How To Write A Blog Post Fast [In 1 Hour Or Less]

How To Write A Blog Post Fast Step-By-Step In 1 Hour

Being able to write blog posts quickly is key to consistently putting out content over time.

It’s true that as you write more posts, you’ll begin to understand what works well for you and how to write blog posts more efficiently.

However, the steps that I wanted to share with you should hopefully help you speed up this process and produce quality blog posts in the process.

Here’s an overview on how to write a blog post fast in 1 hour or less:

• Step #1: Keep A List Of Blog Posts On Keywords You Want To Rank For
• Step #2: Research The Topic To Present Opinion On Findings (15 minutes)
• Step #3: Write Intro With Keyword (5 minutes)
• Step #4: Create Outline Using Headings To Answer Questions (5 minutes)
• Step #5: Explain Each Subheading Topic/Question (25-30 minutes)
• Step #6: Add Feature Image & Supporting Images/Videos (5-10 minutes)  

Let’s get started with Step 1.

Step #1: Keep A List Of Blog Posts On Keywords You Want To Rank For

One of the things that helped me when starting out with my blog was creating a complete list of blog posts I wanted to write in a Google Sheets spreadsheet.

This helps to save time when you’re ready to start a new blog post and avoids the problem of searching for hours on end for new keywords.  

I’ve found that by doing the keyword research upfront for several articles in advance also helps to stay consistent long-term.

It’s fairly easy in the beginning with the first few blog posts to be fired up and ready to go write on a new topic, but after 4 months and likely still hardly any traffic to your site things can get a little disheartening.

At that point, having a solid list of at least the next 10 blog post titles that you’re going to write on should help a ton with staying focused on creating content.

Step #2: Research The Topic To Present Opinion On Findings (15 Minutes)

When you’re writing your first few blog posts, I recommend starting with topics that you’re hopefully already familiar with and have an affinity for.  

This will help you to hit the ground running and not have to spend nearly as much time researching the information for your blog posts.  Every little bit helps to save time when you’re just starting out with a new blog and a new online business to stay motivated and persistent.

The posts that you’ll want to focus on trying to get down to writing under one hour for should be right around 1,500 words long.  These should answer a specific question centered around a long-tail keyword that will be much easier to write faster and do research on.

The more lengthy pillar posts on your site will take more time, since you’ll likely be researching statistics and other data to put together into a longer post that’s typically 3,500 words on average taking several hours to a day or two to write.

Note that the word count for these blog posts that I’m mentioning are simply to help you gauge the length of content that you should be aiming for to be able to write within an hour or less.

Step #3: Write Intro With Keyword (5 Minutes)

The next step you’ll need to do is start to dive into writing the intro of your blog post.

The intro should be around two to three paragraphs or anywhere from 4-10 sentences typically.  

Additionally, you’ll want to include your keyword somewhere in your intro as a common SEO best practice.

By keeping your intro short and sweet, it allows you to get it done and out of the way to move on to the next step of creating the outline for your post.

Step #4: Create Outline Using Headings To Answer Questions (5 Minutes)

Next, you need to create an outline of headings based upon the research you conducted earlier for the blog post.

I like to lay out the main questions that users are searching for surrounding the topic/keyword and use those as subheadings.

You can do this by looking at the “People Also Ask” boxes in search results or taking a look at what comes up in Google autosuggest when you type in your main keyword for the post.

Step #5: Explain Each Subheading Topic/Question (25-30 Minutes)

Now that you’ve got an outline laid out with each of the subheadings, it should be much easier to write each portion of your blog post.

One way to think of it is like writing short couple hundred word blog posts for each subheading, which makes it much easier to not lose your train of thought or get distracted.

I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve gotten distracted when writing a blog post and ended up running out of time and having to finish the post another day because of it.

By having an outline ready to go and the research already done, all that’s left for you to do is fill in the gaps and write on each subheading.

Step #6: Add Feature Image & Supporting Images/Videos (5-10 Minutes)

The final step to completing your blog post is adding in images and videos.

The good news here is that you really don’t need to put in any other images besides the featured image if you don’t want to.

However, images help to break up the text a lot of times and can potentially better the user experience.

Additionally, if you add videos to your blog post then you have a good chance of increasing the time on page for the visitors to your website.