Improve your blog
Here’s a quick fire list of my top 10 things to help you improve your blog. Some of can also be applied to general websites:
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- Post regularly at a certain day and time
Helps people follow you more. - Choose a writing style and stick to it
First person, informal works best for personal blogs. - Get organised: tag and categorise your content properly
Enables your readers to browse information they are interested in more easily. - Let social networking sites know of new posts
Easily ping services like Twitter.com and Technorati, or even Facebook to gain readers. - Stay on topic
Write a post about one thing, not many. Otherwise it may lead to confusion and disillusion. - Don’t rant or flame
Personal opinions are great, but better kept in a small circle of people that know and appreciate them. - Be readable
Keep your blog clean and easily read. Make those “sidebar widgets” and links relevant to the content. - Encourage people to comment but don’t force them
Ask open questions and write well. - Write good, concise posts
Rather than writing a lot but not well, concentrate on writing a really good post instead. Also, don’t make posts too long. A lot of people don’t read but skim content. - Make your blog available to everyone
Mobile devices (i.e. PDAs, iPhone,etc) are used a lot these days, gain more followers by enabling them to read on the move. Also,
