Saturday, October 11, 2008

Stand Above The Crowd With The Best Blogs

By Don Bethune

A blog's entire purpose is to share text information that hopefully a large number of people will loyally read. The problem is that so many people are trying the same thing by posting blogs. It can be difficult to stand above the crowd of so many blogs. How do you maintain the interest of the readers?

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.

Add a thousand words to your blog with a relevant picture at the top of your blog entry. An attractive photo can grab someone's attention even if the headline is not that great. They can study the image and see if it relates to the blog. That means they are still on your webpage!

Make it easier with bullets: Bulleted lists are a useful technique to convey your ideas in a concise manner. They allow presenting your ideas in a manner which helps to read and understand quickly. It also forces the visitor to look at the specific content as the bulleted lists stand out in a blog. Bulleted list will definitely increase the possibility that a visitor will read a blog

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.

Shake the readers up by being deliberately counter to the normal thought process on a particular subject. Surprise them by fulfilling the title in an unusual way. They can be surprised and pleased by following the unusual plot twists of your blog posting. Educate them by completing the thought of the title with the body of your article.

Engage the reader to take action by posing a question: Readers will help you add content to your blog site if you provide the hook for their input by comments and questions. Add interest to your blog by having others respond to your questions. - 15359

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