When you’ve reached this point, you need to check whether you have put into practice everything you’ve learned. This is the only way to become a top blog writer.

If you can say ‘yes’ to the questions below, you have truly completed the course. If not, re-read each article and complete the suggested action steps.

• Have you consciously applied the seven instant fixes to one of your blog posts?
• Have you implemented the 5 strategies to glue readers to the page?
• Have you checked the readability score of your posts?
• Have you written one or more posts that take into account the new style of writing for the Net?
• Have you checked your posts to see if you are stuck in the ‘Me-tape’ or the ‘You-tape?
• Have you tried out the eleven different ways of writing introductions that connect?
• Have you created twenty different versions of one headline following the guidelines of how to craft headlines to command attention?
• Have you downloaded and used the tip sheet of Leo Babauta’s Frictionless Blogging Method?
• Have you downloaded Everybody’s Guide to Proofreading and used it to proofread your posts?
• Have you read How to Crank Up Your Creativity and put some of the ideas into practice?
• Have you downloaded and used Leo’s tip sheet on how to find post ideas?

If you can say ‘yes’ to all of these questions – congratulations, you have worked hard and your writing will have improved dramatically!

If you have skipped some of the tasks, please go back and complete them so that you learn how to write like an A-List Blogger. And that’s what you’re here for, right?