Friday, January 23, 2009

Perfect Your Blog Post

By Don Bethune

Traffic is important to any website, be it a business one or a personal blog. If you are a manager of a site then you might have pondered from time to time on the various ways to increase traffic on your site which could be an adult site or for, say Canadian users.

The answer to this is not too difficult. Make your site well known and attractive. Both of these depend on the nature of the content of your site. Through this article I will give you certain tips to create the perfect blog post for your site.

A perfect blog post should contain some keywords in its title. Search engines use keywords to index and retrieve the page links. Keywords in the title of the page will be weighted higher then keywords in its body. Since most users search engines to find things they want, putting keywords to the title of your blog post will bring more chance for it to be in search results and that would not have increased website traffic of your site.

However, because search results usually contain huge lists of page links, if your title is not attractive, the users will not open it. Therefore, you should name the title attractively. In my opinion, an attractive title should be concise, state clearly about the goal and/or the content of the page. And it should make the potential reader thing that they would be benefit if they read it.

The body of your post should be as attractive as its title and both should be in consistency with each other to make it interesting. It should be the best part of the article. If the body of the post is not interesting then the reader will be let down and not revisit your site and that would be the exact opposite of your goal, i.e. to increase traffic to your site.

One thing to keep in mind while writing a good blog post would be to break it up into at least three parts. One for the introduction one for the conclusion and the rest for the other details. The introduction could contain the context and objective of the article. The body or the details could be an elaboration of the ideas of the post. Each idea should be explained in a different paragraph.

Donat write your post too long. Keep it short and simple. Because some people, such as me, tend to be afraid of long documents. They just wonder whether it is benefit to read all this long document or it will waste their valuable time. If the document is short, they will feel easier with it and be more likely to read it all.

That is the reason why I will not make this article any longer. To help you remember things you just read, I will conclude here. That is, to write a perfect blog post, you should write it concise with a introduction, a conclusion and some details. The title should be consistent with the body, contain some keywords, and be attractive. - 15431

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