What are the main principles on writing a good blog entry, how not to lose your audience over a time, how to keep them reading, how to keep them asking you to write, in five simple steps

• Try to make sense with your blog article. If you write your everyday eating, or what you saw through your window, no one will read your blog. However, if you describe in the best possible way how did your breakfast look like, and how did it feel after, or what did the girl who passed by the window look like, it’s a winner.
• Write as often as you want but don’t overdo it. Your readers will be fed up with your articles that you wrote at 10 am, 10:22, 10:45 etc. Write them at 10, put the rest to some text file, and wait for it to pile up, then at 12, sort it, split it, post it.
• Don’t write too much. Ordinary reader will be gone after 2, max 3 paragraphs. They have books to read, so don’t put essays, put scraps. If they are interested, add read more, or something similar to your article, but in the main article, just put a TOC.
• Don’t make a mile-long list of what are your likes, dislikes etc. It’s just not cool anymore, and there are sites that can aggregate these lists for you. Google for them…
• Don’t brag about it. You have written an article. Published it, and now you’re spending next 24 hours digging it, googling it, technoratiing it etc. Don’t do that. If your article is worth anything, you’ll get your audience, even if you don’t look at your article ever again. It’s all about quality.

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