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I'm Mervi Eskelinen!
An artist, nerd and sorcerer, dedicated to make world softer and better for everyone, and to get you to make more art. Make art, change the world!
3 ways your blog fails
Is your blog built for success or does it fail terribly?
Sure there's always someone who thinks your blog is awful, for a reason or another. Often the reasons are very subjective and you can discard them.
However your blog may also fail in more general ways. When it does, the readers will scatter before you notice. If any of the following apply to your blog you need to fix it. Right now.
The blog looks bad and is hard to use
The design of your blog may seem like a minor detail of it. I mean, content is the king, the queen and everything in between.
The content, king, queen or what ever, is nothing if your blog is difficult to read and looks overall awful. As great as the content might be, the way it's presented can trump the greatness.
It's easy to make your blog more attractive. Remember to think also how the advertisement is presented. Does it really look good?
Centered text, horrible fonts, terrible use of colors and not using paragraphs will drown your awesome content. Make your blog more readable and your content will do the rest.
Need help? Ask me!
Commenting is difficult
If your blog has commenting option, make sure it is easy for me to make comments. I get it, spam is a problem and that's why commenting your blog is like trying to get into a very exclusive club. Unfortunately it prevents valid comments as well.
For instance captchas might be a way to stop spam, but us "regular" human beings also find them difficult to read. So please, get rid of them.
Log out from the administration of your blog and try how commenting works. Remember: If your commenting system forces a person to sign in and log in, it's always too much work for a little comment. So no. Don't make us do that. (Blogger blogs are infamous for forcing to be logged in someplace to make the comment.)
Instead of making it unnecessarily difficult, let your readers easily connect with you.
The blog lacks personality
So you have heard from all the experts how to be a successful blogger. That you mustn't talk about yourself and you must provide information. And all of that bs.
Make sure your blog has lots of personality. It's the only way for you to stand up from the masses of bloggers.
Tell about yourself, write posts that include things about YOU. Provide entertainment.
Use your own way to present things, don't copy the style of someone popular. If your thing is to write long posts, do that. If short blog posts are your thing, great!
Of course, remember to add the "about me" section to the blog, including to that ad riddled sidebar of yours.
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