The Best Tips for Creating the Most Engaging Blogs

In this world of quick and easy fixes, who wants to read is a common question? However, looking at the response content gets on the internet, the biggest medium of communication and staying connected around today, there is a serious reason to ponder over such misconceptions.

Facts and Frills about Blogging

Over the past decade, content has evolved as the King and anyone who presses the right keys of words has more chances of attracting wider audience and increase the clicks. This has certainly made blogging a serious business so much so that even highly placed CEO’s and intellectual bigwigs have taken to penning down their thoughts to improve their image and spread across their views.  Nevertheless, this does not mean that a blog has to be serious, gravely sketching statistical facts. Instead, blogs that have a touch of sarcasm, satire and creativity score better among the readers and even outwit the most intellectually written blogs.

Serious About Blogging?

So is there a special way to make your blog more engaging? Can you really hit the bull by appropriately placing the unique keywords at regular intervals or is there a secret recipe of coming out with an engaging blog?

If you are indeed keen on taking blogging and want to improve the way you present your blog, here are some tips that will surely help you in the long run.

1. Hook Them from the Start

Well, if there is anything that you must always keep in mind is to engage the audience with the first sentence. There are many tricks to do that. Start with a question to increase curiosity or make a bland statement right at the start so that the reader feels eager to know what is in the next line.  Some other ideas to make a thought provoking start is putting a quote, using statistics to underline importance of a particular subject, or start with a storyline. After some time you can develop your own style of starting a blog and attract a strong readership owing to your writing style. More often, it has been seen that articles with a good piece of introduction are shared more on social media platforms. So, if you do not wish to miss a single trick when it comes to garnering a better response to your blog, just hook the readers from the start.

2. Include Both-Knowledge and Passion

Nothing can replace the impact quality content can make. So, when you start writing on a particular topic, it becomes quintessential that you understand and study the topic in detail, get complete information about it. Only then, it is possible for a blogger to make the write up look convincing. Gone are the days when back linking and several other white hat techniques were considered effective in making your blog escalate in the search engine index ranking. Today, popular search engines such as Google uses hummingbird, which detects quality content and information and only such sites and blogs, are included in the index ranking. So, the tip is to put more information in a creative way and ensure that the piece of content sounds passionate enough to motivate the readers.

3. Every Word, Every Phrase should Hold Meaning

Studies suggest that the attention span of the readers of the internet is shrinking and hence if you want your reader to keep on reading the blog you need to ensure that every word and phrase you put in the content is meaningful and holds valuable information. Each word should contribute towards enhancing the quality of the content.

4. Make it Unique

Multiple articles and blogs are available on the same topic on the internet. Similarly, to write a blog you have to squeeze information from the vast content scattered across the virtual world. So, why would someone particularly read and share your blog? The answer is being unique. Your ideas and ways of presentation can make a big difference. For this, you need to prepare by asking a few questions to yourself such as:

What can increase the utility of this information?

How can the scope of the given information increased?

Can the available content shaped to match a particular niche?

5. Sleep Over It

Some ideas need time to grow and take shape. Hence, even if you have completed a blog, just let some time go instead of hurrying to post it. Sleep over it, let the thought remain with you all the day through, over the night and then proofread it. You are sure to add something of value to the content as the thought process brings out something more creative and innovative from within.   Many expert bloggers write the blog and simply forget about it. After a couple of days they just go through it and voila, completely revamp it or make certain subtle alterations that immediately enhances the quality of the content by few notches.

6. Keep it Communicative

To keep boredom out of the blog, you must add interactive tone to it. Make sure that you are writing as if you are talking to the reader sitting just across you. Depending upon the target audience, you need to make the tone more subtle, refined or humorous. Is your blog about children and their toys? Then, keep the tone playful and delicate. Instead, if you are promoting a health product make sure that you support your statements with statistics and figures and even quotes from the renowned healthcare givers.

So, if you are writing a blog you need to take care of a lot of things. But one thing you should never forget is originality. You should read different blogs by renowned bloggers to understand the style of writing and the way blogs are projected, but avoid having that influence in your writing because original piece of work always outshines among the competition.