My Guide for Blogging Success…The “Not to Do” List
My Guide for Blogging Success…The “Not to Do” List
For my entry into this month’s December 2022 Challenge-A Guide for Blogging Success hosted by Jeff Dowler, CRS and Brian England, I decided to begin with what I would put on my “Not to Do” list.
Depending upon who you talk to the list could be long…very long but I decided to pick the things I think are important, no matter what direction you want your blog to take.
These are things that cause me to move on or never return.
The Wall of Words
With YouTube, videos, and audiobooks so popular, actually reading something often takes a back seat for consumers. The last thing people want to see when they click on your blog is a wall of words…even if you include a Feature Photo.
Bob Stewart in his ActiveRain webinars on blogging encouraged us to include white space in our blogs…space around photos, space between paragraphs…a place to rest our eyes while we read.
Insert photos or clip art to help break up the words and enhance the subject of your blog. Make sure that the photos you use are your own or ones you have permission to use. Need some help with photos? Craig Daniels wrote an excellent tutorial for us.
By the way…here’s a link to an early post of mine that is not quite but almost a total wall of words. Not very inviting.
The “Link to…” Only Blog
Ok, this is a personal pet peeve of mine, but if I take the time to go to your blog, I would rather read something other than “Here’s the link to ‘Whatever the topic is.’
At the very least, give us a paragraph of why we would benefit from going to the link and what it is about. Show us that you took the time other than throw a link up.
There are many other items on the “Not to Do” list, such as copying someone else’s post or font that is way too small to read, but that may be for another post.
The thing to remember is that whatever you write…it is always YOUR blog… YOUR choice of what you want to write… who YOUR target audience is, and how you want YOUR blog to look.
Kathy Streib
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