Sunday, November 9, 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.

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!

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.

Concentrate on the bulk of your message then write the title headline: Your blog title should represent the primary message of your blog article and gain the readers curiosity. Compose your entire blog article and then pause for a moment to make the right blog title. This way you have distilled the entire message while the composition is 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.

End with an open ended question: To encourage the visitors to leave their thoughts and opinions always end the blog with a thought provoking question. The user will leave more interesting writings as their comments. This way you enhance your blog with the opinions of a group of visitors attached to it.

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