Writing for blogs can be tricky, but the more natural you can make your writing sound the easier it is for readers.
Many people don’t read every word that you write and they will skim for certain keywords of their own. For this reason a simple format to your writing works best and encourages readers that do read everything, as well as those that skim articles.
Some tips for formatting
- Keep paragraphs short - this enables key themes to stand out and makes for easy re-reading when the reader is looking back for information.
- Break up the content with images - again it makes it easier to re-find content as well as breaking up the reading.
- Put a description in the image so someone who doesn’t read the text still takes away the main point of that paragraph (see the jeep example earlier)
- Add asummary - many people skip to the bottom of the page and this is a way of encouraging them to actually read the content, and at least they still have the main themes of the page.
Finally
- Give readers the option of further reading either
- -through internal links in your text,
- -as further reading lists at the bottom
- -as external links to authority sites.
This provides detailed information to those that want it, but it doesn’t overload those that don’t.
So to summarise all the main points ......
Image edited “Figure Sitting And Reading Book With Idea Bulb” by Master isolated images (freedigitalphotos.net)
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AlejandraB
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Great training, it's always good to learn more about writing!
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DaisyB
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Great training. Good work on the conversational style of writing. One thing about Jeeps. As far as I know, Jeep is a Brand of vehicle by Chrylser (originally Willys), that was very famous for its skill and created for use in WWII. All the other brands are types of off-roading vehicles that have tried to duplicate the traits of the Jeep. Although they try, none of them are called or referred to as jeeps.
I really like your training, and am not trying to offend. The first car my Dad repaired was a 1912 Model T Ford and he did that back in 1914. Since I was born, I was raised with the history of vehicles and the companies that built them. I have never heard an off-roader refer to other vehicles as Jeeps. It has a very interesting history.
For the image tags, you are very correct about Google liking image tags. They also like the key word being used in at least one image tag.
I really like your training, and am not trying to offend. The first car my Dad repaired was a 1912 Model T Ford and he did that back in 1914. Since I was born, I was raised with the history of vehicles and the companies that built them. I have never heard an off-roader refer to other vehicles as Jeeps. It has a very interesting history.
For the image tags, you are very correct about Google liking image tags. They also like the key word being used in at least one image tag.
iainclarke
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Excellent training. I like the way you attribute the graphics to the originator. Do you have any tips on how to do this?