I am currently taking a class in school about technical blogging. One of my first assignments was to look at roughly 6 blogs I enjoy and 3 blogs that I am not a huge fan of. As I looked through reread through these blogs I took notes about techniques they used that drew me in as a reader, and also took notes about what turned me off as a reader.
I turned this assignment about analyzing blog post into this blog post ~blogception~
This will be broken up into GOOD and BAD sections. The good section includes techniques that writers used that I enjoyed. The bad section highlights of few of the things bloggers did that made me less likley to read their post.
GOOD
· Half “self help” half tech startup topics
· 90% of read times under 3 min
· Spacing in sentences(hitting enter) makes it look more broken up
· How to, what, why Titles, Ten things you’ll learn titles
· Mix of photos and no photos for posts
· 1 post every day( some seem like he is posting just to post)
· 1–4 post a week
· under 5 min read time for post
· Personal (movie reviews etc)
· Number points
· Relevant
· Uses headings
· Credible bio
· Photos throughout articles
· Summarizing what others have said (usually tech giants)
· Separation in text chunks and bullet points
BAD
· Not a good bio-doesn’t build ethos
· Posting just to post
· 1 word titles
· Text is in large chunks
· 5 min read time = too long
· not enough tech posts
· Too narrow
· Too many acronyms
· Less than once a week posting
