab a coffee, take a break and come back to it. Spell check it and look for awkward phrasing or idea flow. Now you can publish it.
Congratulations! You have now become a blog writer. Do this once a week and you will begin to drive traffic to your site.
Hope that helps,
Tony