15 Fresh Ideas Of Making A Blog Post

Do you know Brian Clark? He’s the genius behind the blog copyblogger.com. He is always consistent on writing interesting articles everyday. And everyday, there are thousands or readers reading his blog.

Right now, there are tons of guest blogger writing for Brian. And these coming months, Brian has so many schedule of being a speaker. If you read Brian’s posts, you’ll find out that he always write post on improving a blog’s content and building readership and traffic on blog.

As a proof of his excellent readership, he always receives comments on brilliant readers; Usually 100 comments per post and lots of retweets.

Copyblogger’s guest blogger Sonia Simone is also a good example of blogger who write remarkable blog posts. She is a senior editor on copyblogger and did a great job on being a founder of Remarkable Communication.

Now, she write great articles on copyblogger where tons of reader reading her posts. Like Brian’s posts, Simone is always consistent of writing great articles about blog improvement and marketing.

How do they win the heart of their readers? Is it because they always have a topical content on their blog? How to write topical content?

1. Be consistent – One of the most important thing to make a blog post is to be consistent in what you are writing about. When you are just starting to write on a narrow niche, expect slow coming of readers. But when they slowly crowded your blog, expect nothing. Just be consistent on writing on your niche.

2. Stick on your blog’s goal – Making a mission and vision on your blog clears the path for successful readership. Therefore, making an idea of what to write will not be a hard thing to do anymore. You’ll just need to follow the path where you started. Keep holding on your objective and set a goal for it.

3. Respect your readers just the way they respect you – Your reader’s opinions are the gold that you can dig in your blog. Savor their appreciation and always understand what they are trying to say.

4. Expect someone who misunderstood you – There are times that some of your readers misinterpret what you are trying to convey. If you think that reader needs a sincere explanation on the information you write on your blog, then respond to the reader’s comment.

How about you? Do you write topical articles to your content?

If you have given 10 seconds chance to attract a reader to read your blog, how will you construct your first paragraph?

The first ten seconds of a reader is very crucial to your blog post to be read. In this length of time, the reader have the option to either visit your blog, read it on the reader’s feed or just ignore your it. Therefore, you should focus on that length of time on attracting readers to read you post.

First items that your reader see on your blog post that you must improve:

Post title – There are so many techniques on how to craft the title of your blog post.

* Catch the attention of your reader – An ordinary title of a blog post doesn’t work more effectively nowadays. I’ve noticed that the more unique your post title is, the more chances for it to be read by a reader.
* Shock a reader – Exaggerating post title is one of the effective ways on having a reader continue reading your blog post. It throws curiosity that makes a reader click on your blog post title link to continue reading.

Opening line – Reading your post’s opening line takes only about 5 seconds on having a reader make his decision on reading the whole content.

* Always through curiosity – Jump start your first sentence by making a readers said “What’s this? May I have the information? Let me glance a little.” Therefore after reading that first sentence, your reader will start on scrolling down your blog to see the rest of your post.
* Start with an interesting question – Are you going to read this tip? Therefore, you should continue reading in order to learn something about this post. That one is just an example. It catches the reader’s attention especially when the question relates on what they want to read.

The above are the basic things that the reader of your blog reads on their first 10 seconds of visiting your blog posts. Another factor is to have a reader visit your blog from your feed reader.

I have tried this before, I subscribed to my own blog and see how my blog feed appears to my email readers. I would suggest you do the same so that you can monitor how your feed works.

Below are the first items that your reader see on your blog post on your email feed:

Title of your feed – This will serve as the title of your blog post. It appears the same with your blog post title.

* Tease reader to read – The same on blog post title, the title of your feed is an attempt to direct your readers to your blog post. You don’t need to worry about creating it because when you create your blog post title, the feed title will automatically created as the same.

Excerpt – There are so many techniques on how to create excerpt on your blog.

* Attaching the whole post – Copying the draft of your post then pasting it directly to excerpt allows your reader to directly read the whole post of your blog right in their email.
* 3 periods symbol to tease a reader – Maybe copying a little line on your blog then adding (…) as the closing line could make a reader click on the feed title and read your blog post directly to your blog.

These days, exposing the content of your blog was made easy by the help of social community sites such as Twitter, Stumbleupon, Blogcatalog, Blogged…

Tips on writing short but informative post.

Which plug in you should use to display summarize of your posts?