This is a companion posting to one that I wrote on in my Blog at Today.com.syllabus

Illarterate.co.uk gets the credit for making me think about my Blog Posting.  What is the “Perfect” Blog Post.
For Me a perfect Blog Post consists of the following:

  • Visually appealing
  • Keeps the readers attention
  • Gets a good ranking on Search Engines

Regardless of the Blog topic, my purpose is to build a readership base and keep them coming back for more.  The most eye opening part of the Illaterate blog post was the statistic that the average Blog reader stays on the page for 30 seconds.

In my post on Today.com I talk about how Academia loves words.   The more words your paper contains the better it is.  This will NOT work on the internet.  Lots of Blogs tend to be wordy and not visually appealing.  There is really no excuse for this.  Even the rudimentary tools in WordPress allow formatting and graphics insertion.  Hyper-links are not hard to add either.

I think that it might be better to break up large thoughts into smaller snippets across multiple posts.  Brief posts can be read easily.  Here is the quandary.  SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) doesn’t like short posts, and one commenter on the Illarterate posting said 300 words is the minimum.  I will do a bit more research on this, but for now here is the plan for my posts:

  • Length = 300 Words
  • Minimum of 1 Graphic
  • Use Formatting (Bold, Bullets, Colors)
  • Compelling First Paragraph

I will try my hardest to stick with these 4 points in my Blogging, and will let you know how they work.  I don’t like long lists, so keeping it to these points should be attainable.

  • What do you think about my plan?
  • What is your definition of a perfect Blog post?

I am not a professional writer.  Take a look at my friend over at PathToSuccessBlog.  Her posts fit my definition.  Send me some of your examples.

-Loren
http://www.theteachingbox.com