{"id":143,"date":"2008-11-01T08:47:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windchimesindia.wordpress.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-07-25T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T20:23:00","slug":"blogcontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/2008\/11\/blogcontent\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought &#8211; Content for Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most number of mails that we get revolve around content for blog. It appears that most bloggers start off writing about a certain subject and then slowly lose way. That happens because they feel that there aren\u2019t many readers on the subject they are writing!! Well, maybe that could be the case if you are writing about very specialized subjects. For most of the others there could be other problems plaguing us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have listed out few of them. Check out for yourself if your blog is not party to this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blogs are fairly unregulated in content. But be careful and sensitive to what you write. A lot of impressions are formed about you as a person while reading your posts. I have read many blogs that talk about <em>\u2018sex\u2019<\/em> or <em>\u2018race and caste discrimination\u2019<\/em> but treat the subject with so much maturity that it generates healthy debates and comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s a myth that blogs specializing on humour get more hits. I have read several blogs on gardening or bike repair that consistently get more hits than most arbit funny blogs. What matters is that you are providing something of value to the reader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The average blog post size should be 450 \u2013 550 words. There is no official documentation on this but more about discussion with successful bloggers. Break up your post into series of blog posts if you intend to cross that limit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Write the \u2018About Us\u2019 column seriously. I have noticed that most users read that section first after landing on your blog. Guess it\u2019s the innate curiosity to know more about the author. Your About Us page must mention who you are, what you do and what subjects does your blog cover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Give an appropriate title to your blog. Remember you will be mentioning it for creating visibility. It must give users an idea of what they will find when they visit your blog<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Participate in communities and comment on other blog posts too. <a href=\"http:\/\/windchimesindia.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/18\/blogessentials1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to feeds<\/a> to other bloggers \u2013 their post could spark of new thought in your mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read our posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/windchimesindia.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/18\/blogessentials1\/\" target=\"_blank\">essentials of a blog<\/a> and how to <a href=\"http:\/\/windchimesindia.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/19\/blogvisibilityblogvisibility\" target=\"_blank\">generate hits for your blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most number of mails that we get revolve around content for blog. It appears that most bloggers start off writing about a certain subject and then slowly lose way. That happens because they feel that there aren\u2019t many readers on the subject they are writing!! Well, maybe that could be the case if you are writing about very specialized subjects. For most of the others there could be other problems plaguing us.<br \/>\nWe have listed out few of them. Check out for yourself if your blog is not party to this.<br \/>\n\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blogs are fairly unregulated in content. But be careful and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/?post_type=post&#038;p=143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9],"tags":[30,778,780,47,168],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-blog-visibility","category-blogs","tag-about-us","tag-blog-content","tag-blogs","tag-communities","tag-value-content"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3121,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windchimes.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}