Sunday, November 30, 2008

How To Write A Perfect Blog

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.

Most of the time visitors just scan the blog for any points that catch their attention than reading the entire blog. So the main goal when writing a goal becomes to catch the attention of the visitor in the first few seconds so that they continue to read the entire blog. Given below are few helpful points to keep in mind when writing a blog post.

Grab the attention of the visitor: The first approach is to write small two or three sentence paragraphs divided into sections with bold section headings. The visible section headings will make it easy for the visitor to get an idea of the entire writing and then select the section he is most interested in. This way they would decide whether to read or not a blog. So keep the section headings crisp and attention grabbing.

When is the last time you looked for an interesting illustration or photo to go with your blog posting? Even an odd looking illustration will force the reader to pause and ingest this information. Capture their attention with the image, and they may stay to read your blog to learn more.

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.

First Write the content, then the title: The title of the blog should present the full ideas in the blog and at the same time it should be catchy. So it is a good idea to first write the blog completely and then write a title for it. In this way it becomes easy to create a title that encompasses the entire theme of the blog.

Startle the browser by being controversial on your subject title. By going against the flow of the normal brain process gives you a chance to be above the storm of blogs. Be prepared to substantiate what your title says or you will lose readers.

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. - 16463

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