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We all know that content is king and producing really engaging content for your blog or for your YouTube channel is really going to make it take off. But doing that takes a lot of time. So how can you increase your output? That’s what we’re gonna talk about today. So don’t go anywhere.
hello, YouTube and a very special hello to all my subscribers, my name’s Phil. And welcome to my channel. This is where I document my journey, trying to build an online income. So if that’s something that you are trying to do as well, why not subscribe? So today we’re gonna be talking about an idea that will help.
To increase your output in blogging, but also when producing your YouTube videos. Now I have to admit to you, this is not really my idea, as I’ve never really had an original idea in my life, but this is a case of convergent evolution. And yes, I had to look up that phrase. So I’m a member of Project 24.
And one of the best things of this program is that there’s this kind of community, this forum, where we can interact with other members. Now, the thing about the Project 24 members. Is that they are really smart people and they share their ideas. Derek J actually created a post. He was asking, how can you guys write so much?
And Steve M this is totally his idea. Steve M said how he did it. And it was really weird because it was something that I had been thinking about at the same time. But he put it down in black and white before I did. So this is definitely his idea. So if we talk about writing a blog post, what kind of takes the most time?
Apart from the actual writing, it’s the research. Now, when you are starting out, when you don’t really know much about your niche, You’re gonna do a lot more research and it’s gonna happen every single time. You are unsure of what to say within the blog post, apart from research things like adding images, adding YouTube videos, they’re gonna take a lot of time creating tables, infographics, that sort of thing.
It all adds to the workload. So Steve then has come up with a different approach and it just moves the things around and it helps him to write many more blog posts at once very quickly. So this is what he does now. He actually says that he takes about a month out and he just does lots and lots of research.
He reads books, which a lot of bloggers don’t actually do. He watches YouTube videos. Interacts within Facebook groups, he probably also listens to podcasts. And what he should also be doing is a little bit of journalistic research, where he is actually asking experts within the niche. So he spends about a month doing this and then.
He writes his blog posts. And he says that what happens is because he has collected all these notes through about a month’s worth of research. He’s able to write his blog posts pretty much off the top of his head. And this really doesn’t take as much time as when you are researching every little point that you want to talk about.
Now, I’ve certainly found this to be true myself compared to writing my first blog posts about a year ago. On my first Project 24 website now I know a lot more things within my niche. So I basically just write and I can’t stop. But the other thing that’s quite interesting with Steve M’s approach is that he just writes pure text.
He says all he does is a little bit of interlinking within his own website. Maybe put in a few, a. Links, but then that’s it. He publishes it. He doesn’t put any images right there. And then he doesn’t add his YouTube videos or anything like that. No tables, no infographics. He actually comes back and does that later.
So what I imagine he means is he writes post one. Gets it published, moves straight onto post two, post three, et cetera, et cetera. That means that his output per day, per working hour is much higher than someone who’s trying to do everything at once. As I said, I was thinking about doing this as well.
It’s something I’ve been moving. Towards I’ve been doing it more and more, but as I said, Steve, put it down in black and white first. So I have to give him credit for this idea. Now, some tips for research, what I would do is if you are planning to write, say 2, 3, 5 blog posts next week.
Okay. You’re gonna focus your research on those titles. So producing your hit list in advance and knowing exactly what you’re gonna write, that’s gonna help you really focus on your research. So as you’re going through and reading your books or your sort of going through other blog posts or YouTube videos, whatever it might be.
When you create your notes, which you’re gonna work off later on, make sure you know where all your ideas have come from. As I said before, I’ve never had an original idea in my life. Most of the things I pick up from other people. So it’s always a good idea to cite your sources unless you’re doing original.
Original research. You really want to say where that idea came from, because it actually gives you more authority. If you are citing experts within your field, it’s gonna make your blog or your YouTube channel a little bit better than the people that are just spinning content from lower quality blogs.
Let’s say the other thing you should be. Is, you should be saving links to the YouTube channels that you’ve been watching, the videos that you’ve been watching, because you can actually put these into your blog posts later, or you can refer to them if you are also producing a video and. If you are using a lazy loader, this is a really good way to avoid having to pay for stock images.
Because with the lazy loader, the YouTube video, the thumbnail will appear as an image until the user actually clicks on it. This is something I’ve been doing for many months now. And I really think it’s upped my time on page because people will watch a video that’s relevant to. Post or the actual subheading that you are writing about at the time, if you are reading books, which is a really good thing, because most bloggers don’t do this, make sure that you take a note of the page number, the chapter, the author, all these things, because if you cite them within your post, even if it’s a no link mention.
This can actually help you. So Google is moving towards this idea of no link mentions to build up authority. Now this can help you with your E a T if someone’s doing it to you, but it can also help you appear. More of an authority if you are doing it with other offers. So make sure you always know where your ideas come from.
And another great thing about doing this research and taking this approach is you’re gonna develop new ideas. If you come across new questions that people are asking in Facebook groups, or you come across an idea that sort of you didn’t realize, or it turns on a light bulb for you. This actually happened to me the other day.
I was listening to a podcast. Yeah, suddenly that light bulb went on and I realized that I had been misunderstanding something for a long time. So once you come up with these new ideas, you can add it to your ideation list, your hit list, your pre hit list. So doing this kind of research is a great way to find new titles that you can write later.
Okay. So whether you are spending a month doing the research or you’re spending a week, or even just doing the day before, eventually you’re gonna have to sit down and write. So what I like to do before writing is I just read my topic heading, and then I take the dog for a walk.
And as she’s sniffing around and doing what she needs to do, I’m just thinking about what I’m going to write. How am I gonna lay it out? What ideas would be best linked to it? How will I develop this post? Basically now, not everyone has a dog, but you can do this when you are commuting. You can do this when you are doing exercise, all manner of things.
But I like to ponder things to get away from any distractions and then really plan out that. Then when I actually sit down, I will always put the heading in making sure I’ve capitalized the first letter of every word. And then I actually plan out the post I put where the snippet’s gonna be.
I normally write snippets and put it in bold in a. Big letter. So I don’t forget it cuz my approach is to write the snippet at the end, after I’ve written the entire post, I go back and write the snippet as a summary of what I’ve written. I find it’s much easier to do that. Just for me then afterwards I’m gonna lay out the subheadings and I make sure that I’ve got them all there.
I know what’s going to come next. And then it’s just a question of writing the information for each of those. But the most important thing is before you start writing, turn off your phone, turn off Facebook, any sort of distraction. If there’s kids in the house, I dunno, locking them away. Is that legal?
Maybe not, but whatever you need to do, get away from distractions. Give yourself a solid hour. Two hours, however long you need to write that post. I do find that when people are sending me messages or phone calls, it’s much harder to progress than if I’m in a silent space with no distraction. So with Steve, then what he would recommend at this point is to go onto the next blog post and do that, and then come back maybe much later to add the images, the YouTube videos and all those things.
What I would recommend you do is if you spend one week doing research and one week writing just save those posts as drafts. And then in the third. Go back through them and add your images, your YouTube videos, add those tables, infographics, all those things to really make your post or your YouTube video as useful as it can be.
The reason I say that is that life has a habit of getting in the way. And if you leave your post too long and you go back and add to it, If you’ve added too much, Google may want to rerun it, retest it, and you could lose several weeks or even months. So I think it’s a good idea to do one week of research.
One week of writing, one week off. Adding to those posts, all the things that you need to add. Okay guys. Many of you know that we’re in the middle of the content warrior challenge all this month, we’re trying to write as many words as we can. I’m actually doing fairly well across all my websites.
I think I’m at, to. Up to about 40,000 words at the moment, but I thought this is a really good way to help you produce more content just throughout the year. So all props go to Steve M cuz this is a really good approach and it’s definitely something I’m going to be adopting. So if you would like to benefit from people like Steve M then you really should consider joining Project 24.
It’s an internet marketing course that really shows you everything you need to do to build an online income. And I’ve really enjoyed being a part of it. Basically showing me a lot of success so far, but of course there’s always room for improvement. If you want to find out more, then you can click on the link in the description.
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If you’ve got any other tips that we can share with each other, please leave me a comment. Thanks for watching guys. I really appreciate your support and I will see you in the next video. Oh, by the way, FC, am I still looking sweaty?