Quick Tip For Bloggers

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Hi Everyone,

So I have a quick tip for bloggers. Maybe you're already doing this, maybe you're not. But considering the advances in blogging and the overall market acceptance of blogging as a viable source of information, I would recommend you do this if you aren't already.

Blogs by nature, are meant to inform and deliver some type of information. But ask yourself... how many people who visit your blog for the first time actually know where they're going and how to navigate to where they want to go?

Lot's of times when you run an informative blog, it's very easy to get wrapped up in the overall race to deliver great content and in doing so you could be very easily alienating your new visitors.

When a visitor comes to your blog, normally the latest posting is all the way up top, first story, or you have a featured posting section that revolved the latest couple of stories. But is that where your blog started? Are those the seeds of your blog? Most likely not.

The readers who have been with your blog, love it and will tell you they love it because it's informative to them. They come to your site, they read your content, all the new information is listed neatly from top to bottom.

But what about your new visitors. Do they come to your blog and ask "Where do I start?" or "Wow! Where do I begin?" - if you've been blogging for close to a year that could be the case.

When I started blogging, (non IM related), within 6 months I had nearly 10 pages of content, unique content, not barrowed content. It left me wondering how new visitors felt when they visited my blog. So I would visit other peoples blogs who also had lots of content. A lot of times, even though I knew their blog had valuable information, they were so far ahead of me, I didn't know where to start.

Visitors don't want to be confused or left to wonder, most visitors will leave your website if they don't know where to start.

So what's my tip?

Create a START HERE section, page, or post, that basically tells people where to start and how to start consuming the information you're providing. Make that page, or section, or post, easy for new visitors to find, like right in there face. But also don't forget to blog about it to your existing readers (or send them a message via newsletter) that you'll be doing it so they also don't get annoyed by your new page or section. Ideally, anyone new should be able to find it, but it shouldn't be annoying evident to the point that old readers think it's in the way.

In this START HERE section, list all your major starting point posts to help them consume your information. And put the information in the order that it's best consumed in, not the order which you wrote it in, because we all know lots of times we don't write in the best readable order.

Even more, don't forget to put a big opt in box in your START HERE section. You want to use the opportunity to grab new visitors info before they leave so you could send them updates, newsletters, or whatever. Most blog visitors now a days at least are right sidebar opt in box blind. Same way people have become ad blind on websites. So you want something that clearly stands out in a good way.

Hope you've enjoyed this tip, by Adam Powers
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