I have been visiting a lot of blogs lately and was surprised how plain or simple some were and thought it would be beneficial to suggest ideals on how bloggers can spice up and improve the quality of their blogging website.
Anything that helps keep your readers longer is beneficial. Today we will cover add-ons, themes, and plug-ins that will retain visitors and also help you become better blogger in the long run. There’s many things you can do personally to help with writing but today it’s all about the look and appearance for your visitors.
Your current template or theme
How old is your template now?
Have your reader been seeing the same one for more then a year?
Perhaps it’s time to consider changing into a new look and feel.
Visitor appreciation
Show your visitors that you appreciate then commenting and visiting your blog. Add any widget that will say thank you and help them promote their blog. I would suggest one of the following plug-ins.
What about your pictures!
I find this is one of the most annoying things a blogger can do. I hate clicking images only to find I was sent to the image url. Come on my blogging friends lets make this look nice for the visitors.
When I click an image I want a nice java script pop up (on page) that’s easy to navigate and doesn’t send me to an image page with no back button. I personally use the following plug-in, Shutter Reloaded. It’s brilliant and a must use for all bloggers preparing to show images in blog posts.
Well I hope this helps you guys some what! I know it’s made my blog way better.
I couldn’t blog without them!
Cheers,
Brian
Blog: fanciano Franklins Blog
Forum Topic: Voice your opinion
Firstly I want to start off by saying it’s been an absolute pleasure meeting Franklin and following his growth on his blog.
He’s an active member of the blog engage community and a very active up and coming blog writer.
Today we give tribute to Franklin’s blog and do an overall blog website review.
Design: Franklin just upgraded his theme to a new and very clean template. With the new look standing out so strong and organized I don’t see it being a problem for any of his visitors. Navigation on the site is easy allowing visitors to flow through the website at ease.
SEO: Franklin is practicing very good SEO behavior. Using the most beneficial titles for his articles and also taking advantage of the powerful SEO that naturally comes with word press. He has adjusted his URL structure to me of most benefit for SE’ crawlers. To avoid dupe content I would suggest reading the following article, Unique Content Increases SEO and Organic Website Traffic.
Content Quality: The original content provided at Franklin’s blog should be a lesson for many bloggers to learn from. Not only is it important to have original content but it should also be of great quality and that’s exactly what Franklin continues to deliver on a daily basis.
BackLinks: I use my own tool to discover the majority of Franklin’s back Links. So far he appears to be doing great with over 210 back links! Surprisingly enough blog engage is ranked very high and many times!
Keywords and Meta Tags: Overall Franklin is ranking very poor for the quality of his Keywords and Meta Tag Descriptions. He should be looking at replacing the existing ones with something more unique to his website. Franklin don’t worry I have seen way worse! just take some time and tweak it a bit.
Meta tags analysis
Title: Title meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 46 characters.
Title relevancy to page content is fair.
The Title relevancy to page content is 71%.
Description: Description meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 139 characters.
Description relevancy to page content is good.
The Description relevancy to page content is 83%.
Keywords: This tag contains too many characters.
This tag contains 14438 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a ‘robot friendly’ web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 500.
If you are interested in getting a blog review simply join our blog forums and post just like Franklin did.
Enjoy
As another week passes by we find ourselves filed with quality content and today I bring to you the top articles submitted to blog engage on the week. This is based on the users and not me. The users simply vote for the articles they enjoy and eventually they have more votes than the others.
We send a big thank you to all the members that take the time to vote!
Top Articles Submitted to Blog Engage on the Week
1. How to keep blog visitors even longer
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2. Tweeting with DestroyTwitter, vs TweetDeck
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4. What Causes Grinding Sound When Making a Car Shift
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6. Kelis Claims Nas Is A Deadbeat Dad
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7. Spin it Again – The Day the Music Didn’t Die
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9. Which Medicare Benefit Is Right For You?
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10. The Power of Rudraksha Breads
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I hope you enjoyed the list!
Please take a moment and visit these blogs! Comment and Engage the article!
Thanks,
Brian
The Blog forums are back up and active.
What’s Next?
1. Upgrades
2. Portal Addition (again)
3. Reputation System (again)
Registrations… hopefully
Join our Blog Forum
So much blogging about the main site I thought it would be a good time to take a break and visit the Blog Engage Blog Forum to see if we could find some active and dedicated members to blog about there.
Seeing we have the new design I think it would be a great time to promote it an our members at the same time.
So without waiting any longer I bring to you our Top and Most active members inside the Blog Engage Blog Forum.
1. Henis – Blogging Website
2. Rumbling – Blogging Website
3. JoshPerson – Blogging Website
4. Mkcoy – Blogging Website
5. Jessi – Blogging Website
6. nursarahlam – Blogging Website
7. aparichit – Blogging Website
8. Raivyn – Blogging Website
9. Moreld – Blogging Website
10. GeoServ – Blogging Website
Thanks for being so active guys!
Brian
