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8 little things to make your blog post better
The document outlines eight tips to enhance the quality of blog posts, emphasizing the importance of simplifying language, proofreading, and using smart quotes. It also suggests using lists, resizing and compressing images, controlling paragraph length, and utilizing proper headings for better organization and SEO. Implementing these small changes can significantly improve reader engagement and trust.
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8 little things to make your blog post better
- 1. 8 Little things Tomake your blog post better
- 2. You’ve written yourblog post
- 3. You’re ready topublish
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- 5. You can stilldo a few little things
- 6. Little things canmake your readers love you
- 7. Little things canmake your readers share you
- 8. Little things canmake your readers come back
- 9. These things takea few minutes
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- 11. 1. Simplify yourlanguage
- 12. I love HemingwayEditor
- 13.
- 14. If you can,have a person read your post, too
- 15.
- 16. Pretty please. Withsugar on top.
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- 18.
- 19. Get a humanbeing to read it, too
- 20. 3. Get smart(quotes)
- 21. Smart quotes arethose curly cue things like “”
- 22. Straight quotes arethose sad little marks like ""
- 23. Don’t paste curlyquotes!!!
- 24. They get allscrewy. That’s a technical term.
- 25. Learn to createsmart quotes in HTML
- 26. To get thissmart quote Type single right quote ’ single left quote ‘ double right quote ” double left quote “
- 27. (Wordpress Visual modewill do this for you)
- 28. A few othersymbols
- 29. ellipsis … & (ampersand)& em dash — en dash –
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- 31.
- 32. Looks like thison a web page
- 33. On the otherhand, this text
- 34. Looks like thison a web page
- 35. That’s much easierto read
- 36. If you don’tknow HTML, don’t panic
- 37. Your tools probablydo this for you
- 38. Want bullets instead?Use “<ul>” instead of “<ol>”
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- 40. Make all ofyour images the same width
- 41. Make sure imagewidth = column width
- 42. That’s my personaltaste. Yours may vary.
- 43. On the Mac,just use Preview Handsome devil, isn’t he?
- 44. On the PC,try Paint
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- 46. Smaller file sizesload faster
- 47. Faster pages getmore readers and shares
- 48. On the Mac,try imageoptim
- 49.
- 50. On the PC,try Caesium
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- 52. 7. Control yourtext
- 53. Max 5 lines/paragraph(I prefer shorter)
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- 56.
- 57. First, use realheadings
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- 60. Using <h1></h1>, <h2></h2> meanscleaner layout…
- 61. …and may bebetter for SEO
- 62. Second, use headingsto organize your prose
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- 64.
- 65. It doesn’t takemuch
- 66. A few littleerrors can erode your audience’s trust
- 67. A few littleimprovements can build it
- 68. Do these 8little things, and see what happens
- 69. By Ian Lurie @portentint CEO:Portent www.portent.com
- 70. Learn more coolstuff at www.portent.com/blog