Every time a new reader hits your blog you want them to stay.
Great content is key but it's not everything.
Readers need to be able to find your good old stuff - easily.
And every way they turn they need to be enticed in for more.
And whilst they are there you want to monetise them - as much as you possibly can.
This collection of simple tutorials provides 10 cool ways to enhance your blog quickly.
Each tutorial provides easy to follow instructions that require no prior knowledge of HTML or blog templates.
1. Put Ads in Your Blog Header
Your blog header is your most valuable ad spot but by default Blogger doesn't put them there.Luckily it's very easy to edit to your template to display ads above your blog title..
2. Refresh Sidebar Content in a Minute a Week
Eye catching sidebar content draws readers into more posts, but you must keep it fresh.
In less than half an hour you can set up the content in your sidebar so that it can be refreshed weekly in literally less than a minute's effort.
3. Customise Your Comment Form
You can easily customise your comment form so that it says exactly what you want it to say rather than the bog standard, default message provided in Blogger.
4. Style Beautiful Jump Breaks
A jump break near the top of each post will mean enticing snippets of your most recent posts are displayed on your home page rather than the whole of each post.
5. Hide Post Footers on Your Home Page
Post footers with comment boxes, signatures and buttons clutter up your home page.
You can easily hide post footers so they don't display on your home page.
6. Easily Add a Button For Readers to Grab
Link backs from other blogs help your search ranking in Google and Alexa.
You can offer readers a button to grab that links back to your blog in just 10 minutes.
7. Create an Index of Your Great Old Posts
You don't have to keep churning out new posts to get readers
The trick is to write posts that will still be useful, interesting and / or funny in months and even years time, and then make it really easy for readers to find these posts.
8. Make Older Post Links Look Enticing
To keep readers browsing through when they get to the bottom of your home page, you can easily style your older and newer post links to make them look pretty and stand-out.
9. Create Mini-menus In Your Side Bar
To prevent your main menu getting too cluttered you can put mini-menus in your sidebar that attract readers in to explore yet more of your content.
10. Style Stand-out Sidebar Gadget Titles
Side bars are a great way to get readers to stay on your blog. To stop them getting cluttered you can style your sidebar gadget titles so they clearly highlight what you have on offer.For more tips on growing and monetising your blog check out these posts ...
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