Feb 6 2008

5 Blog Improvements You Can Make Today

blogging tipsWhats the one thing that could improve you're blog the most? Everyone has a different opinion on what steps you should take to improve your blog. I've listed a few of the tops tips I've found over the last few months that I believe will help make your blog the best it can be for your readers.

1) Ease of use and reading. Everyone needs to be able to quickly and easily read your blog in order to suck down the info you are attempting to throw at the reader. If you've got a clunky blog layout that has mushed text the user will not be able to digest the content as easily as a blog layout that has a neat layout. Text size is always an important factor, anything smaller then 9 point gets too small for most users to scan and read through affectively. Take some time and enlarge your text just a notch or two, you're readers will thank you.

2) Keep your sponsor ads confined. If you have a lot of sponsor blocks for your site try to keep them in their own section. This doesn't apply to text ads obviously, but it becomes annoying to read a huge chunk of text only to be interrupted by an animated flashing ad. Keep the sponsors roped into their own section, if a user really wants to click on it they will.

3) Put in pretty images. Its a fact, everyone loves looking at photos. Whether is an photo blog or a tech news site, photos help the blog appeal to more readers. A photo is worth a thousand words, so post a photo that is in conjunction with the blog posting and instantly make it more appealing. Readers tend to look at the photo first then the heading, then the actual post itself. Keeping this order in mind, if you post a photo that grabs the readers attention you can double hook them with a bait title.

4) Learn to write more professionally. Whatever language you are writing it, there are always ways to improve your writing style. Now I'm not saying change the way you write or the intent behind it, but use of power words and marketing ideas can greatly improve the stickiness of your posts. Advanced Writing Solution for Professional Results is one way you can improve your writing skills. A blogger that has the ability to constantly improve their writing style is a blogger that can consistently make more money each month from their blog.

5) Run your blog your way. The fact that you've been blogging for this long should tell you something. It should tell you that you've got something to say and that you want others to listen. Don't change your opinions just to make others happy. Take a stand and stick to your guns. A good blog will challenge users to think on their own and generate comments.

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