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6 ways to improve your reader’s experience
Building a site is not all about building a good looking theme only but building a site means getting your readers coming back and influenced by your site’s user experiences. Your site should be easily navigated whenever visitors come to your site, thus easier for them to look for something they want.
[1] Is ABOUT page important?
When I visit a site, I might be solely interested in what the writer offers in the contents. Mostly I will stumble upon their site whilst searching for something to read. However, I would also like to know who is the writer, whether a she or a he, where is he/she from, what he/she do or work and etc. I want to know who wrote the article and whether they are trustworthy or not. By making yourself known to the reader it makes yourself easier to be contacted. Thus, readers may inform you when your site has problem or give you some ideas on how your layout should be. Plus, they might introduce you to others as well.
[2] Do you find your site loading speed is slow?
Visiting a site with slow loading is sometimes threatening my patience. If I lose my patience I might not re-visit the site. Don’t you? Many readers may not have the higher speed internet connection privilege on their side, thus having a site that loads too slow might kill their interest in visiting your site. I love to install widgets that work very well for my purpose in my blog, however if I find any of it is making my page load too slow, I will take it out or pluck it under the footer so that the body will load first and the footer later. I believe there are many tricks or hacks out there that can help you tweak your page to load even faster.
[3] Do you prefer to organize by categories or dates?
At first, I would organise my site by months and ignore the categories as my list is far too long. However, I find that once I’ve pluck in the categories, the readers managed to navigate to what interest them to read. In money making blogs, it is most important to organise by categories as it will let readers select what they category they are interested in to read rather than finding it through the selected archives by months.
[4] I used related images
A picture speaks a thousand words. Most of the time I will put in an image to portray the topic I am blogging about, thus I can easily relay the message to the readers to the particular post meaning. It might intrigue more readers too.
[5] Make your content scan-able
Sometimes when I visit a money blogging tips blog, I may not take the time to read every word in the post and I will mostly scan through it to pick up the points. So how can I organize the post to make sure that my points are ‘highlighted’ out from the post? Well, I sometime use numbering, block quotes, bolded certain text, italic certain text, and point form. Readers can easily go through the list or words without reading others that might ‘waste their time’.
[6] Do you show your blog’s top posts?
When I visit a blog/site the first time via a search, after reading the specific post, I will search for any related post that might interest me. Having a top posts list might help me out to check out what other readers read. It helps me to navigate through their page to skip from one post to the next as well.
Tell me what other ways you prefer to be able to navigate through a webpage?
Top 5 lesson to make money online
Starting any blog that you want to make some money from is very easy and some comes free too. There are so many tips or tricks and heaps of information out there on ways to make money online, selling affiliated products or even creating make money forums. The toughest part of the above-mentioned will be continuing in blogging, like what I am doing in this blog. Why is it tough? Well, you need to maintain the frequency of blogging in your busy schedule. Sometime you probably need to turn into a hermit and gone missing for a week or two running your upmost important errands, and worrying how your traffic might tumble down as time passes.
Blogging for money sounds to me like a marathon and I do see some blogs fail after the excitement withered off. Getting ideas to blog in your blog is getting tougher as you go on. I know most of us wants to make money online as well as to start a money making blog, but read the list below before you start.
- Are you able to write good contents? Contents that will attract and gain the attention of your readers. Contents that reader will learn something from it. I find contents that helps people to solve problem keeps them coming back for more.
- Are you able to make your blog stand out? Anyone creates the money making blog with a general name such as ‘Money Making Blog” or whatnots. How are yours something different than the rest?
- Blogging not only takes your time and effort but also your intellectuality in writing something that you enjoy and wants to share with others. Are you able to do that?
- Everyone is writing about money making online. Same opinions and same points. Are you able to give different perspective?
- Do you know how to make your blog pleasant to read by reducing clutter? Perhaps this will be my next posting tips….
