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How To Write A Interesting Blog And Get It Noticed

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Astrian's Avatar Astrian
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Alright, this is a post with Tips and Tricks on how to post an appealing blog post that will catch the reader's eye and make them want to continue reading.

TIPS:
1. Fonts and Colors: First of all, if you write out your whole blog in the size 1 font, it might look something liike THIS. Now don't get me wrong, It's not a bad blog, it's actually very detailed and a fine example of a blog. But lets be honest, it's a huge blob of text that's all black and mostly all one font.
When I Look At A Blog Like This, I Just Think:
httpassetsdiylolcomhfscresizedhuffman-meme-generator-ain-t-nobody-got-time-for-dat-aJPGjpgIt's a huge wall of text, and if you're like me, you don't want to waste your time reading something that many others have posted and is just an slightly changed opinion. Once again, no offense to the poster of the blog, it's just a good example of what I'm talking about.
What I did there was add some color to my post, it pops out from the rest of the blog and draws attention to the sentence, it should be used for sidecomments about pictures, or to draw ATTENTION to a part of the blog where you want to put emphasis on a topic. Don't go overboard though, just a few sentences.

2. PICTURES: As I did with the tip before, I used a picture to explain how I'm feeling and it has a bit of humor in it, which makes readers want to continue to see what's coming up. Lots of people are visual learners, if you show them pictures and examples of what's going on, they'll understand it better than if you just tell them about it.

Example of Picture Usage, Teen Skins:
Teen Skins are the bane of Planet Minecraft's existence, these skins are pumped out every day and every minute by lvl 1 - 3 users while the good skins are ignored and passed on buried into the bowels of Planet Minecraft httpcdnplanetminecraftcomfilesresource_mediapreviewSwedishPostman_minecraft_skin-jpg<--- Why is this ignored (made by Lewisisme)
How To Write A Interesting Blog And Get It Noticed<--- While This Is Hogging The Limelight on the reel? (At The Time This is Posted, This was actually on the popular reel, it will probably be removed soon :P)

As you can see, instead of explaining how stupid this is, i showed an example of a teen skin that has been on the reel, and another good skin that doesn't have nearly enough credit it deserves. When dealing with common topics such as teen skins and "the future of (planet) minecraft" it's the little things that makes your blog more special and stand out from the rest.

3. Proper Grammar!: Now this is a fairly simple one that doesn't need much explanation on why this is important, so I'm just going to show you an example instead of boring you with FACTS.

A Well Worded Review: To me, Minecraft is a wonderful game that offers a fun environment for players to build, survival, and of course, destroy whatever they please, all while playing with other players that can be from many different parts of the world! (I didn't take this from anything, I literally wrote this on the spot :P)

A Poorly Written Review: Minecraft iz a gud game, u can build, grief, and survival with otherz butt the multiplayer iz wher its at, i pleyed wit a guy from Canadia. (I know it's exaggerated but, yeah, I've met people on minecraft like this...)

Be honest, which one would you rather read? The well written blog that looks like the poster actually took some time to correct their mistakes. Or the other where it looks like the review was ripped directly from a raging 12 year old playing CallOfDuty :P
I mean you can talk however you want to online, but when I read a review, that means I'm generally interested in this topic and I want to learn about your opinion and how you feel about it. If I wanted to read something with the worse grammar in history, I would have went to memebase and looked up a Dolan Comic.

Also, you probably didn't even notice this, but do you see how my paragraphs are organized? They are separated
when they're supposed to be, by doing this, your big pictureless topics don't look so threatening, without these separations my blog with look like a huge wall of text that I really doubt anybody wants to read.

One more thing while we are on the subject of grammar, try not to
cuss or use profanities in your blog. It's just a small detail that makes your blog better.

4. ORIGINAL TOPICS: Once Again! I know you people have your own opinion about stuff and want to get your word out! But please, we know... We know that teen skins are stupid and bad... We know that Minecraft is starting to suck with all the dumb glitches and bugs... You don't have to make a blog about... Please...

WELL THAT'S IT, For the creating of your blog, Imagine, it's now posted, and you're just sitting there... twidling your thumbs....... hope someone reads my blog..... <----- NO!
Don't wait for the people to come to you! Advertise your blog, get the word out!

TIPS ON GETTING YOUR BLOG POPULAR!

1. Advertising On Chat Lounge:
The chat is the best way to get your blog out! CHAT The rule on chat is, no spamming! Meaning you post your link every 10 - 15 Minutes people will see it! Also, it's better to post it as a hyperlink like I did with the link, I linked it with "CHAT" it saves space and it looks better than www.planetminecraft.com/stupidblog/dumb/boring/lookatmahblog

2. Advertising Using Your Forum Signature: It's a subtle (fail spelling) way to advertise your posts, basically you copy and paste the link to whatever you want to promote as your forum signature and then start posting on threads and people see your signature is a link, get curious about it, click, instant view!
But once again, don't spam on threads, nobody wants that, be
clever and funny, or just post an interesting reply. Makes you look good and makes forumers(?) (help me out here) want to learn more about you!

That just about does it for my tutorial, I hope you learned a thing or 2 about posting a good blog.
Remember! Even if you didn't bother reading any of this blog and just scrolled to the bottom like i normally do,
DIAMOND, FAVORITE, and/or SUBSCRIBE
Have a nice day!
-Astrian
CreditAstrian, Lewisisme, OliverFrenchie
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Update #1 : by Astrian 08/17/2012 9:19:23 pmAug 17th, 2012

Freakin changed the spelling of SUBTLE

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06/30/2013 1:18 am
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Creative_Bros
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I didn't read it, but basically, you need a good cover image, not-misleading title, and clear text. Colour the text as much as you want, but keep it clear. Everyone likes a clear and easy to understand blog, with straight opinions. No "jibba-jabba-bulls**t" cause we ain't got time fo dat!
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08/17/2012 9:15 pm
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Ash
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It's spelt "subtle" when you've used suddle. I'm guessing that's the word you're looking for :) Other than that, it's a very nice blog :)
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08/17/2012 9:19 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Pony
Astrian
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ugh, thank you! That's really been bothering me for a while and I felt stupid for not knowing how to spell it :P I'ma edit it and put the correct spelling, thanks again!
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08/17/2012 5:24 pm
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majed9
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Another example is my Blog here

http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/how-to-help-pmc-get-noticed-by-mods-and-others/

lol we both made blog on how to get noticed ;)
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08/17/2012 3:05 pm
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nothingultimate
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First comment and also nice :D
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