 Four e-commerce blog post templates to generate traffic for your website. Hey guys, JR Fisher here. Hey, blog posts are one of the cheapest, easiest ways to generate traffic. And a lot of people don't even know how to start. But in this video, I'll show you the four best ones you can do, and you can use them for your website and start generating traffic. If you haven't subscribed already, maybe you're new to the channel. Maybe you forgot to. Make sure you subscribe. Hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to turn on all bell notifications. So you're notified each time I upload a video, or if I go live. Give me a thumbs up, too, if you don't mind. That will really help the distribution of the video. So let's get into this blog post thing. It doesn't cost us much, but we've got to have the right ones. We've got to have the right template, and that's what I'm about to give you. Okay, so you've probably tried to do a blog post, or you've heard about this, and you do it, and then there's crickets. Nothing's happening. That's because you didn't have the right template. So let's get into the right way to do this. The first thing I'm going to tell you is know your audience. Know why they're interested in your product. Know why they're buying your product. What's the pain point they're trying to solve? Know what their interests are. Know where they're at. Know what groups they're part of. In other words, know your audience. That's the number one way to have a successful blog post is to know your audience. Now, if you're having trouble answering those questions, you're going to have trouble with a blog post. So imagine how much easier it would be to write a blog post for a 34-year-old single woman who's an executive, who has a dog at home, who likes to buy from local businesses, and is considered a foodie. Okay, so if you could say that about your audience, you're well on the right track. If you can't say that about your audience, then you're going to have a problem. Next thing I'm going to tell you is know your purpose. What is your purpose? Why are you blogging? Why are you doing this? Okay, is it to build your list? Is it to get more sales? Is it to get more engagement on your website? What is the purpose of it? You've got to set that up first. And make sure you set up your site with analytics, Google Analytics. You can see what's going on. You know, maybe your goal is to have one or two percent of the people who come to a blog post to actually buy something from you. You won't know that if you don't have your analytics set up. That is something you need to have set up on every site. So let's get into the different type of blog posts that are so important that people read more than anything else. Okay? The first one. What is the first one? The first one is a gift guide template. These are awesome. Okay? You could use these all the time. You can say it's a Valentine's Day gift guide. It's a Christmas gift guide. It's a spring and summer gift guide. It's a, you know, what, what type of gift guide is it? Gift guides work awesome. These things kind of do double duty because they not only help the reader, but there's something that the reader is more likely to share with other people. So if you can get that share factor in there, along with people reading it, you're going to be a whole lot better off and you're going to get more traffic automatically. Now, a great way to go about this is to have eight or 12 items on your gift guide and ideally have, you know, two, three, four of them being your own products. Certainly if they're not your own products, you want to have links in there that are affiliate links going back to those products because that way, if they don't buy your products and they buy somebody else's, at least you're going to get a payment off it. Number two is the roundup post template. What's a roundup post template? It's a bunch of items and some of the items can be yours. They could be affiliate links, but a bunch of items that people need when they are getting ready to do something, okay? So we're building a house in Texas right now for a new home there and there's certain things we're going to need. We're going to need furniture. We're going to need some kitchen stuff. We're going to need decorations and all these things. So it could be a roundup of items for people moving into a new home. That would be a great template for your particular blog and by putting these things in here, you not only help people out, but it makes it once again shareable and by putting in products in there that maybe aren't yours, you have affiliate links. You can make money off those too. Now you can also do a roundup post. I love these where what you do is you take your top eight blog posts for the past year and it's a little bit of a snippet of each one of those with links going back to those blog posts. So what you've done is you've had people say, oh my gosh, these are the eight best ones. I want to look at these. And then as they go down the list, they can click on it and go to one of those blog posts. You're driving even more traffic to all your other blog posts that you list in that blog post. Number three is the how-to blog post. There is nothing better than a how-to blog post. If you don't have those on your site, you're missing out. How-to blog posts solve people's problems. That's one of the biggest search terms is how-to, okay, on Google, how-to whatever. Maybe it's a blog post on how somebody can do their makeup. Maybe it's how they can survive in the woods with no food for three days. Maybe it's on how they can repair something on their car that they don't want to pay a mechanic for. There's so many how-tos that you can do out there. It's really kind of never ending. And since that's the number one thing that people look for online is how to do something, you can be the solution to that and you can drive more traffic to your blog post. What you want to do in these is you want to introduce the idea. Okay, so maybe the idea is how-to make the best Italian food, okay? So that's your first part of the blog post. Next part may be a list of the steps that they need to take to make the best Italian food. So maybe there's certain tools. There's pasta makers. There's blenders. There's different types of tools they need for the kitchen. And understand as you list all these things in your steps of things you need to get, you can have affiliate links and it can lead to that product. You can actually make some money off the products too. Then I would follow up with an overview of each step and how to complete each one of those steps. It could simply be, you know, to get this blender, you're going to want to go to Amazon and you're going to want to click here, whatever that case may be. But you want to show them how to complete each one of those steps. Next thing I'll tell you to keep, you know, looking at your blog post images. So I would have an image for each one of these steps. Now, sometimes you can get these images, you know, from Amazon if they're Amazon links. You do want to be careful with this though because a lot of images are copy written. So if you're using images, make sure you're using a paid service or you're searching on Google that it doesn't require any attribution or anything like that. But I think the safest thing to do is go to a site where you're going to pay a set amount each month so you can download images for your blog post. You're going to need these in the future anyhow. So I think the smart thing to do is just pay for a service. Now you can buy the individual pictures but when you're buying individual pictures, that can get really expensive especially if you're doing a lot of blog posts. And the last one, number four, is the interviewer. The interview blog post. Oh my gosh, these are so good guys. Now some people have combined the interview blog post with a podcast, which is a really good idea. It's a great idea to do a podcast with somebody, get some expert. And if you can get an expert to talk about their ideas about a subject matter or how to do something and you are the one interviewing them, then you buy association become an expert too. That's how that works. That's why so many people want to interview people who are famous or have some expertise because then they look like they have expertise too. It's that fame by association I guess I would call it. But the cool thing is if you do a podcast and you interview somebody and nowadays everybody is okay with doing a zoom or some type of online interview where you split the screen. You can do something along those lines. You don't have to be there in person. And then you can take that transcript of that interview and you can have your questions and their answers and your questions and their answers. And that makes for a great, great blog post. It's more interesting that way. If you can include some pictures along the way, all the better of the different people that are getting interviewed of you yourself. So you can tell them snap five or six pictures of yourself in different positions. And I'm going to put that in the blog post too. A lot of times you get people to do that. And that really keeps people reading like I said last one if you have some images in there. I know I've done several of these myself where I do online interviews where I've been interviewed. I've done ones where I'm interviewing somebody else. And those are some of the most viewed things because when somebody is reading your blog post or watching your podcast or whatever it may be and they can get information from two people, they almost feel like they're part of the conversation. And in many instances when I've done the interviews, we have had people actually ask questions during the interview. And they will reference that particular person. So that's a cool way of going about it. And then if you're doing a blog post, you can add that into your blog post also. So all four of these ways are really all you need. I mean a lot of people try to come up with new ideas for blog posts. But these four are the best ones that are out there. Why not use the best ones that are out there? It's simple. It's easy. I've given you a guide to go through this. You now know the four best blog post templates to generate traffic for your website. If you have these, you're off and running. Okay? Just put a little effort into it. Make sure you put time into it. And the next thing I'll tell you is consistency. Make sure you're doing these on a consistent basis. If you can only do four of these a month, okay? Don't put them in there on Monday through Thursday. Put one a week. Okay? That's more consistent. Google likes consistency. YouTube likes consistency. And if you spread them out over a period of time and you continue to do them, you're going to have much better results. And I hope you have great results. And let me know what your results are. Put your comments below in the comments section below. Let me know what you thought of this video. Okay? Let me know what ideas you have for new posts for my channel. I'm constantly trying to come up with something to help you guys out to start running, grow your online business. I really appreciate you watching. And if you would do me a kind favor, give me a thumbs up there. Also hit that subscribe button down there. 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