So, you have been writing for long and are quite content with the way of life. Good, have you ever given it a second thought why despite all your honest effort, visitors’ loyalty is not shooting up. And the probable reason could be that they are not finding anything interesting on your blog and so they are not returning to your blog to have second look.
And the only way you can make them return to your blog is by adding some great posts. Now I do not aspire to play God here rather what I am trying to do is to share some great tips that have actually worked for me. So, by following these tips, you might turn things into your favor. Lets start exploring:
Shareability:
Before you go on churning out or rephrasing content published somewhat else, you need to be honest with yourself. Put on the shoes of a general user and try to image, would you care to share this post with your friends over Facebook after reading this. Or would like to give it a thumb up by tweeting this post. Now, if yoy really feel that your post has the spark in it, you can go ahead and publish it, it will surely be one of the greatest posts you have ever made. However, if you feel that the post still lacks the Wow factor, you should make changes in it accordingly, add some punch lines and whenever possible try to strike cord with the readers and believe me this will have an over powering impacts on the readers.
Does it Deserves Comments:
Do you that you blog post deserves to draw some comments from visitors. Would they care to go through the entire post and then post comments? Definitely, this is not that easy. Your post should be convincing enough to make people read and comment and here is a simple trick to do. You should write things in first person and whenever possible try to engage the readers so that they are tempted to comment on your posts. Try to add some controversial elements in your posts and you will see a steady uptick in the number of comments.
Are You Saying Anything New:
Since the number of blog owners is on the rise, you should make sure that your posts are significantly different from the rest of the others. Just regurgitating the same things over and over again will not help you either. You need to do some brainstorming session and come up with topic that people will find really interesting. Make sure that your posts are refreshingly new as far as the topics are concerned and for that you need to do occasional sabotage to your blogging career. Take a little break and try to find the creative streak hidden in you and you will come up with new and interesting ideas for sure.
Is there Any fun Elements in the posts:
People have enough of this serious shit. They are everywhere from newspaper to your neighbor. So, it is better, you should make your readers laugh even when you are talking about the most serious thing on earth. You do not make any sacrifice on the style front for adding fun elements in your writing. It is just the difference in approach and nothing else. Follow some satirical writers and you will definitely develop a new writing style. A great achievement for you as a writer and a great reading experience guaranteed for your visitors.
If you can follow these tips, your visitors may turn into loyal visitors.
We should also add pictures or videos to add some glam to the post. Even good pictures and videos make the visitors come back again and again.
I agree with you. Adding relevant images to make the post more attractive and It makes the visitors come again.
I agree, too. But, with a big warning: don’t overdo it. Putting too many images on a page will not only provide distraction to the reader’s eyes but will also impact page speed. Relevance is the norm. It’s not the images that the readers are there for. They are there to read your content. So, post only relevant images.
Good points you got there. I would like to add one more: One should pay a lot of attention to the language, i.e. spelling, grammar, phrases etc. This especially applies, if you’re not a native English speaker. I’m not, and I usually google the phrases I’m not 100% sure with quotation marks to get a sense if it’s proper use. And still make a lot mistakes 😐 Native English speakers certainly have a lot of advantage in that sense.
It can be a good idea to write, for example, some popular sayings, thoughts or even jokes at the end of every your post. Or you can place a photo or picture related to information that is written or anything else. You just need to make your blog an outstanding one, to make it look like not others
It is often times difficult to bring humor in some posts. I think my biggest peeve is readability. I have read in many places to level your writing/posts so that everyone who happens upon your site is able to comprehend what is written. I think this is an important aspect or tip as well. Great points! Defiantly gives you something to think about.
I’m trying to practice on how to write and rewrite articles in different versions but still unique and readable. I came up with an strategy and I want to know your thoughts. By writing the articles in different format and presentation we could actually reproduce the original article. If you want example I can send them to you.
Very informative and effective! Blogging depends on how you present your content to online viewers…
It is often times difficult to bring humor in some posts. I think my biggest peeve is readability. I have read in many places to level your writing/posts so that everyone who happens upon your site is able to comprehend what is written.
Hi Mickeal,
I always check my statements from 2-3 different sources so my articles are right and that create a high credibility and trust for my webpage.
The fun element part is pretty important part of blogging. Once you get it, the post, if having some unique content, can really drive your sitemeter crazy!!!
Sometimes pictures attract the visitors, so it is very useful to add catchy pictures in the post
Definitely been working on these things. I’m fighting hard to make my posts fun and interesting, and I’m working hard to earn my comments. It appears to be working, just not nearly as fast as I’d like 🙂
Great Article,
Excellent questions you mentioned in post.
you can ask these question by yourself before hitting PUBLISH button.
I’ve one more tip i.e. Do research before writing content these thing make simple for writing long post for search engine.
Thanks for post. Keep posting.
Best regards
Anubhav