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Your Post : To Break or Not To Break

Breaking postOne of my favourite features with Wordpress blog posting is the “More” tag. What this essentially does is to allow you to break your post into two. The first part would be visible from the Index / Home site whilst the full post (first and second part) would be visible once the reader clicks on the “Read more” link which appears at the place where you place the “More” tag break in your blog editor. In this post, I will discuss why one should break or not break a post into two parts and how one can easily customise the “Read more” phrase.

 

At the risk of sounding patronising but strictly for the benefit of those who really don’t know what I am talking about, the “More” tag is located on the Wordpress post editor and it looks like this More tag . You simply click on it when you want your post to be broken into two parts. Alternatively, you can type (Alt+Shift+t). Browse around this blog and you will find that I use the “More” tag frequently for my posts to break them up.

 

Why break the post? Breaking a post into two parts can be beneficial to your readers. A lengthy post after another may not be your reader’s cup of tea when they visit your blog’s home page.

 

Breaking a post into two allows your reader to decide whether they wish to read further on your post. Hence, keep the important introduction at the upper part of the post to give your readers an insight into what is in store for them and allow them to choose whether to read further or to scan your other posts. Read on »

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. 24 Mar 08 | About Writing | Comments (7)

Slow and Steady Blogging

Slow and SteadyMany of you have read about how a blogger needs to keep churning out posts frequently so as to explode their traffic and increase readership count. You read tips like “Publish a post everyday” or “Write frequently to make them return often” and happily accepted and followed them with the hope that you will become the next problogger. More often that not, you or the other newbie or not so newbie blogger get frustrated or dejected when the statistics of your blog’s traffic or readership feed subscription does not look as impressive as how some of these probloggers have achieved. Actually, not all tips work for everyone except probably this - slow and steady blogging is a proven way.

 

More Time To Think and Plan

Blogging at a slower pace (which I would mean not more than 2 or 3 posts a week) gives you more time to think and plan your blog postings. It gives you room to write a quality blog post which would provide value and attachment to your readers. You would be able to space out your blog posts so that they are consistent.

 

More Time to Explore and Craft An Outstanding Post

It gives you time to explore other blogs or scour the net for information and get more ideas to craft that quality post. Many bloggers who reported success with their successful and timeless posts recounted on how they invested numerous hours to research and write those posts. If you were to write a post on the 100 most beautiful wordpress themes or 50 delicious chicken recipes, you will definitely need to spend a lot of time reading. Read on »

. 26 Feb 08 | About Blogging, About Traffic, About Writing | Comments (3)

It Does Not Matter When You Post

Enter to publishSome bloggers recommend that the best time to publish a blog post is on Monday or Tuesday, supposedly because that’s when most people check out blogs after a weekend away. True perhaps because from my own experience, traffic seems to be at its highest on Monday - Tuesday and slowly tapers off towards the weekend. The number of feed subscribers also seem to follow the same pattern. Notwithstanding what these bloggers recommend, I would like to offer an alternative view that it does not matter when you post. Post any time and any day that you like.

 

Contents

People are attracted by what’s written in a blog. When you have brought about a reputation as someone who writes useful and helpful posts or entertaining stuffs, your readers will still come back to your blog regardless which day you publish your post. Create a hunger in them and they will keep coming back. Some loyal readers return daily or frequently in a week to see if something is new. It does not affect these readers the time and day of the week that you publish your post.

 

Search Engine

If your blog targets readers from the search engines (all you bloggers who care about SEO would know what I mean), you should concentrate more on the right kind of words and phrases to publish than the time and day to publish your post. I still get incoming traffic from search engines to my blogs daily despite not publishing anything new. One good example would be my food blog at Delicious Asian Food which ranks highly on for some recipes and gets a decent amount of traffic from search engines daily, even on weekends! Read on »

. 08 Feb 08 | About Traffic, About Writing | Comments (3)

Article Banks - A Rich Source of Topics and Ideas

Article BankFor those who know me long enough, I author a few blogs ranging from cooking, travel to legal and financial matters. One of the benefits of having multiple blogs across different niches is that I would always have something to write about. Even so, there could be times when the inspiration seems to elude me for that day or week. When I am stuck on that, one of the places I go to for inspiration would be article banks.

 

 

Why Article Banks?

Many bloggers submit articles to article banks or directories for varied reasons. This could range from getting noticed as a writer with authority to creating links to the author’s site. There are literally tens (or hundreds?) of sites containing articles and thousands of articles submitted. You can never run out of articles to get inspiration from.

 

Ease of Search

Since I write a blog related to financial and legal matters, searching for articles which are relevant to my blog’s topics would be easier as these sites are properly indexed and search friendly. You can go to its sub-directories to look for articles which are relevant without having to spend time going from blog to blog or digging through forum questions. Read on »

. 31 Jan 08 | About Tips, About Writing | Comments (5)

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