One of the most important keys to blogging success is providing exceptional content. Follow these five tips to make sure your blog posts not only get read but make people want to come back for more. 1. Choose the Appropriate Tone for Your Blog Every blog has a target audience it's written for. Before you start writing blog posts, determine who your primary and secondary audiences will be. Who will want to read your blog and why? Are they seeking professional information and discussions or fun and laughter? Identify not only your goals for your blog but also your audience's expectations for it. Then decide what tone would be most appropriate for your blog, and write in that tone and style consistently. 2. Be Honest Blogs that are written in an honest voice and truly show who the writer is are often the most popular. Remember, a critical component to a blog's success is the community that develops around it. Represent yourself and your content honestly and openly and reader loyalty will undoubtedly grow. 3. Don't Just List Links Blogging is time-consuming, and sometimes it can be very tempting to just list links to other online content for your readers to follow. Don't fall into that trap. Readers don't want to have to follow a breadcrumb trail to find something interesting to read. In fact, they might find they like where you lead them more than they like your blog. Instead, give readers a reason to stay on your blog by providing links with your own synopsis and point of view about the content of those links. Remember, a link without context is a simple way to lose readers rather than retain them. 4. Provide Attribution Don't risk being accused of violating copyrights, plagiarism or stealing content from another blog or website. If you found information on another blog or website that you want to discuss on your blog make sure you provide a link back to the original source. 5. Write in Short Paragraphs The visual appeal of your blog's content can be just as important as the content itself. Write your blog posts in short paragraphs (no more than 2-3 sentences is a safe rule) to provide visual relief from a text heavy web page. Most readers will skim a blog post or web page before committing to read it in its entirety. Text heavy web pages and blog posts can be overwhelming to readers while pages with a lot of white space are easier to skim and more likely to keep readers on the page (or to encourage them to link deeper into the site). http://weblogs.about.com/od/bloggingtips/tp/TipsWriteBlogPosts.htm
A good one. Whenever we take blogs for the promotion of our sites. we should remember about the number of links. How many links you are adding to the blog. As per my opinion Try to get only one and two links in a blog.
Thanks for sharing mate. Another thing that I hate about blogposts is those 2000 word posts just to attract search engine's attention.
which is why about 95% of all blogs are 'zombie blogs', with a last post about 3 years ago. Which is why most successful blogs (statistically) have an element of autoblogging about them. OP - nice points, but you forgot the most important point of all - write original engaging content.
This is true, as a reader, I dont usually read very long posts cause it's tiring. Much better if the write-up is cut down to a normal level.
I have seen that people don't click on Links directly they need some trust about you and your site before they buy something. So being honest is the most biggest thing.
Here are ten tips that help you on blog writing. 1. Make your opinion known 2. Link like crazy 3. Write less 4. 250 Words is enough 5. Make Headlines snappy 6. Write with passion 7. Include Bullet point lists 8. Edit your post 9. Make your posts easy to scan 10. Be consistent with your style 11. Litter the post with keywords For more read: problogger.net/archives/2005/12/30/tens-tips-for-writing-a-blog-post/
Good stuff dude...Long time I don't try blog posts and after seeing your thread I just remembered about this. Thanks for sharing.