There is a lot of different type of post that you can write. The blog is yours and you can write whatever you want on your blog. However there is some posts that are more popular and maybe thats what your visitors are looking for. What is the ingredient of different type of posts that will attract the most visitors? If you love to see more traffic, first thing is to understand what your audience like to read. Below is top 10 popular types of post that will make your readers coming back for more.
- Writing Lists
Lists is very popular among bloggers and in fact they are one of the most popular type of posts that people want to read. Just imagine you have a catchy title “Top 10 ways to increase your web traffic” or Top 10 reasons why your blog fails” will trigger your readers to click on your title to find out more about it.
- Writing How to..
There are lots of people searching the internet to learn how to do something. It is extremely popular and including of images in your posts to demonstrate the steps will help understanding better and easier for your readers.
- Recommendation posts
By recommendation, you will be sharing your favorite things related to your blog topic and people loved that especially if they can find things that are useful to them.
- Writing Tips
If you are specialized in a certain knowledge, most probably you want to write in a tips form and share it in your blog post. People love to read that especially if you are showing that you are the expect in that field.
- Organize a Interview
If you have establish some reputation and creditability online, you may want to arrange with another blogger related to your blog topic for an interview. If the other blogger is an authority in your niche, its going to be a big hit with your readers.
- Holding a Contest
Holding a contest and giving away prizes is one popular posts with people as they loved to get involved and win things. It is also a way of establishing interaction and relationship with your readers.
- Conduct Polls
One of the other way for your readers to get involved is to conduct a poll and encourage them to vote. If the question is highly debatable, more people would like to express their views or opinions regarding the poll. Polldaddy is one popular tool among bloggers.
- Writing a Review
Bloggers are very influential in the internet world and they are a great source of powerful marketing through word-of-mouth. Writing a review on the products you used is extremely popular with people and they will be glad to read about it and share with other people.
- Accepting Guest Posts
Accepting guest post from other bloggers will give your blog another perspective. Its a win win situation as the audience of the other blogger will pay visit to your blog too.
- Create a video
Video blogging is extremely popular nowadays as you can create a video and publish it online for to express your views or teaching people. However you must be comfortable in featuring in a video if you want to do a video-blogging.
Do you have other type of post which is extremely popular with your audience? Please kindly share with us in the comments box.
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That’s another great list Ley.
Lists and how to’s are become very popular because of the useful information they provide to the reader, specially how to’.
And contests? Oh, they are great crowd-pullers if done in a proper way.
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Thanks Sourav, i agree with you. These are the few that are most popular with bloggers and everyday we will be able to see these posts in different blogs.
Talk to you soon.
Lye
I like wriing How to,Tips and List.But I thinks you miss contest
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Hi Punama, thanks for commenting. There is a “Holding a Contest” in the list so i don’t know whether that is what you think. All these few that you mentioned are some of my favorites too.
Have a great day ahead.
Lye
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Hi, I would also like to add ‘personal-related articles’, they have great success too. Thank you for sharing this good article, inspiring one. Cheers!
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Hi Latief,
Thanks for adding and the comments, Appreciate your support.
Lye
How to posts, interviews and videos drew me to blogs and that’s when I cultivated the habit of visiting blogs. Conducting polls is another good technique but I’ve always been skeptical about this method.
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I like reading tips and remedies. It helps me a lot after I finished reading it. Also, the ways writers shared is an excellent type of reading too!
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