The best way to keep your readers coming back is to provide them with great content. Anyone can write a blog post, but it’s writing blog posts that people will find interesting, exciting and make them want to voice their opinions that counts. I’ve found that writing 300-400 word posts taking the piss or criticizing other blogs seems to work best, but I guess that works for everyone because people love controversy. Some bloggers are able to write long posts that keep the reader interested, Griz from makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com is a perfect example of this. Unfortunately for me, I’m not as talented as he is (I guess I’m ass kissing) so I have to try and write short, sharp straight to the point posts. Anyway I’ve been looking at the many ways of posting content and I’ve been trying to figure out which is the best.
Long and Informative
Yeah, these types of posts may make you sound clever, but half the time the people writing them haven’t got a clue what they’re on about. If I’m lucky and do find a post where the author does know what he’s talking about, I’ll often fall asleep half way through because the author fails to keep my interest or it’s flooded with big words or subjects I don’t understand. You’ve got to have a flair for writing, know your stuff and have a sense of humor if you want to pull these types of posts off.
Lists
Lists! Arghhh, I hate them! (hmm, this post is kind of a list) I guess they’re good if you haven’t got anything to say, but man, use your brain and think of something to say. Actually I’ll take some of that back. Lists are good if you’re listing the biggest dickheads in the make money online world.
Reviews
Unless you’re reviewing something good I tend not to bother wasting my time with these types of posts. There are to many blogs out there now flooded with paid reviews! Yeah, it’s nice to make money but your blog just turns to crap! People will eventually tire of your blog and quit coming back. If you’re posting lots of reviews, then make sure you double your relevant content to even things out. This doesn’t apply to review blogs of course.
Voicing Your Opinion
If you’re going to voice your opinion try and make it interesting, most people probably aren’t interested in how you found some money and handed it in to the police station. If I see someone writing their opinion on how much somebody sucks, Bam! I’m straight in there, I’ll read everything the person has to say and I’ll leave a comment. The problem of writing posts like this all the time is kind of the same the same problem as writing reviews all the time. Instead of tiring of your crappy reviews, people will tire of hearing your big mouth all day.
Interviews
Interviews can be fun to read if the person been interviewed is interesting. Interviews with the guy who created the latest money scam bore me to death. This is mainly becasue the same questions are asked over and over again ”how long did it take” ”what you did before” Boring! Now if you were to ask ”Do you care that this program is just a scam and people wont make money at all” I’d definitely be interested.
Ass Bandits (Part 2)
Basically were you blog about others just for the sake of getting noticed by the blog you’re blogging about. Pfff, load of crap! Don’t do it unless you want the reputation of been a chow bum boy.
Guest Posting
This has it’s benefits, it will get you noticed by a whole new audience and expose your talents. I tend not to do it though because why on earth should I feed another blogs content just for the sake of 5 minutes of fame. Some people say its good to guest post and others agree with me. It’s up to you decide on this one.
Well I’ve looked at the most popular methods of posting, and I’m still undecided. One thing I have noticed though is that all of the methods seem to have more bad points than good. Maybe it’s just the way I look at things. I seek out the negatives rather than the positives. Strange thing is, it’s the total opposite of how I look at the real world. So, maybe if I start to think more positively towards the content I write, I might just start to create those killer posts. 
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May 18th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Hey, nice post. It’s nice to read a blog with a bit of humour in for a change. Keep up the good work buddy.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Hi there Funked, I agree with a lot of what you said, but I’m not sure I agree with guest posting. Guest posting is very very very important I feel. You’re spreading the word, showing your skills, getting yourself out there. Even if you don’t like writing guest posts write one anyway and see how it goes.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:08 am
I like a mixture of long and informative, with voicing your opinion. Because that way you get information and knowledge but hopefully it’s presented in a fun entertaining way.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I myself am trying to get away from longer posts. If I would break them up, I could probably get two or three posts out of some of them. For a while there, my posts got longer and longer until it took too long to write them. I am glad I am nipping that in the bud.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Hey, man, what happened to your site yesterday. It was gone for a while.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 am
Hmmm, not sure. Funk13 still runs on a crappy host. I just can’t be bothered to switch over to my main host. Laziness
I’ve noticed over the last few weeks this site has had quite a bit of down time so I need to make the switch soon.