What kind of posts do readers want to read on your website or blog?

byJoyceKLeahy

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Updated 9 years ago

I have been asked a few times about blog posts and what makes a good blog post.

For me, when I write a post, it has to be short, clear and beautiful (with images). In my view, not too many readers spend time reading long online articles. I like to write about what I know. If I don't know much about a subject I want to write about, I would research it.

I have blogged for almost two years on my blog, tribalmystic dot me. I wrote long posts when I first began blogging. I realised that not many people read these posts. Today, I use both long and short articles. I choose the subject I know. I try really hard to keep it short and simple. This is because I like writing and storytelling and sometime I go overboard.

If I feel exhausted writing the article, I know the readers will be exhausted reading it. I am trying to write the same way for my WA website: webearner.net which I built here on WA.

I find that the most popular posts I write are the posts of less than 300 words and have lots of beautiful and interesting images. I also try to add an attention grabbing headline. This post is getting too long so I will stop it now.

In summary, my suggestions for a blog post/article for your website are:

• Choose a subject you know. (Or research very well and add links)
• Make an outline of what you want to say
• Write 300 words or less, if not, break up your post into two or three posts.
• Add a great headline or title
• Use a lot of good images
• Check your overall structure, facts, spelling, typos etc before you publish. I always try to edit as many times as I can because English is my 4th language. I make mistakes.
• Ask for feedback once you have posted

Have fun writing your blogs posts.

For those who want free images - click on the links check out pixabay. The above images are from there.