Friday, August 8, 2008

How To Create An Interesting Blog

By Stuart M. Gray


Blogs have become the new way of capturing target audiences online and most people use blogs to attract lots of web traffic to their websites. Many personal sites are now produced in blog format too. Easily configurable blogging applications such as WordPress and BlogIt have made a phenomenal climb up in the online world and and keep drawing hundreds of bloggers each day. Millions of bloggers are marking their existence on the web all the time and with so many blogs, it's not really a surprise that we can't easily find and interesting blog.

Sadly, once they've created a blog, the majority of bloggers simply put it aside to take care of other more pressing matters in their daily lives. The once important need to tell the world about what they think goes away and the blog post content just gets too old to interest anyone. Keeping your blog interesting takes some effort and presenting the content creatively will definitely give an extra edge.

The basics of maintaining an interesting blog include two methods, which will keep the visitors coming back for more. Initially, you must find a topic that interests not only you, but general readers as well. A common interest topic will always fare better online.

Blogging is for bringing up interesting topics for discussion and not for keeping things dull and routine. It's about broadening your post topics and getting more people involved in commenting and discussing. When you find something interesting, never pause before blogging about it.

If you intend to attract many visitors to your blog, it's compulsory to talk about something interesting to the global community. But, politics, religion, controversial sciences and racism are best avoided in a personal or business blog, because the aim is to share opinions and ideas with empathy and without discrimination. Updating your blog at specific, set periods is also a wise thing to do, because new content attracts more visitors too.

The second principle of blogging is finding links. Instead of writing lengthy posts about what you think will be interesting, simply search for interesting topics, stories and articles on the web and link to them through your blog.

Use your blog posting space to talk about why a visitor should check it out and what they can get from visiting that specific link. The trick here is to get the visitors and direct them to another place to read interesting content, while achieving your goal of bringing in traffic as well as keeping the blog interesting.

Producing the best blog or locating it in the huge internet world is quite a daunting task. Not surprisingly, you will run out of interesting topics, so the trick is to keep your eyes open for breaking news and stories to make your blog interesting.

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