By Keeping Your Headlines and Subject Headers Extremely Simple and Concise, You Will Generate Dynamic Web Content for Every Visitor to Your Site
KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID!
Your website or blog content area should be designed with simplicity in mind at all times. The navigation bar should be so easy to use that a blind person should have no problem with getting around your web pages with ease. Your main content text should be black, with a background that is as light as possible so your readers can easily see all the…
Recently, one of my posts became popular on a forum about Windows Vista versus Windows XP, simply because the title of the post seemed relevant to the forum discussion. Unfortunately, it’s a very brief post from 2002 that hardly deals with the subject at all. In fact, it’s pretty dull.
The question now is: should I rewrite this little bulletin? I could use this traffic as a chance to earn some readers by providing a really good post. If nothing else, I wouldn’t need to be embarrassed about tons of strangers…
It’s your blog so you’re free to write what you want. But don’t you write for your readers? Sure you do. You write articles that you hope capture the imagination of your readers and keep them coming back for more. Traffic and regular readership are the keys to a successful blog. Without people reading your blog and reacting to it through commenting and subscribing there would be little point in blogging at all.
So how do you give them what they want?
Easy. . . You listen to what they tell you?…
Writer’s block can be tough. It’s often easier to give in and give up than to struggle through, especially when you’re writing a personal blog and accountable to no one. But that’s not quite true, is it? You are accountable to someone: your readers. Your blog might only be read by five family members, or it might be read by five thousand strangers: either way, you’re providing a unique service to them that they can’t get anywhere else. This service is, of course, your own individual take on the world.…
If you’re wondering why your blog’s readership seems to be lagging, it might be time to take it back to the kitchen. Even though your blog is solid and filling – you post every day with well-researched content – you might be lacking that extra spice that keeps readers asking for more.
Pepper your sentences
In this case, the pepper is vocabulary words. Just like with real pepper, you don’t want to go overboard – too many obscure words will obfuscate your meaning and leave your reader baffled and bored. However, throwing…
