Some of people, esspecially blogger, blogspot maker didn`t know how to make a good blog, an informative blog which is can`t make people bored or saturated with the view or the containt of blog. Here I`ll give you a tips from the site that searched by me.
Consider your audience
It’s a
simple thing to point out, but it’s very important nonetheless; who do you want
to be reading your blog? Who do you think will be interested in what you have
to say?
Consider
who they are, when, where, how and why they might be reading your blog, and try
and write in a way that speaks to them so they’ll understand and engage with
what you’re saying. Remember that your blog can be read around the world, too.
It’s
also important to remember that blogs can and do remain discoverable in search
engines for years, including by potential employers, so don’t post anything you
might regret in the future!
At the
same time, your blog is about YOU, and should be written in your voice and
style, not like an anonymous web-bot.
Are
you trying to get a point across? What is it? It might be useful to make sure
you have a purpose in mind when you sit down to write a post, even if that
purpose is just to describe something that happened to you recently. This
should help to prevent aimless rambling!
There
are several schools of thought regarding how long a blog post ought to be; some
people say short and sweet, while others think people like longer and more
detailed content.
The
simple fact is that it depends what you’re writing about: a simple
observation which rambles on for hundreds or even thousands of words is no
good, but neither is a short post that doesn’t fully cover a topic or explain
what you mean.
Experts
also suggest that posts of less than 250 words, or more than 1000, do less well
in search results; more on this later.
People
read online in a different way to how they read on paper – and they’re
generally much more impatient online!
Whether
your post itself is long or short, it will be easier (and quicker) to read and
understand if the paragraphs and sentences are short and the words are
recognisable. It may be tempting to write in as creative and enigmatic a style
as you can, but this could put people off reading if it prevents you getting
your point across.
The
design of your blog – font choice, colour, layout, column width, and more –
will also help to make your blog more readable. Try and keep your design simple
and free of visual clutter.
Pictures
which illustrate what you’re writing about can really help to catch your
audience’s imagination and attention, so it can be useful to use them. You can
upload pictures directly into your blog, or hyperlink to them. If you do use
pictures by people other than yourself, make sure you consider copyright and
make any attributions as appropriate.
Titles:
Attention-grabbing or search engine friendly?
Newspaper
sub-editors have had to learn how to write headings for the internet, which is
very different from writing them for print. Clever puns and intriguing
statements can catch your eye as you flick through a newspaper, but they’re not
the type of thing that makes content findable online. Unfortunately,
search-engine-friendly titles can often be a little boring and obvious. It’s
completely up to you which style you prefer to use, but make sure you know the
difference.
Other things to
attract search engines
The
title and opening lines of any webpage or blog post are the most important
things to help them be found in searches, and the words you use in these
headings and opening lines are the ones that search engines will pick up, so
make sure you point out what you’re writing about if you want your post to be
found.
There
are other things that can help, too.
·
Tags and categories: make sure you put all your
posts in categories, and add keyword tags, as these can help both with SEO
(search engine optimisation) and with navigating around your blog if you have a
lot of content.
·
Metadata on photographs: people search for photographs
online almost as much as they search for text, so if you use photographs make
sure they have proper words in their filenames and descriptions; if someone
finds your photograph, they also find your blog.
·
Links to and from other websites: the more links there are to
your blog, the easier it is to find, both for people browsing other websites
and in terms of where your blog will come in search results.
·
More shorter posts: some people think that it’s
a good tactic for SEO to write lots of short blog posts rather than a few long
ones; but consider that SEO experts suggest webpages with less than 250 words
or more than 1000 don’t do as well in search results.
·
Topicality: search engines are now so sophisticated that
they update in real time according to what people are searching for, so if you
can write a post at the moment of peak interest in a subject it can bump you to
the top of search results.
Ask your readers to
do things
Marketing
people refer to this as a “call to action”. You might be asking people to donate
to a charity, fill in a survey, click on a link to another website, or just
give their opinion via the comments box. A call to action gives your posts a
definite purpose, and encourages interaction between your readers and you.
How
you deal with comments is up to you, and will largely depend on the type of
comments your posts receive. Some might just need a quick response via another
comment, some might not need a response at all, and others you might want to
respond to via email if possible. At the least, acknowledging that people have
taken the time to write comments is an act of politeness.
Responding
to comments can be a good way of building a sense of community and expanding
your readership. It can also draw you into discussions, arguments, and “
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