Articles in Category: Technical writing process

Are you looking to publish technical blog posts? If you are, it’s probably one or more of the following goals you’re after:

• increase the SEO footprint;
• build trust with the developer audience;
• decrease churn in your product or service by better informing your prospective customers;
• reduce the support load by showing your customers how to use your offering effectively.

In all of these cases, the blog posts you produce must be of high quality; otherwise you won’t see the positive results you expect. The components of high blog post quality range from a pleasant reading experience to accurate technical details.

In this article, we walk through 5 ways to improve the quality of your technical blog posts. Use these to update and tweak your existing writing, and have them in mind when creating technical content in the future.

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Good content is vital to the success of any technical blog because it provides brand awareness, promotes consumer engagement, and helps the company connect with its audience. This is why it’s important for you to start working on some quality technical writing for your online blog and social media sites.

However, before you begin making software blog posts, you might consider a bit of planning. A content schedule gives you and your writers a plan to follow and makes it easier to generate content over time.

A content schedule can be as simple as a sheet of paper filled with titles for upcoming blog posts or as complicated as an Excel document that contains subject matter, items you want to touch on in each post, keywords and phrases that will improve SEO, and specific names of products you want to feature.

Regardless of how detailed your content schedule might be, here are three reasons why a schedule is a must-have for technical blog posts.

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