There is a lot of pressure on bloggers to write every day, or at least frequently! This can be off-putting to new bloggers especially if they are keen to make a second income form blogging. However, there ways to make writing blog posts much easier. Many bloggers talk about “pillar articles” as the core of their blog (people like Yaro Starak), so what is a good way to write a pillar article for your blog?

A quick win is to use an writing template to produce your blog posts. Article writing templates save you time by providing a structure for you to work with when writing your article/blog post. There are many templates that you can choose form. These include:

• The X Most Common Mistakes
• The Top X Tips
• The X Shortcuts To…
• X Reasons Why ..,

Let’s look at one of these in some more detail.

The Shortcuts Template

Our brains are hard-wired to find shortcuts to any task. It’s part of our survival instinct. So any article that mentions shortcuts in an area we are interested in is likely to grab our attention. If you know your subject very well then you are well placed to advise on the shortcuts in that niche, be it oil painting, car spraying or web design. It shows that you know your stuff and can help others.
Lets look at a few examples of headlines for a “shortcuts” article:

• 7 Freestyle Shortcuts For Club Swimmers
• The 5 Little Know Shortcuts To Photoshop Mastery
• The Number 1 Shortcut To Great Looking Websites

Now that we have seen a few sample titles, what does our template actually look like?

The Shortcuts Template

Start your article by naming what area you are going to focus on. Then explain why it can be hard, tricky or a problem to carry out the needed tasks. This sets up the article so that your shortcuts can come to the rescue. Then lists out your chosen number of shortcuts one by one:

Your First Shortcut

Description of your first shortcut.

Your Second Shortcut

Description of your second shortcut.

Your Third Shortcut

Description of your third shortcut.

and so on …

Then for each shortcut ( and under the shortcut title ) you explain exactly what the shortcut is - easy really! Finish off your blog post with a quick summary and your days work is done…time for a tea or coffee So you can see that by using an article writing template like this you will be able to write great blog posts easily.

If you really pressed or in a hurray you can even rewrite articles that you feel you can add value to as well!