{"id":6937,"date":"2013-02-06T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2014-01-08T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T07:52:22","slug":"tricks-to-make-a-great-blog-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/tricks-to-make-a-great-blog-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricks to make a great blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever though: what is the purpose of\u00a0my blog, who will read it, and how do I make it great?<\/p>\n<p>Consider the\u00a0following if you want your blog to be more than just a blog:<\/p>\n<p>Who wants to read your blog?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Define your goal with the blog<\/li>\n<li>Know your audience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What should your blog contain?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Relevant content<\/li>\n<li>Few points \u2013 ideally just one<\/li>\n<li>Links to further information\/sources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How should your content be?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brief<\/li>\n<li>Conclusions displayed at the beginning<\/li>\n<li>Simple, personal, direct\u00a0language<\/li>\n<li>Lists instead of paragraphs<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quality check<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be either directly useful, entertaining or challenging to the reader<\/li>\n<li>Be consistent<\/li>\n<li>Build trust<\/li>\n<li>Start conversations<\/li>\n<li>ALWAYS check for spelling arrors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get more tricks\u00a0on how to make a great blog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susan Gunelius &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.about.com\/od\/bloggingtips\/tp\/TipsBeginnerBloggers.htm\">Top 10 Tips for Beginner Bloggers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Charlie Beckett \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/polis\/2012\/08\/07\/why-blog\/\">Why blog?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Kyrnin &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/webdesign.about.com\/od\/writing\/a\/aa031405.htm\">10 Tips for Good Web Writing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Neil Patel \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quicksprout.com\/2011\/11\/14\/neil-patels-guide-to-blogging\/\">Neil Patel&#8217;s guide to blogging<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Neil Patel &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/7-reasons-why-blogging-is-still-important-in-2012\/39225\/\"> 7 Reasons Why Blogging Is Still Important in 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever though: what is the purpose of my blog, who will read it, and how do I make it great?<\/p>\n<p>Consider the following if you want your blog to be more than just a blog:<\/p>\n<p>Who wants to read your blog?<br \/>\n\u2022Define your goal with the blog<br \/>\n\u2022Know your audience<\/p>\n<p>What should your blog contain?<br \/>\n\u2022Relevant content<br \/>\n\u2022Few points \u2013 ideally just one<br \/>\n\u2022Links to further information\/sources<\/p>\n<p>How should your content be?<br \/>\n\u2022Brief<br \/>\n\u2022Conclusions displayed at the beginning<br \/>\n\u2022Simple, personal, direct language<br \/>\n\u2022Lists instead of paragraphs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks-to-blogging-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ku.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}