Blogging: Tips and Tricks for success!

Hello everyone!

In this blog I am going to share with you some of the things that I find important when constructing a blog post so that you may in turn share them with the s of your respective communities.

Basically I break down a blog post into three main categories.

1. Title / Picture

The title of your post combined with a properly selected image is very important and has a large impact on how many people are going to take the time to click your blog post and check it out.

You need to choose an image that will attract the right kind of attention and works well with your title.

A personal preference of mine for my theory blog posts are alternate title puns.

For example in a post I made on Equestria Amino, explaining why I think the Equestria Girls Universe was originally a prison colony set up by StarSwirl the Bearded, I took the title of a popular prison movie and ponified it.

The Shawshank redemption

became

The ShawFLANK redemption

and hilarity ensued for all......

Also watch the Shawshank redemption.

Great movie.

2. Substance / Topic

After your title has whet the readers appetite and enticed them into your post they are going to want to sink their teeth into something juicy.

This is where you serve up your main course and hope that the people clicking your blog find what you have presented them with satisfying.

If you are posting a written article make sure that the topic you have chosen is interesting to yourself as well as your prospective audience and is something you are comfortable writing about for more than a sentence or two.

Adding an element of humor can also, even in a serious blog, help endear the reader to you and make them want to come back for more.

If you are simply posting a few pictures or a favorite video you want to share then they are going to do the job for you and you can just sit back and coast to fame on the work of other people...

Ahem....

3. FORMATTING!!

Nothing makes me nope out of a blog post faster than a giant foreboding wall of text sandwiched together like some demonic run on sentence from hell.

Reading an article that looks like that is honestly very unpleasant and difficult to manage as a viewer can feel lost while their eyes struggle to make sense of the nightmare you have inflicted upon their poor corneas.

Breaking up your article into sections and paragraphs makes a blog post much more visually appealing and makes it easier for the reader to become immersed in your narrative.

If your post is especially long then you may want to consider inserting a picture after a few paragraphs that is relevent to either what they have just read or are about to read to give your reader a momentary break allowing them to ponder what they have read before continuing on to the next part of the post.

Spelling and punctuation fall into this category as well.

A typo here and there can be forgiven (but if you see one go back and edit it out!!!) and sometimes there is a word you may not know how to spell.

That is what dictionary.com is for.

Hell google works most of the time unless you are so far off from the actual spelling that you'd be better off clicking "I'm feeling lucky" and taking your chances with whatever word came up that way.

If you are going to take the time to write an article take the time to do it properly as both you and your followers will appreciate your work all the more for it.

One last helpful hint that I personally have found to be a life saver is to do the following when you are creating new blog.

LEAVE THE TITLE BLANK!

If you leave your title space empty until you are ready to post then you can't accidentally post your blog before its finished!

I hope that you and the s in your community find these suggestions helpful!

- InvisiBrony out