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How to Create Awesome Blog Posts When You have less time Artificial intelligence has already automated a lot of tasks. In future, it will change the way we do almost everything. However, it will never be capable of doing one thing – expanding the time. That means despite all technological revolutions, you will only have 24 hours in days, seven days in a week and 365 days in a year. Thus, we need to learn to work faster and do more in less time. Blogging is something that takes a lot of time. Thus, many business owners or internet marketers find it difficult to write excellent blog posts consistently. As an Internet marketer, you know that content is going to stay. And only high-quality content delivers the desired results. Here are some tips that can improve your blogging speed and skills dramatically in short period: Get Started Many times you need to force yourself to get started. Otherwise, you may keep planning without doing anything significant. Thus, create an editorial calendar and push yourself hard to stick to it.  Sometimes, you may also feel that you are losing on business because of writing content as it doesn’t bring immediate revenue. However, don’t let your mind trick you. You only need to adjust your routine in the short-term to gain an advantage in the long run. Many writers stuck in the beginning. They don’t know how to get started. I will suggest that do a brief research on the topic and start writing everything that comes to your mind. The key is to get started without worrying about the quality, time, or anything else. Work on Your Speed: Blogging is not just about writing. It has several other components which consume a significant time. Publishing a regular blog involves activities such as gathering topic ideas, research, writing, editing, creating images, optimizing the article for the search engines, publishing the content, and promoting it on the web, etc. Here is a bifurcation of time spent on blogging by some bloggers at Buffer. That means just 33% of the blogging time goes into writing whereas research, editing, and other activities consume around 23%, 15% and 29% of the total time respectively. If you want to write more in less time, you need to work on all four areas to boost your speed. Here is how you can do it: Idea Generation – Keep a small pocket-sized notepad with you. When you are not working – may be traveling, waiting at the airport, etc. – think about the titles and note down the title ideas. You can also use a smartphone for this purpose.  It is useful when you sit down and finalize the topic on which you are going to write the blog. Writing five ideas a day is more than sufficient to help you get going. Research Persuasive arguments have to be backed by relevant facts and statistics. Thus, research is a must for writing excellent blogs. That is why research takes around 23% of entire blogging time. You can significantly reduce the research time by using Google Search tools. For instance, you can find relevant results by limiting the search results to a particular period. Similarly, you can search statistics on popular websites by typing queries such as “site:abc.com keyword.” You can also use Google Advanced Search tools to find relevant information quickly. In the beginning, you may feel uncomfortable. However, inculcating the habit of specific searches on Google will save a lot of your time in future. Writing Content This is the area where most of the new bloggers struggle, partly because they are not confident about the outcome. To reduce time in writing content, you have to stop distractions and increase typing speed that improves with practice. According to research by TimeDoctor, people waste around 40% of their productive time in casual browsing. I have felt it myself. I recommend that you stop all tabs, mobile phones and everything else for at least an hour a day. That hour will be a work-hour when you will not scroll down Facebook or Twitter timelines or will not be opening a news site or YouTube. Devote that time entirely in writing content. Write whatever comes to your mind. Don’t open the internet even if you need some help in research. You simply need to write the content based on prior research and your thoughts. You will see a dramatic jump in speed of writing. Editing Editing is as important as writing the content. That is why it takes around 15% of the entire blogging time. Since you have written content at a stretch, you might have written a lot of things that are unpolished, vague, or unrelated. At the time of editing, you have to read everything again, polish the content and make the necessary amendments. Grammarly is an excellent tool that can save 20-30% of your editing time. If your editing is good, writing will automatically take less time as you will know that errors will be fixed when you will make edits. Content Publishing and Promotion While preparing editorial calendar, many bloggers overlook the time required to publish and promote the content. It demotivates them later when they don’t meet the deadlines. Use the following tools to accelerate and automate the content publishing and promotion: Use Pablo, Canva, etc. for Image Creation & Editing. You can also use free stock sites to search for relevant images. Wordable is an excellent tool to copy content from Microsoft Word or Google Doc to WordPress without losing the formatting. Draft Scheduler Plugin is a useful plugin to schedule your blog posts. It works well with Wordable. Note that when you are using Wordable, you can schedule only one post at a time. Therefore, you can’t use default WordPress scheduler to schedule your posts, and that is why Draft Scheduler Plugin is needed. Use Buffer to schedule and post your blog posts across various social media platforms. Bottom Line If you take around 1-2 hours to write

As you might know, Google Search doesn’t like duplicate content. Even though it will not get you banished, it will harm your ranking in a way that you can’t predict. Plus, your target audience is looking for fresh and original content, not something they have found before. So doing it won’t help you in anyway. But, there are many types of plagiarism, and you might commit it without noticing it. Especially if you are pressured by the time, you might make unconscious mistakes such as “writing blind” – when you quote someone’s words as if they were yours unintentionally. So to avoid it, you should try these seven ways to avoid plagiarism. They will make your website more Google-friendly and boost your SEO results. 1 – Do research one day, write another day Sometimes, it is hard not to copy what you just read. It looks great as it is, so your brain will automatically consider the easy way out as the best one, and you won’t even notice that you are repeating someone else’s words. So best thing here is to do research in one day and leave to write your content a few days later. It will give you time to process what you’ve learned and to come up with your own original ideas, which will lead to brand new content. 2 – When you finish it, re-write it After you get to write your content, then you should re-write it. Yes, it sounds like extra work, but it will pay off. Just consider it as part of your editing process so that you won’t feel as bad. But the point here is that re-organising your ideas and perfecting your sentences will help you to make them even more unique. You will be able, for example, to check a thesaurus and look for better words to say what you meant. You can add some idiomatic expressions or interesting collocations as well. In any case, it will be a reliable way to get your content to look not only more original but also more engaging. 3 – Go back to your phone and books Once upon a time, we didn’t have the Internet. And we would do just fine without it. So you can always time-travel, go back to your phone and books, and still find reliable and original ideas to your website’s content. The trick here is that it will force you to write things down and then re-write them into your CMS system. Especially if it is a long text, you will think is much easier to write it with own words and ideas then type everything again. And by doing it, you are less likely to plagiarise anything unintentionally. 4 – Find primary sources Using primary sources, such as research papers, case studies, and thesis,as a starting point to create new content will help you to have a much broader understanding of what you are writing. Interviews are also a great source of fresh ideas, and they will provide you with unexpected points of view. So you should make the most of theprimary sources as often as you can. Even if you think that they are too dense to your audience, they will be happy to get something well-researched in a format easier to consume. 5 – Use plagiarism-check tools Still, you want to be on the safe side here. And to achieve it, you should use plagiarism-check tools to verify if something passed without being noticed. Thankfully, there are many reliable tools available, some of them ready to stop those that spend hours trickingTurnitin, one of the universities’ and Google’s favourites in this field. But if you are looking exactly for the opposite, you can try some of the online tools available, such as Grammarly, Copyscape, PlagiarismSearch or Unplag. They are all paid services, butthey worth every cent of it, especially because plagiarism-check is just one of the features of most of them. 6 – Write your quotes down (immediately) Another tip to avoid plagiarism is to keep an inventory of everything that you want to use on your website as soon as you come across it. You can create a spreadsheet, for example, and save there every single piece of content that you found valuable along with their author and link to the source. This way, in the future, when you want to use it, it won’t be a vague idea in your mind. You will know for sure that is someone’s else idea and will be able to quote it accordingly. 7 – Create an outline Last but not least, there is something that you should do before anything else. After doing your research, you should step back and create an outline of your content. And this is because it will not only save you time but also give you a chance to organise your ideas in your mind. While you do it, you will automatically activate your critical thinking skills in your brain and come up with your own point of view in the end. And as a consequence, it will help you to discover original ideas and to prevent plagiarism. Originality Ai Unlock the full potential of your writing with Originality.ai – the premier plagiarism detection and originality checking tool. Ensure the integrity and authenticity of your work with our advanced technology and expert analysis. The bottom line Avoiding plagiarism has a lot to do with giving yourself time enough to analyse what you are going to write and to perfect it. It is usually when you are in anautomatic mode that you end up copying someone’s words so you should ensure that it won’t happen. So follow the tips above to prevent plagiarism from damaging your website’s results. As you notice, they are very simple to put into practice. Your SEO strategy will thank you for it. About the Author: Steven Mehler is an experienced writer, SEO specialist and social psychologist that works as an editor at a local newspaper and a freelance writer. Steven also runs his own content agency and is