Saturday, January 3, 2009

Updating Your Blog Posts: Style And Content

By Don Bethune

The information you choose to offer in your blog, and how you go about presenting it is ultimately what determines the tone of your website. Doing so properly can be a financially rewarding home based business. What is your personal area of expertise? Is it political in nature, or social? Visitors to your blog demand that you offer concise reports of information as it occurs. Often, they wish to offer their own opinions on the happenings. During this Novembers elections, it was the blogs who were often first to break news. Often, they did so before most major news outlets. Thus, visitors of your blog rely on your updates and opinions to offer them what the aforementioned news outlets are not.

Timely, relevant summaries should make up the majority of your content. Style separates you from blogs following similar issues. Ideally, you want readers to follow posts through affiliate marketing programs, rss feeds or portable devices. Short updates at regular intervals build confidence in your ability to keep readers informed.

During times of increased inclement weather, blogs consolidate information into an easily digestible format. These blogs stay ahead of major news outlets by offering this information as it occurs. They interpret the information from the National Agencies and format it to be easily understood by the reader. Websites who specialize in offering meteorological information provide this information for you to digest, consolidate, and post onto your personal blog.

Meteorological websites often hosts a variety of blogs that update according to the commenteras expertise, such as tornadoes, national and tropical weather forecasting. These blogs update as information become available. Weather changes rapidly and affects specific areas. Your readers may be located in several places but have interests in activity affecting areas they share a special interest in.

During times like hurricane season, a meteorological blog will update more frequently to address readers comments and questions. A recent hurricane, Hurricane Gustav had several thousand blog viewers respond to blog updates in a variety of blog locations. These users have a desire to know what is occurring as it occurs. Sometimes, these blogs will even see increased activity from users outside of their country of occurrence.

Technical blogs offer information as it comes in from outside sources. Blogs that follow finances updated during the business day. Personal social networking blogs update as events occur in the user's own life, or when the blogger wishes to know their reader's thoughts on a particular topic.

Content and style relevant to the readeras preferences are what keeps readers engaged. Affiliate marketing programs can be lucrative but may distract readers if links are randomly inserted into posts. Readers expect you to keep them informed. Adding links to opportunities catering to your readeras interest benefits both of you.

Keep affiliate marketing program material, such as home business opportunities inserted in the margins or in areas readers can choose to explore. Keep your own posts on topic, or off topic as that may be. Itas your personality and expertise that keeps readers coming back. - 16755

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