Posted on October, 22 2008, under Blogging by Ikki | 9 comment(s)
How To Make your Blog more less Appealing to your Readers is a 3-part series on making your blog more appealing to your readers. Part I details how to reinforce trust with your readers. Part II covers usability principles for your blog and why you should worry about them. Part III is a summary of the series with final thoughts and responses to your comments and questions.
Previously, we discussed on the importance of mantaining your readership’s trust and the need of making your blog user-friendly.
Is this all it takes to make your blog popular? It surely isn’t, there are other aspect that need to be taken into account to succeed as a blogger - such as selecting the right niche -you can’t blog about something you don’t like / know / care-, targeting the right audience, and marketing / promoting your site to others.
Trust and Usability are, certainly, essential. It doesn’t matter how much you promote your site or how well written your posts are. If people can’t rely on you, then why would they support you? Also, if they can’t understand how your site works, will they stay and try to figure it out? I don’t think so.
What do you think?
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[...] readers. Part II covers usability principles for your blog and why you should worry about them. Part III is a summary of the series with final thoughts and responses to your comments and [...]
Well, the part you skipped in your series is the promotion.
Opening a new website is like opening a mall in the middle of Sahara. The real estate is real cheap, but you’ll need to do one keckuva job to attract customers.
Regards, George
@George Cozma: I’ll cover Promotion in a new post because it’s a very complex topic and deserves its own entry (another series, maybe?). It is, IMO, one of the hardest tasks for every site owner on the web. Generally, a new website is like a needle in a haystack - our job is to help people find it.
Thanks for the idea
I loved this series Hector
Keep it up!
Hope to see more like these
A few lesser known promotion tips would be great
I have a few here http://www.letssermo.com/?p=22
@Farrhad: there will be so stay tuned
Thanks for the link, I’ll take a look into it later and maybe include it as a reference on my next post.
Cheers!
So it’s ending today
But on a positive note, the last article of the serious was awesome!
I agree that if people have a hard time finding stuff on your site, they might be tempted to leave it. but if they’re finding the website really useful & the content well written, they’ll struggle around somewhat, at least I would.
Haven’t seen any well written post on the blogs I visit for the last 1-2 months. Boring readings everywhere
- Swastik -
@Swastik: it had to end someday, Swastik
Oh, about those boring blogs you mentioned… I hope mine isn’t one of them
This is a great way to end the series, Ikki.
Yeah, i think promotion is a very complex topic, so leave that to another series.
On Farrhad’s link page i saw your blog.
Its a lovely article