Do You “Stage” Your posts – You Should!
Like it or not, most of us are visual creatures with short attention
spans. With all the posts being generated every day on Active Rain, you want yours to stand out, get noticed and read!
I’ve seen many great posts that were feature worthy not get recognized because they had no graphics, white space in between paragraphs or were a little too long to read with the daily time constraints we have to spend in the Rain.
A blog post should be between 200-500 words to keep people’s attention.
First write out your text, choose what groups you want to post to (you can choose up to five – think of your target audience) and save it to draft. Then go back and add your links and pictures.
Speaking of pictures - always add a picture or two and don’t forget to click the appearance box so your text is smashed up against your picture! How? After you hit the photo icon to download a photo you'll see "Insert/edit image". At the top, right next to the "general" box is an "appearance" box which allows you to add space between your photo and text (I use 6 horizontal and 6 vertical to keep it easy.)
Only after you’ve read, re-read and proofed your post (don’t always trust spell check –if you want to say their but type there, it’s not going to catch it.
Now you are ready to post it to members only or public. Don’t forget to take it out of draft!
Highlight key words and add links to your website or hide links within your photos (just use “add links” using the link icon) when inserting your pictures - more Google juice. If you want your post reblogged, post it to public.
Make sure your title is geographically specific to the area so your readers will find you.
Be sure to check out these Active Rain recourses resources...see what I mean about spell check - lol!
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