WordPress Blogging

Blog Writing

Blogs are a great way for anyone to get their ideas across to others and a great way for businesses or individuals to do some free advertising.

Creating a great blog is an excellent way to drive more traffic to your site. When building your site there are certain tips a person should pay attention to when they are writing content for their blog.

1.  Write

When you are writing content for your blog, write it with your readers in mind.

When a reader is looking for information that may pertain to your idea they want the information in a way that they can both read and understand easily.

2.  Valuable and Worthwhile

People have no time to waste looking at a boring site. If you cannot think of anything creative to talk about, then try to do an interview or even a book.

Anything will do as long as you are not posting useless content.

3.  Proofread

It is of grave importance that you proofread your material before you push that post button.

Once you push that post button that is it. The error is out there and there is no way back. Respect your reader and keep your site free of errors and easy to read.

4.  Short and Simple

Keep your postings as short and simple as possible. It is human nature that people are scanners.

You will need to make your point quickly otherwise risking losing your reader completely.

5.  Lively

Write to your readers as you would talk to your friend or family member. The more lively your posts, the more engaged your readers will become.

Make it seem like you are talking directly to them and only to them.

But be sure to make your point quickly.

6.  Links

Use links as often as you can. This will help you create credibility and help establish yourself to the reader as an expert on the subject.

You can also create a network by linking to other similar blogs. The other bloggers will thank you.

7.  Keywords

Use your keywords as often as you can. It will allow you to stay on task and the search engines will love it.

The more keywords you use the higher your rankings on the search engine your blog will appear.

8.  Write Clear

You need to write your blogs in a way that the average person can understand.

Do not ever try to put more than one idea in a sentence this will confuse your readers. Make sure you use your commas as often as possible

9.  Headline

Make sure your headline is easy to understand and should have keywords relating to your blog in it.

Internet users are impatient and this is a given fact and webmasters and blog owners should accept it.

There is no changing the nature of your prospective visitors.  Truly, internet users seem to suffer from a perennial case of attention deficit disorder.

They often judge a website based on their initial impressions of the same.

Bad design or user interface? Poorly selected images? Are the colors a poor choice?

Visitors will quickly hop to another website ever so easily.

Of course, one of the primary criteria for the determination of whether a particular website or blog is the right one for them is the quality of the content before them.

 They almost always NEVER read all of the content. They prefer to scan and survey the words for the details that may be of use to them.

If they find what they need, or at least, something that manages to capture their interests, they will stay. If they don’t find such things, they will leave and go elsewhere.

The trick lies in your ability to capture their interests immediately.

If they don’t read the entirety of your content, you must be able to provide a condensed version – a summary if you will – of your articles/entries for them to conveniently use.

Don’t make them load up pages just to do this, they will quickly run out of patience and give up on your website.

As much as possible, provide the condensed versions of your content on the first page they will see when they visit your website. If you’re a WordPress blog owner, this shouldn’t be difficult.

Post Teaser, one of the most popular WordPress plugins today, will give you the ability to offer teasers on appropriate pages in your blog.

These teasers will show an excerpt of the content that is being previewed, a link to the page where it can be found, and options to provide the following details: word count, image count, and projected reading time required.

At first glance, Post teaser might sound like a WordPress plugin.  However, studies show that it is one of the most essential WordPress add-ons being distributed today.

Post Teaser helps your blog save up on precious bandwidth – something that is a big issue if you are generating monstrous traffic but you’re under a limited bandwidth web hosting plan.

Visitors will be encouraged to visit only the pages they like after viewing the previews created by Post Teaser. Lastly, Post Teaser makes your WordPress blog look cool…cooler than walls of textual content, at least.

Post teaser is a free WordPress plugin that should be in every blog