A blog, among other things, consists mainly of content, and the main reason why people check out your blog is because of what your content has in store. The background design does have some bearing, but if you want to generate more traffic and reap more income from blogging then you must learn how to optimize your content. But how can you exactly do that?
Here are a few quick yet highly effective tips on optimizing your blog entries:
Come up with consistent blog posts. Whether you are posting images, write-ups or videos on your blog, the most important thing to remember is to keep a steady theme on your entries. You cannot just enter something that’s not actually related to your niche (this only works for personal blogs) because you found it interesting. Rather, feature topics that are equally interesting but at the same time relevant to your chosen niche. This way, other audiences can check out your blog since your entries have proven to be helpful to their inquiries, while at the same time tickled their interest. Consistency is also important mainly because it gives a direction as to where your entries are going.
Do not require registration when adding comments. There are times when readers would want to post comments on the blog entries that they have read, but they’d decline because they are too lazy to register first. The best solution you must do is to enable them to post without the need of undergoing a registration process. This way they can voice out their rants and raves about your entry, and you would know what exactly your audiences want from your blog. You do have the power to remove those which are not in any way related to your blog entries or those that seem to be spammy. Also, through comments you can find people who can do business with you-they may be in the form of link farmers or business partners who want to make partnerships with you in the future.
Review your old blog entries. Your past blog entries play a significant role in optimizing your whole blog. Why not skim on them during your free time and check out if there are any errors with regards to the theme, or if there are topics that can be rewritten in a different point of view. There are times when your old blog entries are still highly relevant in today’s issues, only that there were not written in the way they should have been in order to be effective. Also check the stats of your back entries, and those that have the highest visits can be rehashed or become ideas for your new posts in case you are running out of content.
Underline the important keywords and anchor texts. Do not expect that all your readers are tech-savvy. At times they may see bold texts but do not notice that these are anchor texts that redirect them to your site. The best thing to do then is to underline these keywords for them to notice easily. Underlines help a lot in highlighting the importance of these chosen keywords, and as well point your subscribers to a particular destination.
Recommend related topics. What makes your blog shine is not just by showing off your ideas to your readers. You become more famous and earn more traffic when you feature other blogs that provide valuable content related to your own. Bright ideas are never found in just one place; hence it is more effective when you open up your readers to new frontiers. Why not write about a particular blog that has been working on the same niche as yours and give it a review? In this light, your audiences are given the opportunity to check out other possibilities that can answer their inquiries while at the same time return to your blog since they know you can take them to the places which they want to go to.
Highlight the most popular entries. Aside from reviewing your previous posts, it is also recommended that you highlight the entries which have been your audiences’ favorites. Through this you get to market your previous articles to new visitors as well as the comments from your regular readers. Your old posts then will continue to be active and your whole blog constantly visited. Of course, that would mean more traffic!
Come up with catchy article titles. When reading an article, the first thing your readers would look for is the title. A boring title would not attract readers, and from there your blog will easily die. Use catchy words and phrases (that apply to your entry of course), particularly those that have an inviting tone that can lure readers to click on to your blog. From then on they will get to check out the other stuff that you have, and return to your blog each time they are in search of something related to your niche.
December 20th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Thanks for the tips.
I have to say that I find it very much a pain in the butt to be required to log in just to comment. Most times I just keep my comments to myself and move on.
I do need to go through previous posts and see if I can improve on their focus.
My biggest problem right now is creating those catchy titles.
December 20th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Thanks for the tips!
Btw, I think you should re-layout the post by using heading tag to make it easy for readers to read
January 1st, 2009 at 11:45 am
Review old blog posts is a good tip. Over time, you would have already many posts written and you may have made some changes like your main keywords you want to rank, your writing style etc. Going over old posts and make some of these changes is something worth doing.
Peter Lee
January 5th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Hi Ahson,
There are some really useful points here.
You mention keeping yor blog posts on topic and I would agree with you here. I am not particularly interested in what you had for dinner or stories about your dog – and that sort of thing.
Your suggestions about re-writing old posts that have gotten a lot of traffic is really good. I definitely have old posts which have received a lot of traffic (obviously I hit upon a really good keyword phrase here). It is time for me to revive and re-write some of these older posts.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Nice post.Thanks for the good tips. Your tips are really amazing.Your suggestions about re-writing old posts that have a lot of traffic is very good.I like very much.
March 4th, 2010 at 4:51 am
I like your all tips, especially taking car about the old posts. I always check my commentators and give them reply for any issue they are facing.