Sunday, November 30, 2008

Capture Your Readers With A Tantalizing Web Posting

By Don Bethune

The primary goal of a blog is to persuade your visitors to read the contents. As the internet is flooded with blogs on any topic that anyone can imagine, it is really a hard job to keep the attention of the visitors.

People who read a large number of blog sites have developed different methods to filter so many blog websites asking for their attention. Blog readers have learned to visually scan for hot topics, points or special information that would indicate a blog really is worth their time to read. You must always think how you are are presenting your blog in the very first few seconds in order to make the person pause and read your entire blog. Consider these ways to improve your blog's chances of being read.

Snag the focus of the visitor: Make them curious by creating short paragraphs that have sections text emphasized or set in bold headings. Clearly displaying these sections will provide enough highlights to the reader of the general sense of the entire article. The reader can zoom quickly to the sections of interest and study further your blog article. Keeping each point of your headings clearly displayed and intriguing will draw their interest.

When is the last time you looked for an interesting illustration or photo to go with your blog posting? Even an odd looking illustration will force the reader to pause and ingest this information. Capture their attention with the image, and they may stay to read your blog to learn more.

The Blog laser, bullet points: Condensed ideas listed with bullet points will quickly communicate your thoughts to the blog reader. Zap away the fuzzy text by sending clearly defined short points to the reader. Seeing such lists of concise information will increase your blogs reading time to be increased.

Build the article and then craft the title: It seems obvious but the title really needs to be the distillation of the article. Its much easier to pen the attention getting headline title after you have completed the entire thought of the article and it is still fresh in your mind.

Shake the readers up by being deliberately counter to the normal thought process on a particular subject. Surprise them by fulfilling the title in an unusual way. They can be surprised and pleased by following the unusual plot twists of your blog posting. Educate them by completing the thought of the title with the body of your article.

Engage the reader to take action by posing a question: Readers will help you add content to your blog site if you provide the hook for their input by comments and questions. Add interest to your blog by having others respond to your questions. - 16651

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