Home Business Opportunity: Blogging Your Way Catch Readers Eyes
The number of bloggers is growing everyday. Just the other day a friend of mine who had never blogged decided to set up two separate blogs. This means however, that there is more competition for home business opportunity owners who use blogs to earn an income either directly or indirectly.
To help stand out from the crowd, bloggers are advised to post regularly. The trouble with this is you see pages upon pages of text and no matter how interesting the piece is you’re still stuck with eye strain. But turning your content into a head turning, jaw dropping, sexy knockout that everyone wants to view is as simple as adding an image.
Images are the most uncomplicated, yet most effective way to grab a reader’s attention. There have been a number of times when I’d see a drab looking blog headline accompanied by a quirky, amusing, or stunning image and suddenly I was interested to learn how the picture related to post.
Sometimes there really was no correlation but the author got me to stay and at least skim the content.
Getting your content read is the first step to making a sale and a blog picture can help make that happen with your home business opportunity.
Also, blog pictures can help increase your home business opportunity website traffic. When you add a picture to your blog you should use an ALT tag that relates or describes the picture. People who make image searches may come across your blog image and if they click on it they are brought to your blog.
To use blogs pictures effectively consider the following.
1. If the subject of your blog post is about a product, display a picture of the product next to the post. The same goes for blog post regarding a website. In this case displaying the website logo or even a screenshot of the site will enhance the look and feel of the post.
2. Use clear images. The only thing worse than not having an image is having a blurry one.
3. You want the images to load quickly so keeping the images on a smaller scale is best. Plus an image that is too large will over ride the content. This is the last thing you want since the main objective is to get your content.
4. Sometimes all you need is banner, something with a bit of color to break up all the black and white text. Using your affiliate link marketing banner and images is an effective way to add some spice to your post.
5. Always hyperlink the image if you are talking about another site or previous blog post.
6. Images with bright colors get more attention than those that look dull or washed out. Often, a faded picture has been saved too many times. When searching for free blog images to use, try to look for recent ones that have not been altered too much.
7. Your images can be controversial, humorous or in some cases both but keep in mind that everyone’s taste is different, so opting to push to the envelop too far can work against you. Always keep your audience in mind when choosing images.
If you are a photographer or like the art you can take the pictures yourself. If not, there are many websites like photobucket.com or istockphoto.com that allow users to use pictures for free or a small fee.
Adding a good blog picture to enhance the story you are trying to tell will help to make your blog post more attractive and attention grabbing and therefore increase your chances at selling your home business opportunity.
Top 15 Best Online Business Blogs
Below I have listed the top 15 best online business blogs.
Wait, let me re-phrase that, they are actually MY top fifteen favorite online business blogs. That may or may not make them the “best” but I don’t think anyone would argue the fact that they are damn good blogs full of great online money making information.
All of them cover many topics in the “make money online” or “online business” niche. Most of them are well known and established members of the make money online blogging community and I’m sure it’s no surprise that they made the list. However, a few of them are not as well known but are the up and coming online business blogs that will soon be right up there at the top with the others.
Google rankings, PR, Technorati ranking, Alexa ranking, and feed subscribers don’t necessarily have anything to directly do with making it on this list. However, for the most part, they do have high marks in each of those categories because they are very well established and full of great online business tips. Mainly they made this list because they are the ones I visit the most and I feel provide the best online business and money making information.
So, here are the top 15 best online business blogs listed in no particular order:
* How to Make Money Online for Beginners
* Court’s Internet Marketing School
* DoshDosh
There you have it. The top 15 best online business blogs teaching you how to make money online!
Any blogs that you would add or remove from the list? Leave a comment below.
Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Home Business Ideas