Having graphics is good as well. I have been trying to incorporate more into some of my recent posts, but I find it hard to discover very relevant pictures to the blog topics I write about. I have been looking around Flickr and other sites but generally I have trouble finding relevant graphics.

Any ideas?

A few more ideas (let me know what you think):

* Spacing: generally, more spacing is more pleasing to the eye. For example, in your post above, I wish your subheadings (“Ways to..”) started their own paragraph. Secondly, having each bullet point on its own paragraph might make it more scannable.

* Graphic: towards the top of the post, put a relevant (ideally beautiful or memorable) graphic to capture more attention. Or if it’s a long article, “pepper” multiple graphics throughout the post to make it more attractive. A post with a graphic makes it more viral when “shared” on Facebook also.

Thanks again,

George Kao
http://georgekao.com

Usability wise and considering a brand new visitor to your blog, posts should be kept in as low word count as possible.

But of course, all depending on the target audience and the article theme, the word count can be much higher than the 300 suggested in my article.

Great blog you run!

For my home and garden blog, most of my posts use short paragraphs and are under 200 words total, but for my writing blog (where I’m writing for readers/writers), I’ll often hit 1,000 words (still short by Pavlina standards, heh heh).