Focused Articles Attract A Greater Reader Response

Developing Focus In Life: Life is filled with distractions, one of the many responsibilities we have is learning to deal with these distractions to become more focused. I’ve talked about focus before, and I believe it is important because it helps you live a better life. Being focused allows you to think more clearly and make the right decisions more often. Lack of focus is destructive and leads to a disorganized thought process hence a warped outlook on life.

Writing Articles Frequently: As a blogger, my responsibility to you and to myself is to ensure that I write blog posts or articles on a frequent basis. My second tier responsibility is to maintain a certain level of relevance and context in the articles I write; this simply means that I need to post about topics which are related to the field in which I write.

Keeping Articles Focused: A common misconception with blogging is the point that, since it’s your blog, you can ramble on about anything you want, when you want. This is not a good idea as it will prevent your blog from maximizing its success potential. To attract readers, you need to keep articles focused, talking about some weird childhood experience in your post about Yahoo or Microsoft is irrelevant and it will put people off your writing for good.

Topics That Attract Readers: A huge part of writing focused articles lies in the selection of the topic or theme for the post. When you’re thinking of what to write about, try and think about it from a readers perspective, what keywords make you want to read more of a post. The next step is to ask yourself, what kind of content makes me want to read the entire post. Usually content or articles about well known companies or services do well in this area. If you have new ideas to share about blogging, writing, advertising and marketing, they can also succeed in getting people to continue reading.

Structure Is A Part Of Focus: The amount of structure and ‘calls to attention’ present in a blog post will play a role in determining the amount of focus it has. Your blog post should have a sequential flow, like this one does, it goes from a basic introduction, to a point about articles, it expands on the point about articles and then goes on to talk about what to write about in those articles; it then suggests in this very paragraph how to improve focus via structure. Then it links back to the overall theme of reader response below. Now it all starts to make sense, focused idea (topic), good headings, fantastic flow, simplistic structure, great post!

Reader Response: When you write with a certain level of conviction and coherence, you are more likely to attain response or feedback from people. Why? Simply because your title caught their attention and your article was able to fulfill the time they took to read your post. A focused article may sometimes be very simple and short, but it has the ability to evoke response because of that. These kinds of articles or blog posts tend to convert better, in terms of attaining links, comments and RSS subscriptions.

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Tags: article writing, better writing, blog post structure, blog-comments, focused articles, life, problogger, writing topics

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