As much as we would love to believe they are, our blogs are never perfect. There are always atleast a few little things that we could do to improve them! I had a quick brainstorm to give you a few things to check on yours!
5 Small Things To Improve Your Blog Instantly!
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Check Your Spelling And Punctuation!
This is something I am constantly guilty of and have to make myself check, but there is nothing worse that having just posted a fantastic article – expecting fantastic comments. Just to find that instead you are receiving comments letting you know about spelling errors. Be Professional!
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Make Sure Your RSS Subscription Is Large and Visible
Now I’m not trying to tell you to all go out and get massively huge rss buttons that take up a quarter of your page. I just personally think that you need to be advertising your RSS subscription, so make sure it is not to small to notice – and it is in an easy to find place.
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Remind Your Visitors To Subscribe At The End Of Your Articles
When is the best chance to convert a visitor to a subscriber? When they have just read some of your amazing content! So wouldn’t it make sense for you to give them a friendly reminder at the end of your post? I use an image, but you could quite easily use the feedburner email subscription form instead.
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Trim Your Categories Back
This is something I have just done! I noticed a few of my post categories only had 1 post in them, so I moved the posts over to another category and cleaned things up a little bit.
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Format Your Posts
There is nothing worse than reading a whole article as one huge chunk of text. Make it easy on your readers by dividing the post up into a couple of points and use titles. Not only does it make it easier to read but it looks much better also!
These are just a few simple things that don’t take a lot of effort but your readers will appreciate it! As bloggers our focus should not only be on providing great content but also on providing it in a way that makes the readers time on your blog as enjoyable as possible!
Do You Have Any Simple Tips To Add?
Hmm great Tom.These tips are great.But Ill recommend you to put a plugin called subscribe remind to you blog.This plugin automatically reminds your readers to subscribe.Any way good post
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Most bloggers including myself use to always forget #1. We used to forget checking spellings and punctuations. :)
Anyway, you got a nice design.
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Great Tips.. Thanks! ;)
-Monty
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those are some nice and NEW tips.
thanks for sharing. :D
Advice I always give is to have all links open in a new window.
That way my blog is still open, no matter what my reader looks at. Makes it easy for my reader to go back and continue reading.
And it’s accomplished with some simple coding:
http://www.learntoearn101.net/2008/05/dont-lose-your-readers.html
Diane – I totally agree. I always try to make my links open in new windows.
I probably spend more time after the fact on numbers 1 & 5 then I do writing the dumb post in the first place. LOL
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Good advice. I’d add soliciting feedback from friends and colleagues. As long as it’s honest and constructive feedback, it could be useful.
I often forget to check for grammar and spelling. I’ve read that there’s a few spell checking plugins for wordpress, but they’re still full of bugs. So for time being I tend to write with a dictionary :)
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