Easy Ways to Get More Readers by Making Your Blog Posts Look Great
No one wants to read a blog that is so full of text it seems more overwhelming than a copy of War and Peace.
The best blogs not only include amazing content, but they also look
good. They invite visitors in to read more because they're visually
appealing. Fortunately, there are easy tricks you can use to make your
blog posts look great and pique visitors' interests in your content.
1. Images
Adding
images to your blog posts breaks up text heavy pages and provides
visual relief. Images don't have to include just photos. You can use
screenshots, diagrams, charts, graphs, illustrations, and more. Just be
sure to use images that are
copyrighted in a way that allows you to legally publish them on your blog. Check out these
5 sites for free images.
2. Video
Video adds visual
and
audio interest to text-heavy web pages such as blog posts. There are
many sites that allow bloggers to embed video content directly into
their blog posts, such as
YouTube.
3. Headings
If
your blogging application offers pre-formatted headings that you can
apply to specific text in your blog posts to make it stand out from the
standard post content font, use them. Headings can break up text to
create a more
scannable blog post, call attention to important parts of your posts, and help
search engine optimization efforts, too!
4. Lists
Most
blogging applications offer easy tools to create bulleted and numbered
lists within your blog posts -- use them! Lists add white space to your
posts which provides visual relief to text heavy pages.
5. Color
You don't have to be an expert at
HTML
to change the color of text within your blog posts, and doing so can
help the visual appeal of your blog posts significantly. Just don't go
overboard and use too much color. Instead, save color for hyperlinks,
headings, or particularly important text. You can learn the basic HTML
code for changing text color in this
HTML overview for bloggers.
