You Can Gain Readers for Your Blog With Less Effort

September 24, 2014 Writing Tips

If you write a personal blog, or would like to, or if you write for a purpose, there are some tips and tricks that will improve its content make your blogging life easier. Writing regular content takes time, concentration and good ideas if you want someone else to read it. If your blog is a record of your fascinating stream-of-coconsciousness for your friends and family, go for it. If you want to provide interesting facts, entertainment and useable content for your readers here are some tips.

Keep Your Focus

If you write about travel destinations, describe the sights and sounds of the locations, the local food and tips for functioning in a different culture. If you write about current events or news, you should try your best to be objective, so readers will consider your blog as a credible source. If you review products and services with the intent of being helpful to others, you should invite readers to give their reviews too. If you start with a working title that can be changed later, it will keep you focused on your topic and help you avoid pointless tangents.

Keep Your Facts Straight

You can perform a site:serch to check the facts and data you’ve already cited in past posts. You can also use Factbrowser, which is a data search engine to make sure you are not giving wrong information. If you have sites to which you regularly refer, keep them on your desktop or in folders to minimize the time you use searching. You can also keep a list of links that you regularly include in your posts to increase your authority. People love tweetable facts, and your post will get promoted if you add tweet links to facts.

Organize Your Time

For many people, the slightest excuse is enough to pull them away from writing. You can get your blog written quickly and efficiently if you block off writing time during which you won’t take any interruptions. It’s also a good idea to sign out of chats, and turn off your phone, so people won’t disturb you.

Find Your Voice

The easiest way to write is to write the way you speak. This also gives the reader a better experience because the words flow more naturally. However, if you are writing technical content, and plan to get the facts from an expert, it’s a good idea to write in question/answer style. If it doesn’t already have it, add social sharing buttons. You’ll extend your readership without any effort on your part.

Tricks That Make Writing Easier

• Even though it was said to keep the focus of your blog, when you are writing the first draft, you can ramble a bit and include personal anecdotes and examples. You can always remove them later, but they may be worth keeping.

• Add a photo of a cute puppy, kitten, baby or whatever. These add positive images that put the reader in a good mood before beginning to read.

• Use humor whenever you can. Just as short paragraphs breakup formatting, humor breaks up the boring factor.