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Writing reader engaging content is one of the prerequisite of blogging. You do every thing in your hand to write great content, content that will keep your blog reader glued to your blog. But how about thinking up the post your audience has been longing? How to write what your blog visitor love to read? or how to determine exactly what kind of posts your subscriber wants to see in their RSS reader?
In this post I’ll be discussing 4 strategies you can use to write what your reader want to read.

Ask Them What They Want:
The easiest way to know what your reader want is to ask them what they want. Ask your readers to submit ideas for posts they’d like to see on your blog. Host a poll every now and then, with topic of your choice. Do this every couple of months and you’ll have a list of ideas you can turn to when you are out of stock with Post idea.

Look for Potential Post Idea in Comments:
Comments are one of the most interesting part of blogging business, your comment counts and quality of comments determines how successful you are and what type of reader you attracts. But the most interesting thing about comments is its ability to provide you never ending flow of good ideas for your blog post. Many A-list blogger believe in these, and that’s why they encourage comments.

Sometimes you reader will ask you to expand on a section of your post. Either he wants more information on a specific point, a more detailed explanation of one of your ideas or a clear explanation of something that’s confused them. Instead of answering it in comment, you can turn your answer in a full-fledged post and use the answer to drive more traffic back to your original article.

Analyze Your Search Engine Traffic:
This is one thing that I do every day (I don’t write every day though). Analyzing search engine traffic can give you wealth of information in them that can be incredibly useful. What questions or phrase are readers typing into search engines to find your blog? What Keywords are sending traffic? Which Long tail string is most relevant to your blog content? All this information can help you know how to optimize your blog for SEO even better and can give hints on what content to write more of.

Web traffic analyzing programs like Woopra and Google Analytic can be really handy here. They give you clear picture about your regular and search engine traffic. But if you want clear view of your search engine traffic then I would suggest you to install Lijit plugin on your blog and signup for 103bees. These two services give you thorough exploration of your search traffic.

Reverse engineer what worked in past:
Look at your blog’s most popular post. You can build on their success by adapting the same format to new content. Let’s say one of your most popular posts was about “How to Optimize your blog for Search engine” you can Capitalize on the success of the first post by creating and update version “How not to Optimize your blog for Search Engine” or “Things to Consider while Optimizing Your Blog for Search Engine”

Another effective strategy is to apply the same post format and headline formula to a new subject. Your list of 21 Most Influential Blogger could be followed by a list of 21 Most Stupid Blog Editors or anything you can imagine (as long as it’s of interest to your target audience).

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“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.“ B. C. Forbes

These words are so true about blogging, like real life there are countless obstacles in your path of blogging success, today we are going to discuss 4 such obstacles of our blogging path, and how to overcome it.

Language, Grammar and Vocabulary:

Problem:

This is very common problem for no English bloggers like me (and countless other). Things become really horrible when I have a lot to say, but don’t have right word to express it. When it comes to writing I have limited vocabulary to explain everything without spoiling my message. This limitation of vocabulary use to frustrate me. before I adopted this new writing method

Solution:

In my early blogging day I use to write my post on Microsoft word, it’s in built spell and grammar checker was like a dream gift for me, but after few posts I realized what I was missing, I had very limited words. This forced me to find way to overcome it. After trying different writing method, I found this little lengthy process of writing, which is also time consuming but very useful for me, instead of writing my post in English now I write it in Hindi or Gujarati and then translate it to English, this gives me batter grip on my content and wide range of vocabulary.

Writing Content:

Problem:

Not every one is gifted like Brain Clark or Skellie who can write 10/20 post every day. Or like Darren Rowse who can write series of posts on any topic, be it RSS Subscription, Blog Promotion or Content writing, we new blogger often stuck in writers block. After posting 15/16 post we often meet the dead end of new idea for our next blog post.

Solution:

Joining the echo chamber of writer is the best way to keep your self occupied while stuck in writers block. Write what every one is writing about with your own thoughts and input about the topic. Shanker bakshi of shankerbakshi.com has great tips for you on how to re-write what every one is writing.

Filler Posts are another good substitute when you are left with nothing to write about, some blogger even uses it to maintain the posting frequency. Muhammad Siyab of puttingblogsfirst.com has some excellent ideas about filler post and how to maintain your post flow with it.

Blog Promotion:

Problem:

One thing that troubles every new blogger (and some relatively old ones) is spreading the word about their blog. Your killer titles and great compelling contents are worthless without proper promotion of your blog. I have seen few blogs great content, but there was no activity. This usually happens when your content doesn’t get enough exposure on social media sites like digg, stumbleupon and delicious

Solution:

The best way to promote your content and give it a quick exposure on social media site is to mail your blogging pals (I hope you have made at least 20 blogger friends now) and ask them to stumble and dig your content. Asking your reader for stumble and digg at the end of your post is another strategy that worked for many blogger.

Link building:

Problem:

Social media exposure is good for initial boost of traffic for your blog, but you need piles of link back from authority blogs within your niche for a regular flow of traffic. Expecting a link back or reference to your post without networking or building relation with other blogger would be optimistic to the point of stupidity. You need to build relation with blogger and those so called A-lister before you can ask for a link back from them.

Solution:

Link out generously: One way to make a real impression on another person is to be generous with them. Showcase their best work on your blog, refer their post and thoughts in your articles.

Start with blogger of your level: Approaching relatively new blogger have more chance of working out. And you can help each other drive significant traffic to your own blog. Offer help and consultation: Helping other blogger and reader of blogs you read often can really help you draw other in relation. When you don’t have solution for the problem point them to useful resources or person who can help them.

This creates a good impression upon both of the parties that you connect. Which will lead them come to you again if they have any confusion or difficulty. And you will become the ‘go to’ person, because they know you’ll either help them personally or point them to someone who can.

Join Webmaster Community: Webmaster community forums such as Authority Blogger and Digital Point can be really useful to start your hunt for potential blogging network. Join the discussion, share your thoughts, contact webmaster, and you will see building blogging network isn’t that difficult.

What Obstacle You Have Faced?
So friends what obstacles you have faced during your journey to blogging success and how you over come it. Share your personal experience with us in comments below.

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Blog post length has been a biggest puzzle for every blogger ever seen Blogging become mainstream, there are wide rang opinion about post length, some will tell you to
stick with longer more informative post while there is a group of publisher who favor shorter post.

These both school of thoughts have their own merits, and today we are going to discuss why.

Lets start with a I-Love-Short-Post- School.
if you ask professors of these school why they insist for short post you will get the usual answer.

Its Scannable and Reader Friendly:
study says only 16% of internet user read content word to word. Rest will only scan it for phrase of sentence that interest them, if they don’t find something that catch their fancy, they will probably leve your blog (not sure about you but Tom Volkar would surely do). with that being said keeping your content short and simple so that your users can scan it quickly becomes vital.

Shorter Attention spans:
People don’t usually spend a lot of time on a blog post, My Woopra stats shows my readers usually spend 1 to 1 and half minute. As stated earlier, they’ll first scan the post and if you manage to grab their attention, they’ll go back from the start and read the whole article. so keep your article shorter to grab your readers attention.

Quantity of post:
One point that many Blog Gurus argue is that short post allow you to write more posts, and that more posts are better for generating readership with RSS and in Search Engines. if your are intending to cover more things in one post, split it in a series of short (300 to 500 word) post.

When your should write the short post:
If you’re going to post on topics that are breaking news like Today’s Bomb Blast In new Delhi , it would be batter to keep it short and to the point with all the necessary information,

A short post has the advantage of being quickly and easily read, , if you’re considering writing short posts, make sure you keep a higher publishing rate. There is no point in publishing 2 paragraphs every week.

Those are some valid points that can convince a blogger to fall in love with short newsy type post,

Lets see what Don Lawson have to say about Longer post

Writing long blog posts is suitable for “opinion blogs”. Reviews, tutorials, editorials and guest posts usually require and tend to be longer and more insightful.

Here are 4 good points by Don in defense Longer post

Since longer posts require more attention and more time to read, it’s indicated that you format your post well by using short paragraphs and subheadings, lists and images to break large blocks of text. Also a good introductory paragraph describing what your post is all about will catching your readers’ attention.

Conclusions:
There’s no golden rule about the perfect blog post length.In the end you need to find your own way on this. Deciding between short and long blog posts is also a matter or personal choice, some people like to publish three four time a day using short post, Blogger like my prefer more resourceful and well documented long post.

So now tell me, what’s your choice when it comes to deciding post length, and which post you prefer to read loooooooooooooooooong or short?

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Ever wonder why some people stick to one blog, why you always see them post their response as soon as the author of that blog hit that cute *Publish Button* ?, or why those avid reader refresh their RSS reader as the cock-crow for updates from their favorite blog?

I am not sure about you but I some time wonder why my favorite writer *Barbara Swafford* have those great peoples gathering on her blog, Why Shilpan Patel get 3 figure diggs and stumbles every time he post a new blog? Or why AL’s blog get tons of comments every time? Or why great bloggers like Darren Rowse Chris Garrett and Liz Strauss are so successful, Whenever I ask all this questions to my self I always get only one answer, *Because their readers Love their blogs*

So when blog readers fall in love with your blog? Well scroll down to know :

Your Blog is a joy ride for your reader:
You make it easy for them to read what you are writing, you post is no longer then it should be, you write in a language that a dumb like me can understand it (even if my first language is not English).

You Welcome comments:
You never forget things that matter, but still you leave space for me to join the conversation, you listen what I say, and take the time to respond to it. You take constructive criticism well, you argue with what has been said, not with who said it

You still believe your readers are human:
Most of us as bloggers forget it from time to time. But you still remember that those who interact with your words are made meat and bones- just like you.

People come to your blog searching for information or an answer to a question, or may seek education, they could be looking for company or even entertainment You Keep the needs of your readers in mind and strive to fulfill them.

You give what you expect from me:
You comment on blog post you find interesting, you make it a point to visit your commentor’s blog, and share your thoughts and view about their blog. you link out generously so you reader get in-depth information of subject you are writing about. You give credit where it’s due, you’re clear about the source of your arguments, facts, links and photographs.

Well friends these are the quality you reader look for before subscribing to your blog, these are the characteristics of engaging blog, many great blogger around the blogshare are admired because of this quality,

So you(my blog reader) what quality you look for before falling in love with any blog? Let me know in comments below.

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The coolest thing about blogging is the social interaction and community that is built when readers leave meaningful comments. But building an engaging community isn’t that easy. It requires lot of hard work and dedication to get those loyal readers who join your community. And participate in your blogs discussion. But thanks to millions of programmer and coders who have made building a community on blog lot easier and convenient, with their great tools and plugins.

Today we are going to discus such plugins and tools that can help you increase comments and create the scenes of community on your blog.

Offer Incentive To Your Commentors:
Incentives work in the blogosphere . Commentors will respond to incentives. Incentives such as dofollow back links and top commentors have worked for many bloggers, it motivate your readers to join the discussion and add their thoughts and feedbacks,

Here are 4 such Incentive plugins:

Lucia’s Linky Love:
Lucia’s Linky Love is a great variation of *Dofollow* plugins, though its main function is to remove *nofollow* tag from author link in comments, it is more then just a Dofollow plugin.

It Gives You Full Control Over Dofollow/Nofollow:
Dofollow blogs happened to be softest target for link spammers and black hate SEO practitioners. But now you can create obstacles for such spammers by increasing number of comments required by commentor before enabling the dofollow option, which means your commentor will need to visit and comment on your blog regularly to get the benefits of dofolow. Which discourage spammers who considers your blog a link farm.

14 days time limit:
Dofollows will not be added to comments left more than 14 days after you published your most recent post. which means if a reader want dofollow link juice he will need to keep update with your blog and comment regularly. This feature can help you get some quick RSS subscribers too.

You can download Lucia’s Linky Love from Big Bucks Blogger. And donforget to read the user feed backs on this great plugin.

CommentLuv:
This gives your commentors additional incentive using CommentLuv, which searches their RSS feed and adds a link to their last blog post in their comment. This gives your commentor a keyword reach anchore link to their blog, its like icing on cake.

Download Commentluv from FiddyP.

KeywordLuv:
You must have seen comments with fancy keywords instead of real name of the commentor. This is because they are trying to get keyword rich links back to their blogs. Keywordluv makes things easier for your commentor. Just add your name as YourName@Your Keywords and Your Keywords will be used as the anchor link and your name will be shown separately. If I enter Sunil@Blogger’s Lab in comment form instead of Sunil Blogger’s Lab, then the title of a comment would look like

Sunil From Blogger’s Lab

Instead of

Sunil Blogger’s Lab

Neat isn’t it?

Download KeywordLuv from More Than Scratch The Surface

Top Commentor Widget:
Thanks to lists like Yan’s *Blogs with Google Pagerank and Top Commentor widget*. Top Commentor has become huge hit among blog reader who wants to get some link juice. This cute little widget adds a list of top commentators to your sidebar. Which is Dofollow (you can make it Nofollow if you want) and it appears on every page of your blog (you can restrict it to your home page if you want)

Get Top Commentors widget plugin from Webgrrrl.net

Note: if your blog is brand new then wait until your posts generate decent number of comment, before you feature Top Commnetors Widget on your sidebar.

Those are 4 great plugins I have been using since long time, and I am pretty satisfied with the out come of those plugins.

Now lets check some more plugins which wont hurt your community if you don’t install them. But it can do wonder if your install them.

Subscribe to Comments:
It adds a “Notify me of followup comments via email” check box below the submit comment button. This is a great feature as users can keep track of comments, when a new comment is made to the post, an email is sent to the subscriber notifying them. This is much better then having your blog reader subscribes to your comment RSS.

Get Subscribe to Comments 2.1 from Tempus Fugit

Brian’s Threaded Comments:
This plugin adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. When you use the reply link, your comment is placed directly under the comment you replied to. This plugin helps increase comments, makes it easy for people to reply to comments and prevents readers from scrolling down to look for answers to their questions.

Download Brian’s Threaded Comments from Meidell.dk

Make Your Comment Area Alive With 4Avatar:
4Avatars is a simple Plugin for WordPress that allows you to add avatars to comments on your blog. Avatars are from MyBlogLog or Gravatar (globally recognised avatars) or even from Polish site Avatars. Of curse avatars are NOT saved on your ftp!

4Avatars have very simple options page which allows you to choose site with avatars and choose default avatar which will be shown when author of comment doesn’t have any.

Download 4Avatars Plugin from Wordpress.org

Let Your Reader Share Their Favorite Post From Your Blog with Share This:
The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple to use, and unobtrusive way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send your post link via email, AIM, Facebook, MySpace and more.

Get Share This Plugin From Sharethis.com

So friends those are the 8 plugins I use on my blog to encourage comments and participation on my blog. If you have more suggestions for great community building WordPress plugins? Please share your Favorites in the comments.

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We have discussed many blogging tactics and strategy for driving traffic and increasing Feed Subscriber, but have you ever analyzed your blog? Did you ever checked if your blog deserve those avid readers? NO! Then check it now . your blog sucks or your blog rocks?

Copied content: You have nothing new or original. Your blog is a parasite that survives on content leeched from other’s blog. I want to read a blogger not a scrapper. You really need to learn How To Write Great Content That Your Reader Can’t Ignore.

Your Mom Is Your Only Reader: Your blog probably sucks when you have only 2/3 responses on your blog and those few peoples are your mom, dad or your best friend. Stop day dreaming kid, wake up and do some work. Promote your blog and Find New Readers for Your Blog

Jack Of All Trades, Master of None: Even though you been blogging since ages you don’t have any authority over any particular topic or niche. Your post sounds more like a company annual report rather then an expert’s analysis. Ask Alan How to Write Compelling Articles.

You Don’t Respect My View: you are unappreciative idiot who have no respect for his reader’s view, all you want to hear is pleasing words, and you have not guts to accept the criticism. Darren tells you Why You Should Respond to Comments On Your Blog

Your Ad Space Out Numbered Your Blog Post: Your Blog is littered with Ads and Affiliates Links. 6 out of 10 posts on your blog are paid review. You are always looking for opportunity for making quick money. You need to understand What Turns Of Your Reader

Too Many Barriers To Read Your Blog Post: I have struggle with Pop-up, Pop-under before I can read your content, and what those peel away banner is there at the corner, why you are creating so many obstacles for me? Have you ever heard about User Friendly Blog?

Hazardous Navigation: I can’t figure out how to move through your blog, there is no way I can find your old work, all I can see on your sidebar is Private ad banners and affiliate links. You should have saved some space for Popular post or Blog Archieve

Widget Jungle: I know you are active on many communities and micro blogging sites. But I am not interested in what you are doing on Twiter or Plurk , or how many Blogcatalog or Mybloglog users are visiting your blog. If you want me to subscribe to your RSS feed, then show me some real content.

So Friends those are the 7 characteristics of disappointing blogs i would like to know what are # 8,9 and 10

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We all know that starting a new blog from scratch isn’t an easy task. But those who’s been blogging long enough, will tell you maintaining your posting rate and visitor count is even harder. This is possibly because you’ve limited yourself to a few promotion campaigns and reached your limit.

The most obvious way to get rid of this obstacle is to bring new readers to your blog. Yeah I know some of you will say “Its easier said then done mate” I agree with that, but as I always say little efforts can make lots of difference. So friends here is one more delicious recipe for you and your blog.

Write a Killer title:
A good title alone can encourage a visitor to read your whole article, unless the title drives the audience in, the rest of your words may as well be an exercise in uselessness.

With so many post and link all over the blogsphere a good post title will definitely make readers click and choose your blog post to read, This is especially important with traffic from social bookmarks, such as digg or del.icio.us.

Write unique and original:
I am sorry for reminding this one more time, but Unique content is core element of successful blog. And those who understood this have seen new people crowding their blog in on all directions, through word of mouth, linkage, bookmarks etc.

Comment on Other’s Blogs:
Yes I know I have said this a thousand times on my blog (and trust me you will hear this countless time again), but commenting on Blogs is the simplest way of getting new readers and attention of bloggers in your niche. And while commenting, make sure your are actually adding to the discussion and not simple promoting your self. “Hi mate great post” or “I like it very nice “kind of comments wont make people click through your link, make sure you make your comments count.

Optimize Your Blog For SEO:
You understandably write great content that your readers love but you need search engines (unless you are Darren Rowse who being chased by his psychopathic fans) to get those readers to your blog. With thousands & millions of web pages and blog posts battling to be found on the search engine result pages. It’s very crucial that your post appears on the first (or at least 1st few) page of the search engine results, for the keywords of your choice.

Read more about Search Engine optimization here:
How to make your Blog SEO friendly

Blog post on like blog:
Guest blogging is really a great way to drive targeted new traffic to your blog, as there are so many benefits to gain from it, although a lot of people kind of stay away from it, because they hate the idea of writing content for somebody else, but if you analyze the potential advantages, thing would be a lot different. To make it really big you have to land a post on a really popular blog with few thousand RSS subscriber, but the more popular a blog is, the harder it is to have an article posted. But like every thing its not impossible to happen.

How to ask for guest post:
Introduce yourself. In a few words say who you are, where you blog at and politely ask the blogger if it’s possible for him to have a look at an article you’ve written. That you’d like to be guest posted on his blog.

Popular bloggers get hundreds of guest post request every day, so it’s better not to waste his time with pleasantries. Come to the point in 1st paragraph.

And the most important one
The article you’ve written for guest posting has to be very well written and relevant, not only for it to get accepted, but for it to stand out among the blogger’s readers.

Link Bait:
Link Baiting means to create content that creates buzz about your blog and naturally attract backlinks post, Link Baiting is getting people to talk about you, discussing your post on forums, blogging about it, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. Which results in great spike in daily traffic?

Now that you know the benefits of link baiting, you might think how can you create resources that are link worthy and bait-able? The answer is bellow

4 Link Baiting Ideas That Works Like A Charm
3 More link Baiting Strategies

Just Be Patience:
Building traffic and a popular blog takes times, even though you’ll hit a growth hunch keep on writing great contents and promoting your blog religiously. It’ll eventually pass one way or the other,

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We all want to be read by more and more people, get plenty of comments, and have a huge blog with 5 figure subscribers. We try many things to achieve it. But some times we do things that can really turn a reader away very quickly. So let’s take a look at things that stops your readers from returning to your site.

Too Early Monetization:
I don’t care if a site has a couple ads trying to make some money, but if your page is messed with more ads then content, then don’t expect your readers to stick around for very long. I am not saying you are not allowed to make money with your blog. Or you can’t have ads on your pages. Just don’t let them get in the way of your content and buttons.

While not monetizing your blog might lose you a few dollars a day, but the advantage are far more then those few dollars.

It place stronger emphasis on your content. Which determines the size of your reader base. More room for your content, you can use those advertise space to display your best work, social widgets and other materials. Increase your chance for getting incoming links. Bloggers are less interested to link to a website that’s plastered with ads and all types of junk.

Not Responding/Respecting Commenter:
Your reader is taking the time out of his already busy schedule to leave his thoughts on your blog. The least you can do is to say thank you. Accept criticism if your reader have different view then yours don’t come down on them too hard, you can argue with what has been said but don’t argue with who said it.

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The nastiest comments to reply are the ones that pick out mistakes or question your authority on topic in subject. And the bad way to deal with it is to not reply. The worst way to deal with it would be to delete the comment; it is the height of rudeness, don’t do it accept your mistakes and move on. We all make them from time to time.

Bad Navigation:
One thing that turns of many blog readers is bad navigation of blog, it really drives me crazy when I cant move through to find what I want, I want stay more then a minute when it drives me crazy.

The most important rule of designing a good website is to make it easy to navigate for your users to find what they are looking for. Any page on your site should be reachable with 2 clicks from your home page. For larger site it isn’t easy but offering a sitemap and site wide search can work great.

Bad Writing and Formatting:
Content is king but if your king is in bad attire then your reader want like it, Bad formatting, tiny font, messy color combination and long paragraphs and non-scan friendly content are really painful for my eyes.

No one is perfect, your reader understands that, but a little effort can make lots of difference

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Today I have learned the biggest lesson of my life, but before I share that lesson with you let me tell you what thought me that lesson.

Today morning I was doing some experiments with my blog setting (you know general curiosity). So I was playing in my admin panel. I did some successful tweaks in my blog setting which filled over confidence in me (you know what people do in over confidence?). I did the same, I over looked my dear friend MD’ s warning (he forbids me from disclosing his true identity as he is owner of a many sites) not to mess with things that I don’t know. So as I said, I over did some tweaks without realizing what I am doing and how it will affect my blog, and I paid grave price for it.

What I was doing in admin panel?:

I was installing wp-stats plugin which like akismet requires wordpress API key, but even after trying 3 different API keys I was getting this error.

Error from last API Key attempt:
The owner of that API Key (bloggerslab) is not on the access list for this blog (4170955).
To be added to the access list, you must contact support.

So I thought maybe adding my free wordpress url in WordPress address (URL) field(check the image) in general setting will solve the problem, but instead of sorting my problem I made the biggest goof of my life.

I screwed my own blog:

As soon as I inserted my free wordpress blog url and hit the save setting button. I have spoiled my blog and all databases, after this I was not able to login into my control panel so that I can undo my mistake (it was too late to do that). My whole blog was messed, my themes, my plugins everything. It looked like a e-mail page rather than a wordpress blog (I should have take the screenshot to show you guys).

Thanks to Wordpress Database plugin:
But thanks to great Wordpress database plugin which saved my neck. I have taken back-up of my whole database last night so it was a relief to me, but I lost 1 new post (which i published again few minutes back) and 6 precious comments and replies off my readers (I hope they will forgive me and will repost their response).

Many thanks to MD:
Well MD is a wordpress, IPB & vBulletin pro, and a dear friend of mine; he helped me restore my blog to how you see it now. My blog wouldn’t have been as it is now if MD hasn’t helped me.

So friends the moral of the story is don’t mess with technical things if you don’t have friend like MD, and back-up of your database.

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This article explains how to write great content, rather than just filling your blog with words and sentence, or review of your affiliate. This is very common on make money online blogs now day.

So what makes a great content, what are the characteristic of “Magnetic contents” that your readers can’t resist?

Killer Title:
The title decides fat of your blog post, how it’s found in search engine and social bookmarking site. It has that ability to turn a casual browser into a reader. A great headline can also convey a full message to its intended audience, and it absolutely must tempt the reader into your body text.

Original and unique content:
People are drawn to others who speak their mind, and who say it in unique and fresh way. Say what every one is saying in a way every one is saying and, I guarantee you readers will ignore you completely.

Easy to read and digest:
We have discussed this point briefly in my Scannable content post, so I won’t say about it again, but Simple words, short sentences, short paragraphs, clean layout and lots of sub-headings. Can do lot of difference to your post.

Give your reader their 5 minutes of fame:
Your reader’s is the best spice for great content recipe, Mention them, and include their quotes, opinions and thoughts about subject you are working on. Let them know you really care and respect their thoughts and opinion.

Use Good relative image:
Image enhances post in many ways. It grabs attention of your reader, gives posts a visual point of interest, it gives your post more personal touch and they adds another dimension to your post.

Read other’s Blog
This might sound weird to you but you can learn a lot simply by reading others work. Examine their layouts and formatting, what voice they use on their blog, and what level of vocabulary are employed in their post, all this things can be learned only buy reading other blog. And this will give you chance to socialize with other like minded people which is very important for your blogs growth.

That was my recipe for Great blog content in a nutshell but there are many other things that you can do to write quality content for your blog. We will discuss those in other post. Right know I want to know how your write your great contents. And what are your ingredients for great magnetic content?

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