How to Make Your Blog Interesting to Readers?
- Use Examples
- Use Images
- Be You
- Stay away from the “Wall Of Text”
- Topic focus
- Audience focus
- Use Statistics
- Write About Specific Problems and Challenges
- Ads placement
- Lively content
Have you been spending a lot of time and effort on your blog but never get the amount of traffic that you feel it should? Perhaps your blog is not interesting to your blog readers.
For many people, blogging is not easy. It involves a lot of work starting from getting new ideas, doing topic research, writing your blog posts, promoting your blog, integrating with your audience and etc.
Blogging takes time and require a lot of patience, a good strategy, preseverence and consistency in your writing.
You’re creating posts for your blog audience to read. So it’s important to make sure your blog is interesting and appealing to your readers.
You should win their trust and loyalty, make them keep coming back for more. Ultimately, you would like them to be the your customers.
There are a lot of reason that makes you blog not interesting. Some of this reasons are often overlooked.
How Should You Make Your Blog Interesting to Readers?
Here are 10 easy ways where you’re able to improve your blog’s interest without having to start from scratch.
Use examples
Giving examples in your blog posts are a great way to explain something. It gives a clearer picture to your readers what you’re trying to say.
Adding great examples into your writing makes you blog post more appealing. This is especially useful when you’re writing a how-to blog post.
For example, if you’re writing blog post about newborn baby care, you can actually offer real life stories of exactly how people overcome challenges when they’re taking care of their newborn baby.
Use Images
Images can help to break down all the text is your blog post. Including the right images will makes your blog more interesting and alive.
There are many place where you can find great stock photography for free or get it at a very low price. You can even actually take your own pictures if you’d like.
However the point here is to add interest and color into your blog. Make sure you choose on images that are related to your blog content.
Great images which are interesting, pretty, or funny are generally the best to capture readers’ interest.
Be Yourself
Did you know that by adding your own personality into your writing makes your blog post more interesting?
When you read an article like that, you’ll get a feel that you’re getting to know the writer, or, at least, a tiny look into the the their life.
It’s not easy to write a post with personality when ou’re not an experienced writer. It’s even harder to mix your own peronality into a “how-to” blog post, or one that’s focused on an industry specific subject.
But writing in your own “voice” can make a big difference compared to a dull post which readers quickly scanned and forgotten. It makes your blog post interesting to read, and readers will remember you.
Don’t hesitate to be personable, just as long as you’re keeping a quality of professionalism, that’ll be fine.
Stay Away from the “Wall Of Text”
To make your blog post interesting, avoid writing your post in a full whole piece of big paragraph without any white space.
People read a blog differently from how they read a book. Websites (including blog posts) seem being scanned.
Most people are searching for content that gives them the best value. You need to make sure your content can be found easily and quickly by your readers.
Long paragraphs can be quite overwhelming to read on a computer, and even harder on mobile devices.
So, it’s best that you keep your blog post broken up into small paragraph, with section headings and also bullet points to break up your content.
Topic Focus
A blog with a variety range of interest and topics can get lost in the crowd.
Yes, it may sounds great to many interests and knowledge, but if your blog isn’t focused on a particular topic, you’re going to lose your readers.
Not every readers are keen on everything. You need to make sure that you’re not writing blog post to please everyone.
Be focused on a specific topic and readers. A blog that is on a particular topic will bring in readers with the same interest and targeted traffic to your site.
Audience Focus
It’s important for you to identify who is your blog target audience. Without knowing who’s your target audience, you’re just simply wasting time and blogging without direction.
Earlier, you’ve already chosen a topic for your blog. Now, try to think who are you going to write this blog for.
You need to know who are your readers. Find out what are the things they’re interested to read from you. Set your sights on a particular group of audience and target at them.
Use Statistics
Statistic might sound boring, right?
Well, yeah, they might be boring, but if it’s been use correctly on a related content, they’re able to add value and interest to your blog post.
The point is, statistics can be interesting for some readers, and it gives you the credibility to the topic you’re writing.
Write About Specific Problems and Challenges
People landed on your blog because they are searching for some information. If you have the answers and soutions, they’ll be very interested to read on further.
As a good blogger, you’ll need to listen to your audience problems and the challenges they’re facing. Sometimes, their problems might gives you a great ideas for your next blog posts.
From the problems they’re facing, it clearly shows you the sign that’s what they’re interested to read, looking for answers, and solution to solve their problems.
Ads Placement
I noticed that one of the major problems that makes readers to rejects good blogs are ad placement.
No matter how interesting and how great your content is, ad placement must not be overdone and distracting to your readers.
Yes, we are all aware that you wish to make money from your blog. However advertisements must be a seamless section of the blog of yours rather than a billboard covering it up.
Flashing banners, pop up advertisements, float over ads well as other kinds of ads is actually annoying and it makes readers left.
You should place your ads in a manner that they blend with your blog layout and makes your readers to naturally accepts them together with the content flow.
Lively Content
Ask yourself this. Are your blog post helpful? Funny? Persuasive? Insightful?
Write your blog posts and make it something your audience will find it interesting and love to read for pleasure.
It may be very competitive these days, so you’ll need to make your blog stand out with great content in a different and new ways writing.
Maybe you can be sarcastic, maybe you can be motivational and etc. Whatever your writing skill is make it a signature of your blog.
Conclusion
So, I’ve given you 10 way to make your blog interesting to your readers.
Making your blog post more interesting to your to readers doesn’t need to be time consuming or difficult.
You should always make sure that your blog looks good, effective and your content flows is smooth.
It may need some experience to write an interesting and content packed blog posts. My advise to you is to use the above tips in your blog posts and sharpen your writing skills.
So, what are the things that grab your interest (or annoying you) when reading through a blog post? Let me to know in the comments below. I would like to know your thoughts.