Your blog header could do wonders for you!

Imagine you get a free one-year subscription for Magazine A or Magazine B; of either you should choose. The choice is yours. You can’t pick both. You have no prior experience with either and you have no way to decide other than looking at the cover page. The thing is one magazine has a kick-ass logo design and the other one is just simple!

<>And just by looking at it, you’ll probably select the one with the good design, right? Now what if we can apply the same thing to a blog? Suppose you have good content and a good blog design. But you need to say out loud ‘I am a professional!’ to the average site visitor yes? Why not do it with a professional header design? I mean, that’s the first thing that a visitor sees in the blog. And probably the first impression of the visitor would be based on your header right?

And if you header does the talking about professionalism for you, then, you score!

It’s psychological. When people see premium blog designs or professional headers, they automatically brand your blog, ‘great blog!’. (Yes, with an exclamation mark!) Much like you wanted that subscription of the magazine with the kick-ass design.

Of course! If you don’t have any design experience at all, and if you’re not willing to spend and get it done, probably you should ignore it. But if you do, then why not make use of that and have a good header, and maybe a good logo design? It can probably drive a visitor’s gut feeling into subscribing to your blog.

On the other hand, people like Steve Pavlina had been highly successful with just a simple mention of their domain name in the header. But I believe that he could have enjoyed more from his blog if he considered having a cool header design. What do you think?