Blogs are like Magazines

Blogs are like Magazines 

You can have good writing posts and blogs that really attract big audiences.

Blogs are newspapers and magazines,and therefore they should be treated with a publisher  writer and editor point of vue.

Take a mag that deals with the same subject of your blog and study it ,analyze it and make your blog looks like it. It is the only way to get a well established blog that people will like to return to and get information and entertainment from 

Following the rules of  the written press, is the best way to get readers for your blog.

Here are the best 9 tips I use to write my blogs.

1- Links

2- Paragraphs

3- Headlines

4- Lists

5- Sub headers

6- Style

7- Keywords

8- Advertisings           

9- Pictures

 

1. Link,link,link.

Support your post with links to other web pages that are contextual to your post. In the press these links could be ads or shops, books and links to other articles or pages etc... On the web these links must be well established blogs or sites dealing with the subject.

2. 300 is enough = Paragraphs

 
A short post is more informative. Think about the articles in a mag: if you want to put a long article you just divide it to paragraphs with subtitles and even new headlines.

3. Make Headlines keywords that will strike on search engines and web search

When you pass a mag booth  or a bookshop you see the titles instantly and you can choose your best mag directly.On the web it is the same: the title is the first thing the web search will show you. And this is the portal for your web traffic.
Contain your whole argument in your headline. Check out newspapers to see how they do it.

4. Include bullet point lists

We all love lists, it structures the info in an easily  format. Women and cuisine mags always put their results and receipes in lists with bullets. it is the only way to remember a structured how to.

5. Make your posts easy to scan by making more sub headers = make more sub heading= more scans

Every few paragraphs insert a sub heading. Make sentences and headlines short and to the point. Headlines shouldn't have "the" or "a" at the begining and must be short example: BLOGS FOR MONEY and not THE BLOGS FOR MAKING MONEY

6. Have a style with your headings and be consistent with your style in the article, and threw all the posts of the blog.

People like to discover a style when reading and therefore , what to expect from this style.Once you have settled on a style for your audience, AND YOU SEE THAT THIS IS GETTING YOU VISITORS AND SUPPORT, stick to it.

7. Keywords the posts.

Think about what keywords people would use to search for your post and include them in the body text and headers. make sure the keyword placement is natural and does not seem out of place. One Tool for effective Keywords is Google Adwords Tools like Traffic Estimator or Keyword Tool.

8 . Advertising on your blog

Putting Ads on your blog is one of the best ways to prove that you are a publisher and that your blog is informative and at the same time well ranked for advertisers to use it as publishing platform.

9. Pictures like to make it more interesting

Pictures are a must for publishing news papers and mags. You are not writing a book but articles so the blog must be enhanced with fotos to make it colorful and attractive

So blogs are like magazines : they rely on articles

All articles in  newspaper and mags are made to attract readers, therefore all articles contain keywords taken from real life that people like to refer to. Keywords are the words people like to say when they speak about a subject, and tend not to forget. They are for example easy to spell when you forget other complicated words when you are in a discussion.