Wednesday 26 February 2014

Great Advice On How To Improve Your Blog

By Elene Hasson


If you're regularly posting to a site to voice your opinion, it would be called a blog. If you want to start your own blog, search for blog hosts that are user friendly and highly customizable. Doing this will allow you to use your blog to its full potential. Read the article below for more advice.

Create a themed blog according to what you are writing about. For example, if you have an agriculture blog, build your colors and theme around country roads and corn fields. Colors that seem out of place will be more likely to turn people off from reading and enjoying your blog.

Try asking readers for feedback. Be sure to interact with them. Don't assume that you know exactly what it is that your readers want from the blog, try asking them outright. This can be done in your comments, by creating a specific post for feedback by email, or social networks like Twitter. You could even use online communities.

Keep your readers' attention by reducing the text blocks. If your readers see a large, ongoing length of text, they are apt to move on. This intimidates the viewers sense of comfort and ease of reading. They will anticipate a more interesting read if they see small chunks of text, that are easy on the eyes.

Ask readers to subscribe to your blog in an area on your website. Make this area visible but be sure to ask them at some point to sign up. This will add to your list of readers and will make most of them come back and read your blogs later on.

Exercise patience and remember that a new blog doesn't become popular overnight. Building a following for your blog takes time. Additionally, until you have a reasonable amount of content, there will simply not be much available for readers to view. As time goes on and you create more content, more people will eventually see it.

An easy thing to do, that will assist your readers review pertinent material in your blog, is to include bullet points. These not only aid the reader in scanning, but will also break up your entry into a more easy to read piece. Make your bullets bold to enhance the ease of use as well.

Be sure to openly present yourself on your blog. Create an "About Me" page with the type of information you wish to share, as long as you feel that it expresses you properly. Also try including these types on any other sites that you tend to be active on. Use a lot of plug-ins on your blog because it gives users the motivation to stick around and explore more of your site. The longer you have someone on your site the more likely they will be to make a purchase. "Most popular posts" and "relevant posts" are just a couple of the most popular plug-ins.

You can devote as much creative time as you want to the content of your blog, whether you post once a month, once a week, or daily. Posting regularly and consistently will help draw lots of traffic to your site. If you remember the tips you just learned, you'll quickly begin to see success at running your blog.




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