A guide to Bloggers and Readers

Here’s some advice for drawing readers like me:

Blogger’s Guide:

* Provide unique, actionable content. To be honest, I don’t care if you’ve been blogging for five years or five minutes, if I feel I’m going to leave a site having learned something new, count me in.

* Post frequently. This doesn’t mean that you have to blog every day — a few each week will do the trick — but if multiple weeks pass between each post, readers will stop checking in.

* Maintain focus. Nothing says you have to restrict yourself to a single topic, but you’ll confuse readers if you hop randomly from subject to subject without explaining why.

* Add visual interest. You’ll notice that many bloggers include an image with each post. Follow their lead. So much of social media is visual perception.

*Get a good software like blogjet to make writing easier .

The Point: Good content is good content. Even the busiest people make time for their favorite blogs.

When I first got involved with social media, I was subscribing to anything and everything. A while back I purged and got down to a manageable amount of daily blog reading. With so much engaging content available, I’m frequently tempted to re-expand my reading list.

Reader’s guide:

My screen shot:

1.Get a good feed reader. Its a must for any blog reader.I can suggest FeedDemon or FeedReader if you are using a non broadband connection.And if you are using broadband connection then firefox bookmark or technorati or Bloglines  can do the purpose.

2.Select everything that catches your interest and remove feeds gradually and at the same time add  new feeds too.

3.Choose variety of topics. Don’t subscribe to different blogs of same topic.