5 Effective ways to spice up a blogpost!
By in Blogging on 21st December 2007Everyone wants to be interesting, charismatic and what not as a blogger. Here are some tips to make your blogpost more interesting!
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Attractive Headlines
The headlines are the first thing the users/visitors notice before going on reading the actual post only if it’s interesting enough, this topic is best explained by CopyBlogger on this post : Cosmopolitan Headlines
The more curious your readers get the better, its a good thing to get people confused about the topic at times, and its true what they say “Sex Sells” and this is the saying at practice.
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Interesting and High Quality Images
I find this to be a really effective way to get readers to get more involved in your blog or maybe just consider the post for a full read, lets face it no one wants to read when they want to learn something everyone is lazy and i consider myself to be one of the most laziest i might even be on the top 50 or maybe the the top 20 even, the best way to get people’s attention is images related to the topic or if you want to go in a totally other direction get totally unrelated and vague images as long as it looks good it doesn’t matter a lot of people have done this successfully one of the blogs that use images is ProBlogger.
Here are some great resources to get images from - given the fact that you will be courteous enough to link back
But remember, you should only add images after you are done writing the post its much like the icing on the cake.
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Use 3rd party content. (text/audio/video)
Rather then linking to other content you can embed it into your post or if its text you can add it as a quote and leave a link back to the original post that way you can keep the readers already reading your blog, this is one of the biggest reasons a blog loses its readers, when you are a new blog just springing up from nothingness you can’t go around linking to high profile blogs once your reader goes over to that blog you can waive the reader goodbye, so keep it within the blog that you are writing on.
A good way to go around dealing with 3rd party content could be screenshots as well you can just take a screenshot of the part you want your readers to know and post it within the post. If it’s video then the resources are way too much heres a list of video resources that allow embeding:
If you are going for audio then i would suggest going for podcasts, that way your readers can get to know you on a higher level and feel the sarcasm in your voice as well, i find the sarcasm to be a much better bait for a blogger it creates controversy while keeping you in the green zone, sweet ain’t it?
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Polls, Surveys and Ratings
Don’t you love it when you feel like you are a part of something?
Readers love knowing the fact that by reading a blog they were a part of something if you put up polls or surveys for a topic to get more info on the subject by using your readers and let everyone know that the data will be used in the following post then that will entice your readers to actually go through the poll or survey hence giving you more user interactivity, a new blog usually gets no comments unless its something really interesting because its a known fact that 70% of new blogs online fail to become successful.
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Free Stuff
This is my favorite and most effective tactic, give away free stuff or blog about free stuff one of the best examples here is Smashing Magazine and their latest giveaway the Dilectio Smashing Wordpress Theme. In my case i design and giveaway several kinds of wordpress themes myself which includes my oh so awesome Adsense Optimized Wordpress Theme : Weblogger. Giving away free resources not only gets you relevant readers but it also gets you more experience and more content to blog about so its a win win situation you get more info to blog about and better your skills and your readers get free stuff.If you blog about a topic and then give away some links or free resources regarding that topic you will get a more positive reaction from your readers, after all who doesn’t love free stuff?
December 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
hello there…
very useful post..just what i need for my blog..have a look and please leave ur comment…i am a beginner..u r a pro..
can u be my guru? hehehe
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
This is nice…i think this is good job
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Great tips! Just recently discovered your site and I am very happy that I have finally found a blog worth reading and subscribing to especially for newbies like me.
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Very useful post, if only I had time to implement all of your tips, I usually just post what’s on my mind without thinking much about how it will looks like and will it be interesting or not,lol.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Excellent ideas to keep a blog interesting and appealing to the subscribers! Your ideas are helpful to new bloggers and pros alike…
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Its really useful thing. Its about how to keep your blog interesting, what you should post and etc.
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
It will do nicely for my blog, very good tips
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I am very inerested how much time did you write these tips.
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Also I can see its a very informative wroten, good job.
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
So far its the best post I have seen over the week.
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Also the pictures make the post event more interesting, also good tips with Interesting and High Quality Images. Nice job
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I run a blog over at PeterFoti.com and will defintley take these tips into consideration when I am posting.
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Yeah, it was the images on this post that drew me in. I think i will have to start using more random images
December 24th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Good ideas, bloggers should definitely use the amazing free resources to be had to spice up blogs and websites. There is so much free multimedia content, stock photos, etc available that no blog needs to feel lacking.
December 24th, 2007 at 1:57 am
WOw nice images and colors its look so cute
December 24th, 2007 at 3:31 am
Fascinating information and some great resources here. I am always looking for ways to spice up a site, so this is very helpful.
December 24th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Great tutorial and great ideeas guys , thanks a lot . You really helped me to improve my skills in blogging.
December 26th, 2007 at 3:47 am
I may as well try one of these tips on my blog.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Wow!! It’s very very helpful and useful! Thank you very much for this post. I’m apprecianting that.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Wow! It’s very very helpful and useful! Thank you very much for this post. I’m apprecianting that.
December 27th, 2007 at 3:42 am
As a blogger, I can tell you with all honesty that adding a colorful, relevant image to the beginning of most blog posts will attract far more attention that most people imagine.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:49 am
These are great tips! The “Free” stuff always does the trick.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Interesting ideas however, personally I think quality posts are the only thing you need to get a blog rolling not things fancy to the eyes, however it can’t be UGLY.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Thanks for the nice post, I am already using some texual work, but thanks for reminding me to use graphics more. well some may say that pic might be irrelivent but if you have some relivent pics that its a boon for your post, and can attract a lot of readers.also pics sometimes acts as marks, like i sometimes remeber many blogp ost just by the image used in them
December 30th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I already using the txtual work andthank u for this useful info…
I am small waste comparing to u…
December 30th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
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January 1st, 2008 at 3:00 am
i am very impressive
this is very helpfull thing . i think i will use it
January 1st, 2008 at 9:00 pm
First, very nice tutorial and a very good idea. I think peoples should us it. The “Free” stuff always does the trick.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Post with a lot of information.Thank you for it.