How to write a blog

What do you really need to write a blog?

Once you start, you don't stop, you improve day by day
Credits: Fresh Science Trends

Acclimatization Phase:

1. First things first; what really is a blog? A blog is a regularly updated online publication—either a single web page or a full website—where one or more authors share content such as articles, news, opinions, tutorials, or personal stories, usually arranged with the newest posts first and often allowing reader comments or interaction. The term comes from “weblog,” originally meaning a personal or topical log on the web, and today covers everything from casual diaries and niche hobby sites to professional news outlets and business content hubs.
2. Choose which blogsite you will choose to make your blog. 
   
3. For an easier blogging approach, start with simple, hosted platforms that handle all the tech for you:
   WordPress.com and Blogger are beginner‑friendly, free (with upgrades), and good for article‑style blogs.​
   Medium and Substack let you just write and publish—no design or setup needed, plus they have built‑in audiences and email options.​
   Wix and Squarespace use drag‑and‑drop editors, so you can design a nice‑looking blog without coding.
   
4. If you’re comfortable with coding, these platforms give you much more control and flexibility for blogging:
   Self‑hosted WordPress.org – Full access to themes, PHP, CSS, and plugins; ideal if you want to customize everything and scale a serious site.​
   Static‑site generators – Tools like Jekyll, Hugo, and Gatsby let you write in Markdown, version control with Git, and deploy fast, secure blogs to services like Netlify or GitHub Pages.​
   Ghost (self‑hosted) – Node.js‑based publishing platform with clean codebase; you can build custom themes with Handlebars, HTML, CSS, and JS.​
   Headless setups – Use a headless CMS (Strapi, Contentful, Sanity) plus a front‑end framework (Next.js, Nuxt, Astro) to treat your blog like a full web app.
   
   

Writing Phase:

1. You must know what to write on.
2. Research about the topic only from valid sites (research articles, review papers, top news agencies, popular blogs [to be validated again by research articles, review papers]).
3. Give an attractive title of the blog.
4. Start writing in a very scientific manner and in an easy language, to ensure that audience of a vast age range can read, perceive, well-understand the whole writeup.
5. Try to make the whole blog interesting and interactive by often but not frequently asking questions like:
6. “So, how about this? Think yourself to be the particle at the center of the universe, and everything around you constitute your surroundings and is revolving around you. If that’s the case, you’d be the black whole while your surroundings would be that part from which all available mass and energy would condense into you or rather dive into you. Oh wait, how would you store all of that mass and energy inside you? For that there needs to be an ejecting point where all mass and energy can exit and that’s the white hole. So that implies you are the medium and not the storage.”
7. Main details, written in a pointed fashion creates a sense of “studying notes rather than a textbook” and helps to scientifically understand, perceive, and most of all, remember all things.
8. Remember the blog should have an easily comprehensible layout consisting of bulleted out points, an attractive and positive introduction, body and conclusion, well-laid-out paragraphs and interactive format with integrated interesting questions.
9. Remember, understanding but not memorizing is equivalent to not being able to accomplish the aim to write a proper blog. This is from the perspective of any audience of any age group, gender, and intelligence quotient.
10. Integrate proper apt-to-blog pictures. Give attractive caption and give proper credits.
11. Revise your blog as if someone else wrote it and judge it. Consequently, make necessary and required edits, be it major or minor edits.
    
    

Monetization & growth

1. Display ads (AdSense, Mediavine), affiliate links, sponsored posts, digital products (e‑books, courses, templates), consulting or coaching.​
2. Analytics: track page views, time on page, search terms, and conversions; double‑down on topics that perform well and improve posts with high impressions but low clicks.
3. Long‑term growth levers: consistent posting schedule, content clusters/pillars around main themes, updating old posts, building backlinks through guest posts or collaborations.

In the end, learning how to write a blog is really about practice, not perfection: start with a clear reader in mind, choose one helpful idea at a time, structure it with a strong headline, scannable sections, and a simple call to action—then keep publishing, improving a little with every post.