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07 Mar 10 Make Your Blog Interesting to Read in 3 Easy Steps

Writing does not start from the time you press the first key on your keyboard, it starts long before that. It starts from the time you starts thinking about your writing. An article starts in the writer’s mind and ends it journey in the reader’s mind. Blog, website, or paper is just a medium though which the idea inherited in article is conveyed. Therefore, in order to make your article interesting you need to work on your thought process. And asking the following questions will help you in that.

What your audience what?

Do not just write what you feel is right because the chances are quite fair that most of the time it is not right. You need to ask your audience what they need. You can take help of occasional surveys, or visit forums in your niche or read other blogs in your niche to understand your audience’s need. This is very important.

What tone do they like?

Not only what you write is important, but how you write is equally important. You should not use just any tone of voice, rather you should ask your audience how they want to be communicated. Some people need authority-like guidance, while other wants to read blogs that treat them equal, while other wants to feel superior. Use the tone your audience wants you to use.

When do they want to hear it?

Timing is equally important. If everyone in your niche is publishing its article at 10 AM then there is a good reason to that. May be it’s the audience who want that! You should research in this as well. Observe when you see spikes in viewership. And also ask your audience if they want you to post daily, or posting on alternate day will do? Should you write on weekends?

These are the decisions you need to make, and these along with creative use of words and sentences will make your blog interesting to read.

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05 Mar 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 11

This is the last post of the series, and in this part I will talk about how you can sound all knowledgeable to your readers by being on top of the news and by writing resource posts plus one more.

Set Alert in place

Set Google Alert, Twist (for twitter), and Blogscape (for blogs) for the keywords you are targeting, and be on top of the updates in your niche. You can then capitalize on the recent happenings and tell your readers how they can profit from it. By being top of the news, you will sound knowledgeable and will be regarded as an expert in your niche.

Write a resource post

A resource post is a must-have for any blog. It gives your users a reason to bookmark your page. A well-written resource post has an ability to pull visitors again and again to your blog. It is also very much digg-friendly. You need to have as many resource posts as you can think of.

Write quality guest posts

Guest posts are new black for blogging. Write quality guest posts, and while writing them you goal should not only be to get published on the blog of your choice, but also to lure the readers to your own blog. This could only happen if you write quality guest posts.

With this our 11-post long discussion on making your blog stand out from the crowd comes to an end. And I hope, you enjoyed the series, and worked on the bite-size tips shared in this post. You may like to bookmark this post, as I am providing links to all the posts that I wrote in the series. Let me know how you feel about this series, and what changes you would like to see in future series.

Index

  1. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 1
  2. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 2
  3. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 3
  4. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 4
  5. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 5
  6. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 6
  7. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 7
  8. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 8
  9. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 9
  10. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 10
  11. Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 11
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26 Feb 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 9

A blog is considered a friend not only because it shares information with us, but because it shares it in a way that touches us personally. Like a friend, a good blog entertains us while telling us things that matter. It also cares for what we think and how we want it to behave with us. This is the theme for today’s post. Let’s begin exploring it.

Consistency is the key

Be consistent with what you write and what you support. Very few people can stand talking to a person who keeps on hopping from here to there, saying this and that, supporting him as well as him, and you will not like those very few people be part of your audience. Be consistence. Be true to your core, and say only what you mean.

Be the beacon and guide people

Do not hesitate in sharing your expertise with your audience. Share with them the knowledge you have acquired on the way to reaching here. They are going to like it. Write insightful posts, share things that matters to all. Be prolific. Write with grit. Write with gusto. Write for fun, and write to teach.

Picture gives the cue

Why a novel has a cover image or a blog post has a theme picture? Well to explain what the post is all about. Do not just use any picture, use the one that goes with the message you want to convey in the blog post. This will help you build rapport with your audience.

As they say it, picture speaks a thousand words.

I hope you have started to give shape to your blog in the light of what is being taught here. Share your link here, let’s see what you got. Waiting to hear from you.

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