Tips: Treat Every Post As a Landing Page

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?

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…

Of course, no one wants to create a blog post that no one will read it. While technology is evolving so fast, you should always hold on your grip tight to stay updated for the latest trends and updates. A blog post is also involved in the evolution. If you are going to stick on

Have you experienced lacking out of topic to blog? If you maintain a blog, you need a lot of fresh ideas of what to blog. But even in just one single topic, you can extract up to 21 topics. I will suggest that you do the brainstorming method first before you write your content to