Practices that make your blog less professional

 In the heat of managing a blog, which can include everything from writing great content to working with advertisers, moderating comments, promoting the site, ignore some aspects of the site - small like broken links  From things like intrusive advertisements and big things like overcrowded design.

 Over time, as your site grows, you keep adding things - a banner here and there, a link section, some social media buttons, some graphics and so on, that eventually stop your site.  It becomes difficult for your readers to find out what is what.  Since you are spending hours of the day on the site, you can probably navigate it blindfolded.

 But this is a completely different story with your readers, especially the first timers who visit your site.  The simple you see, they can see the opposite.  So it is important to take a step back and look at your blog purposefully, from afar, to catch the pit holes that make your blog look amateurish, and below are 7 exercises that will help your blog's professionalism  Let's see them out!

Too many ads

 Monetization is one of the cornerstones of any site, blog and web business, and is usually done in the form of advertising banners and links.  While you have every right to benefit from your hard work, there is a fine line between earning every pixel on the page to earn revenue and advertising revenue.

 Not only is the practice of adding too many ads misleading, annoying and insulting to your readers, it is also harmful to the ads you show: most of the time your users will click on only one ad, so if you have 10 ads  , It means that 9 of them have been ignored.  The more ads you have, the lower the impact.

  Experiment with different ad providers and ad positions, then choose some effective ads and place them well.  This will generally give better revenue and a more desirable look than filling the ads on your site.  Also, do not use text ads that link to your content.  First of all, users have already learned how to avoid them, at the very least, it is frustrating, especially the ads that once hover over you.

 Intrusion Advertising

 The ads that come in the extension of your banner, among others, once your mouse passes over them, or glows like a Christmas tree.  This is the advertisement that auto music and video play, and worst, the biggest number: pop-ups and pop-unders.  Pop ups and pop unders have gained such a bad reputation, and rightly so, that any site that offers them is immediately viewed by the user.

 Always remember that this is the reason the visitor got in the first place, so you need to hang on to them.  Trouble them too much, and they won't come back, no matter how great your content.

 Don't be annoying.  Check out what kind of companies advertise on your site, how their banners look, and choose the display method that makes readers less nervous.  And about pop-up / pop-under: don't do it.  No matter how much you are paid per pop-up window, it is annoying and most people stop it before advertising, it is only for a short time.

 Too many social media buttons

 Sharing your content and making others aware of it should be part of your routine.  But there is a limit to how many Twitter buttons you can cram on your site before it upsets and distracts readers.  Always remember that as long as it does not disturb the reading material, it is right to do everything.

Gather your social media / share buttons in one place on your site.  On the sidebar, or above / below the posts.  This is much better than a Retweet button, a Facebook share button on the other side of the page, etc.

 keep it simple.  Ignore fancy, shiny, gaudy, big buttons.  They won't get you more Twitter followers than a regular, simple Twitter button.  Also, position them right.  If the button appears at the bottom of the page, rather than at the bottom, readers are much more likely to retweet your articles.

 Bad design / crowd design

 When designing your site, you have a lot to consider, and the most important thing to strike is a good balance between site graphics, content, advertisements, etc. And the worst thing is that you can make your site look different  Can create a crowd with elements.

 As soon as users arrive at your site, the first thing they are looking for is content, and it is your responsibility to make sure that the content is easily found before users reach the destination with fancy graphics, social media buttons,  No need to scan through banner ads etc.  In short, don't make it ugly for design and usability.

 Realize that you won't be able to fit everything on your site, especially if you want it "over the fold" (at the top of the site, before any scrolling).  Make sure your main objective is to display your content in a readable manner, then build the design around that notion.

 It is a fancy, colorful header that distracts users, and / or pushes the content of the page down.  Nobody ever bookmarked a website because it had a fancy header.  Focus on the content, and build everything around it.

Splash Page

 When someone comes to your site, they usually come because they discovered something, or someone posted a link that they thought was worth clicking.  This is the most valuable part of getting them to come to your site, and when they are finally there, the worst thing is that you can block the content as soon as they arrive.

  

 A splash page asks readers to subscribe to your RSS or follow you on Twitter or give their email address a big turn, with a "fraudster" feeling on it.  A splash page is preventing readers from accessing your content because of your browser, and worse, most of them are innocent because they didn't even know about the browser, and they even know,  Stopping access upon receiving a visitor is a very bad step.

  Do not use splash pages, no matter how creative they are.  Its as simple as that.  Not a single "Welcome" page for new readers.  And don't dare ask for their email address, no matter how much you think they will enjoy your free e-book or whatever you are offering.

 . Different content from others

 We are all guilty of doing it at one point or another: when we have no thoughts or positions, we "cheat" and aggregate content from others, a "daily news roundup" or something similar, until  That your site is not completely a content aggregator like Reddit.

 

 There is nothing wrong with doing this once or twice a week, share the content that you appreciate, but there must be posts like this, never inspect your content.  Remember that content is king, and by content it means unique content.

 You have readers who come because of your unique content, not content you have linked to from other sites.  If readers start visiting your site because of the link you share, then you get in trouble, because those readers easily lose to the next guy, who can do better in the "Daily Roundup".

 Limit "raise" posts, twice a week or once a week, and make sure that the articles and links you include are the best you can find.