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If there was one factor within the headline that could capture a reader almost instantly, and even subscribe to your blog for long time reference, it would probably be the ‘inspirational factor’. Most of the time, it’s about writing a headline that everyone can relate to – and can appeal to the masses. When people check out your articles, most of the time, it’s not because they like the headline. It’s because the headline inspired them to check out the content below.
Bottom line is, it’s not always about the headline. It’s about having the “wow!” factor of that headline echo through out an inspiring post. Check out some A-List blogs and read their most popular posts if you don’t believe me.
If you thought writing on an inspiring blogging topic can be really tough, well, I must say it’s really not. Here are a few tips that I employ, and that could be useful for you on how you can get inspiring blogging topics:
I’ve seen very good results when I wrote about pressing blogger issues. An answer to a question that masses face, can bring you a flood of positive responses. For starters, think about a pressing issue that’s creating a waves. And blog about it in a way that people would want to read. There’s really nothing to it. Address that issue and provide your own perspective. People would want to check it out since it’s something they can relate to too.
This is what most controversial bloggers tend to do. But, you don’t have to invoke a negative emotion for it to be so strong. It’s basically about manipulating the brain waves of the reader since they are feeling so strong about something. Get into your readers’ shoes and tap into your head. How can your niche positively and genuinely make a difference? I could write about how bloggersunite unites the bloggers for a cause and so on. But this may not be employable in certain niches like celebrity gossip, unless, they are being negative:)
This is exactly I’m doing right now. People love reading how others were inspired. It gives the whole thing a higher value. For an example, my post about “What tuning a guitar taught me about blogging“, receives hits even now, despite of the fact that it was written many months ago. In that post, I describe how I was inspired about maintaining my posting frequency, by looking at how a guitar was tuned. Which was really an analogy, which brings us to our final topic.
I find this to be an extremely effective way in inspiring a reader, but it’s also the hardest. It takes a lot of time, and there’s a lot to be analyzed and “wired”. Unfortunately, this is a very niche specific thing and I’m afraid I can’t really exactly tell you how to do this, though I can assure you that with a little creativity, anything’s possible. This was my latest analogy. It’d help you to grasp an idea.
How would you inspire your readers? Do you see it as a vital way to build a better blog?
(Image Credit: Marko Milosevic)
Great ideas. You got me with hooked actually with the inviting headline. I wasn’t on a normal visit to your blog. I just wanted to drop a card and zoom off. But I couldn’t resist the urge to read the entry and now I end up throwing in a comment. I guess that is an evidence that the tips you shared above works. Cheers.
Yeap, thanks for your comment Tony. It had worked so far for me
Good points… Its a little hard to cover some of them with my technology blog… but great ideas none the less… thanks
same with Tony on my 1st encounter to your blog, you have a cool one!
I think another important tips are, thorough observations & keep update every second, last but not least, hang out a lot will give us abundant inspirations:)
making stories or posts that may inspire others to read it frequently, i guess, is the hardest thing to do but worth of time especially if you see that your readers are increasing. nice blog here, i’ll bookmark this one.