5 Brilliant Tips to Create Compelling Content

June 4, 2010 by Chris  
Filed under Writing skills

There are millions of blogs on the web today, and the count is increasing every day. However, have you ever thought, why few blogs are better than the others? Have you ever tried to figure out the essence of such top blogs? I have, and I got some great techniques to create a compelling content. Here are few of them.

1.    Eye-Catching Format

Your post shouldn’t be just a bunch of words jotted together. Don’t make your readers run away from your blog of boredom. Make your article eye-friendly by using bullet points, Sub-Headings, UPPER CASE, bold, italic, and so on. Why would someone read your long, boring article, when similar information is available elsewhere in a systematic, easy-to-read way, probably with nice pictures.

Tips to Create Compelling Content

2.    Use Examples

I don’t like reading technical content after a certain limit. And I guess no one does. Examples make your article entertaining, simple-to-understand, and interesting for the readers. Give them what they want.

3.    News Updates

No, I am not asking you to start a news website, or keep giving your readers every bit of what’s happening out there. However, if possible, put the latest piece of news in-between your post, only if it’s relevant to your post. You cannot talk about Michael Schumacher’s car or Angelina Jolie’s tattoos while discussing historical monuments.

4.    Interviews

People like reading information in Q&A format, especially if it’s an interview. Now, you don’t really have to chase a celebrity for this. You can simply get a person whom your readers would like to listen to.

5.    Motivation

Motivational articles are good to read. However, by this, I don’t mean you must post an entire article on ‘You Can Do It’ or ‘You Are the One’. No. Give them tips about some thing, and motivate them to do it today. Change is probably the most difficult thing to adopt. Tell them how to do it.

Humor is something that I could have suggested to all the readers. However, I have seen several writers trying to create humor in their posts, but they end up messing it all up. Hence, use it, only if you are sure about what it means. Besides, these five tips are enough to make any article compelling.