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How To Display Summary Of Your Post
How many words per post do you usually create as a standard length of your post? Is it too long to display 10 posts that could make your blog stretched too much? If you are a long poster on blog and you have a minimum of 1000 words per posts, is it wise to minimize your post into summary to make your blog presentable to your readers.
Reader’s first impression
The first 30 seconds of a reader to scan your blog is very important in increasing your blog’s readership. So you should make every reader experience and enjoyable stay to your blog by presenting your blog in a reader friendly way.
Yugatech’s summarized post
Have you been to the blog of Mr. Abe Olandres? He is a very popular blogger based in the Philippines behind the “Yugatech” blog which reviews gadgets and news on the Philippine technology. If you visit his blog, you will see how organized his blog is. If you see his homepage, he displays 15 posts which include the latest blog posts summarized by the title of the post, writer’s name and days ago when it was published.
If you proceed to his blog directory, you will see that each post was summarized with a maximum of something words displayed. In his blog directory, he displays 16 posts. Every post was organized and there’s no picture displayed on it so it would be faster to load. When you visit one of his posts, then you can now see the whole post with the picture attached on it. During my stay in Abe’s blog, I feel so comfortable on viewing his posts about gadgets. I will rate it 5 stars for being a reader friendly blog.
Only 30 seconds is enough for a reader to decide if he will going to read blog posts that he need. Having an informative content with a presentable appearance will make your reader stay longer to your blog that will increase its page views, hits and traffic. It is sad if you have a great content but a horrible blog appearance that will make your readers hit the close button because he was confused which one to go.
The opportunity of having that reader became a regular guest will just disappear. One reader could give a very tiny impact to your traffic. But when all of them were satisfied with your blog’s user friendly characteristic, it could shake your web servers intensely.
Summarize post with a plug in
Evermore plug in can do the work on summarizing your the posts on blog. I use it here in bloghob and as you can see each post was summarized according to the number of words that I wanted to be displayed.
“An informative and presentable blog is a reader-friendly blog”
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Why Being Topical Get Most Of Attention?
about 11 months ago - 4 comments
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?
15 Fresh Ideas Of Making A Blog Post
about 11 months ago - 7 comments
Finding inspiration on making a blog post is a great idea of making a blog post on your blog if you are lacking out of idea what to write on your next post.
1. Facebook Updates -Open your Facebook account, feel free to create one if you don’t have it yet.
2. Digg – is a place where you can have plenty of traffic when your article gets lot of diggs from users.
3. StumbleUpon – Just like Digg, it’s a place where you can have plenty of traffic depending on votes on your stumbled article by users.
4. Twitter – Who else doesn’t know about twitter?
5. Delicious Bookmarks – There’s always fresh bookmarks on delicious.
6. Google Popular Search – The best way of finding inspiration of what to blog next.
7. Yahoo Homepage – Everyday there’s always hot news on the web. Every day there’s always fresh ideas what to blog.
8. Latest World News
9. Newspapers
10. Magazines
11. TV commercials – Media is the best way of communicating to the mass. Listen and watch on these commercial and try to get the technique of how an advertisement communicate to the mass.
12. Radio Commercials – Just like TV commercials, Radio is also a good way of communicating to media, so learn how they communicate to the mass.
13. Blog’s Popular Posts – If you see a popular blog post flooded with comments that are enough as social proof.
14. Popular Quotes – Popular quotes are proven and tested effective way of inspiring people. It is also a best inspiration for a blog post.
15. Your Own Experiment – With these fresh new ideas of making a blog post, what can you share on the blogging industry?
Temporary Or Sure Shot Money?
about 11 months ago - 7 comments
There are two ways on how to earn money through blogging. The first one is to submit an entry to “pay per post” and wait for approval of the advertiser.
If the advertiser found that your post didn’t meet the standards of his rule, then your post will be rejected. Otherwise it will be approved. Pay per posting is the easiest way to make money through blog. But there, you should also build on the traffic of your blog because there are some posting requirements that your blog should have a page rank of 2, 3 etc.
Therefore, it’s a challenge to make money while growing traffic of your blog. Posting jobs are also limited in PPP. You can only send posting request if you meet the entire requirements that your blog should have.
Another way of earning money is to buy your own domain name, render web hosting services and blog on the blogging platform that you prefer (usually Wordpress).
In this kind of blogging, you are absolutely free to blog anything you like. You’ll just need to work on your traffic a lot.
Based on an article, you can earn more if your blog have a blogging business model. If you are going to blog for yourself, then you’ll need to have 500,000 page views per day to earn in adsense for only $1,100 per month.
That was so hard. There are so many things you can do with that amount of traffic if you have blogging business model.
Yugatech is a good example of this. This personal blog of Abe Olandres is all about Philippine technology and news. The blog have tons of great sponsors and doing very well on blogging business.
How do you make money on blogging? Bloghob readers will be glad to read them.
10 Seconds Is Enough To Tease Readers On Reading
about 11 months ago - 2 comments
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.
Sweet Anonymous Blog Reader
about 11 months ago - 2 comments
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