How to Effectively Be Kind to Your Readers?

June 24, 2010 by Chris  
Filed under Blogging

Irrespective of the niche you write for, respecting and being kind to your readers is one of the most effective things that can get you the top of the chart. This is simply because people would love coming back to your blog, if they are treated properly. Here are some tips that can help you become kinder to your readers.

Shorten the Introduction

Starting a blog post with long introduction usually repels people from your blog. They visit your blog to search for specific information. If you give them junk, they would take it once, but would never return back to your blog. Put an introduction only if it’s necessary. Besides, make sure the introduction is not too long.

Focus on Quality not Quantity

Updating your blog regularly is necessary. However, do not let this idea take over your mind, and start controlling your blog. If research takes time, and you are not able to post an article daily, it’s completely fine. Make sure you focus on quality and not on quantity. People dont read your post because you have updated another article. They are interested in what you write, not how much you write.

Even if you are able to write only one good post every week, don’t fret. It’s okay. You can become a successful blogger only if you write quality content, and not how fast you write.

How to Effectively Be Kind to Your Readers

Write Entertaining Articles

I had mentioned this many times in my earlier posts, and I would like to repeat it again. Most people read articles online because they need some information and entertainment. If you write dull posts, they would instantly move to another blogs that provides both. Your readers must love your articles.

Alright, here is an exercise you must do before posting any article on your blog. Write an article, read it from the start, and put as mush entertainment as possible. Sooner or later, when people find out about your posts, and writing style, they would instantly subscribe to your blog.

Write Simple

Do not make it tough for your readers to understand your post. Make sure you use simple language without adding any jargons or complicated words. To keep a blog simple, you must:

  • Use short sentences
  • Not use something (phrase or word) that only few knows
  • Not assume things
  • Not underestimate your readers

The main purpose of writing a post is providing information. If you are able to give it properly and clearly, most readers would love your blog.

Short Posts

People are too busy to go through your ‘essay’ articles even if it has the best piece of information. Alright, there are some topics which cannot be completed within 300 words. But try to keep it short. Instead of writing huge paragraphs, insert bullet points to make it short and precise. Also, highlight the points that you feel are very important. This will help readers to get the message by simply glancing through your blog.

Rejuvenate

This is probably one of the best ways to be kind to your readers. If you are a regular blogger, your writing should get better every month. By this I don’t only mean language or vocabulary. You must learn to be creative, and entertaining. And you can do this by reading, writing, and thinking more often.

Talk to Your Readers

If you get comments on your blogs, make sure you reply them. If there are queries, answer them. If it’s an important point, write an article in your blog for the reader. Do whatever you can to make them feel special. Personal attention is what most readers seek. If you agree to give them, you will get more than your expectation.

There are probably several other ways to be kind to your readers, and you can explore more of them by remembering: Showing kindness to your blog, means being kind to your readers. All they expect is a decent blog, with relevant information.

STOP Being Boring, Be ‘Out of the Ordinary’

April 16, 2010 by Chris  
Filed under Blogging

How can you expect people to visit your blogs if your posts are repetitive, boring, and dull? Don’t you think it’s pretty obvious that visitors wouldn’t stick around your blog if it stinks?

We all know this truth. To be on the top, we need to be interesting. What we don’t know is how to do it. How to actually be interesting? I have done a bit of research by reading my blog as well as others and found out few things that we all, as writers, need to inculcate. Here are few tips to make your content interesting.

  • Be Different:
    We all are striving to adjust ourselves according to the norms set by people decades ago. C’mon writers, it’s your blog, do something different every time. Common is boring.
  • Be Bold:
    We aren’t being bold enough. We have it all in our minds, but we either don’t have the courage to let it out, or we are too concerned about what we write. What’s the harm to spit it all out, even if it is wrong? It’s your blog, you are free to express your perception.
  • Be Witty:
    Humor can be added in all kind of blogs. If you own a spiritual or a financial blog, you don’t have to provide very serious tips all the time. A bit of humor can liven up the atmosphere, and avoid people from dozing off.

how to stop being boring

  • Break the routine:
    We always have a routine, why not surprise people sometimes? You can do this by writing something weird sometimes, or doing opposite of what you usually do. If you can be easily predicted, people would ignore you. It’s not only girls who like surprises, we all do.
  • Provide inner facts:
    By this I don’t mean stock market insider information or something. Most of us provide tips like a teacher does, our blogs are well organized and they are quite instructive. We don’t really explore the real facts. For instance, not is single blogger creates whatever he writes, some posts or some parts of the post is stolen. But we don’t accept it and we never write about it. Write something real, boy.
  • Be very, very honest; be naked:
    If you can do this, you can connect well with your readers. We are all striving to become big, and only truth might help us to reach there. Many of our suggestions are pure lies, sometime we don’t follow what we say. Scribe the truth, everything about how you feel, what you think, what it should have been, and what you are not. Not many can do this.
  • Be crazy:
    If you really want to be noticed, be crazy. Start doing anything and everything. Make fun of people, do something abnormal, write stinky articles about dirty politics, and whatever comes to your mind. Make sure you add a social or a useful message at the end of every article.

That’s it. I guess these tips are enough to make any blog interesting. I would, however, like to search for more things around the web that makes reading ‘out of the ordinary’.

Chuck The Vampire Words Out Of Your Writings!

November 3, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under Writing skills

Using the word vampire here might sound like some comedy going on in TV channels, people relate different words to different things but overall what they are trying to portray remains the same, when we talk about Vampire, it literally means a nasty parasite or a mosquito – the one which is trouble some and pinches you. Talking in general terms, when we don’t like somebody we name him as a vampire, for employees the manager is a vampire for school children teachers might be vampires and so on, there are so many games released with the word vampire, so the word itself gives someone a impression that something is dangerous or may be harmful and gives them the idea to avoid it.

Coming to our main discussion for today, whether vampire sort of words should be used for blogging or no? Looking at my experience for the past 5 years or so, I had advised you not to use as it will drive away your audience rather than attractive or getting traffic to your website. Blogging is a world where you can express your own self and vent out your anger on someone, although blogging is not clearly a tool to throw some anger on someone you can quietly and simply get forward the point you strongly feel about whether its good or bad and that is the main reason why people have blogging lessons, where they learn how to blog, as we know blogging is huge industry and looking the growth of today’s internet users its surely going to be in demand for the next centuries to come and people will still be making good

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money from blogging. Have you ever written some essay, I am sure almost everyone has had this experience in life of writing essay in schools or colleges, did you ever use any kind of rude words or offensive words against someone in an essay, obviously not, some of you might say but directly or indirectly may be not in essays somewhere we tend to use such words which will create a bad impression and there comes downfall of your business empire.

Blogging world invites the people only with a sweet tongue, no matter how much ever you speak wrong of someone, you ought to speak in a particular manner so as to not offend someone, while many bloggers I have met argued as to why they shouldn’t speak out, when its their blog? I would agree to this to the half a extent, you may vent out your anger, use rude words for someone, but its going to do no good to you in future or when you feel you have made some good long lasting relationship with some client or a customer, suddenly the past springs up and you were not waiting for this day after all! Its better to pretend good to someone rather than losing out to him forever and especially when it comes to your blogging business, you ought to be very attentive of the words you use, the type of language you use and the tone at which you speak.

The silent world of blogging can create great uproars as we know the true saying, “Action Speaks Louder than Words”, you shouldn’t speak bad by uttering, show it in action and the rest would follow automatically. Creating examples is no tough job, you can set your examples today by being an idle and with blogging, I would request you all to avoid making use of words which will create parasites, so many parasites that you may get entangles and then it might become difficult for you to come out of that web.