Monday, November 24, 2008

Stand Above The Crowd With The Best Blogs

By Don Bethune

The primary goal of a blog is to persuade your visitors to read the contents. As the internet is flooded with blogs on any topic that anyone can imagine, it is really a hard job to keep the attention of the visitors.

Regular readers of blogs have learned to to sift through blogs by scanning for any specific topic that catch their attention rather than reading the entire blog entry. Understanding this reader filtering technique should clearly show you must follow suit by creating attention getting information that makes the reader wish to learn more after just a few seconds. Use the following suggestions to improve your blog posts.

Snag the focus of the visitor: Make them curious by creating short paragraphs that have sections text emphasized or set in bold headings. Clearly displaying these sections will provide enough highlights to the reader of the general sense of the entire article. The reader can zoom quickly to the sections of interest and study further your blog article. Keeping each point of your headings clearly displayed and intriguing will draw their interest.

Another trick to attract visitoras attention is to keep an image at the beginning of the blog. Beautiful images keep the visitor in the page for more time and the chances are that he will attempt to read the contents also.

The Blog laser, bullet points: Condensed ideas listed with bullet points will quickly communicate your thoughts to the blog reader. Zap away the fuzzy text by sending clearly defined short points to the reader. Seeing such lists of concise information will increase your blogs reading time to be increased.

Build the article and then craft the title: It seems obvious but the title really needs to be the distillation of the article. Its much easier to pen the attention getting headline title after you have completed the entire thought of the article and it is still fresh in your mind.

Every now and then writing a divisive title or going against the normal way of common thinking about a topic is the most excellent way to get the visitorsa attention. But if you are using controversial topics make sure that you have sufficient matter in the content to substantiate your title.

Why let the reader walk away? Get them to blog through comments on your blog: Make an inquiry at the end of your blog post that simply motivates a blog reader to respond through further questions or comments by their blog responses. Simple hooks that keeps the reader participating in your blog by posting related information from their experiences will only increase the value of your blog website. - 15790

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