3 Researched Tips for Creating a More Readable Blog

For several years now, the internet has become an entity that plays heavily into every aspect of our lives. Not only are our professional lives conducted heavily online, so too are our personal, romantic, and educational lives intimately married to elements of the web. As the web continues to play a more vital role in our lives, researchers are paying even closer attention to what it is web users look for in a site. Numerous eye tracking studies have been performed throughout the past decade to interrupt how people read websites. These studies have provides webmasters and bloggers with valuable information on what areas to focus on in their blog and how they should structure their website, so that their visitors receive an optimal look at the site. These three tips are proven to help readers find the information you want them to see on your site.

Use Smaller Print for the Important Stuff
For many web users, this concept may seem backwards. We often think that things of great importance should be big, loud, and outgoing. While this is true in some cases, it has been shown that on websites people pay closer attention to text that is smaller. So, headlines and titles should be made in larger print, but for things that you would like your visitors to read more carefully use smaller print. Smaller type invites closer, more detailed reading. Use smaller type for things like your websites mission or the about me section of your blog. Bloggers should keep their posts in a relatively small font to ensure that their visitors thoroughly read the post. Of course, this tip can obviously go pretty horribly astray. Don’t use a font size that is difficult or annoy to read. You always want your site to be easily accessible. Be smart about your font sizes. Don’t use font that it is so large it looks mocking and don’t use font so small it’s a strain to sit and read.

People Look at Headlines First
Intuitively, we think that people look at images and graphics before they look at text. This assumption is grounded in some worthy thoughts: graphics are colorful, exciting, interesting. However, eye tracking research shows that individuals look at headlines and text before they look at images. So, your headlines and titles need to be as eye catching and alluring as possible in order to keep your readers around. Create headlines that are descriptive, but also enticing. Titles are the most important aspect of blogging. The titles of your articles are the things that are ultimately going to convince people to read your post. Don’t think that you can use a flashy image to make up for a bad headline or title. Invest a considerable amount of time creating headlines and titles that are keyword strong and well written. Gaining a regular audience begins with attracting readers to your posts.

People Scan the Left Side of a Page First
Eye tracking studies show that, when presented with a list of headlines, people will scan down the left side of the page, looking only at the first couple of words from each headline. This information can be very valuable for webmasters and bloggers. Put all of your most eye catching and interesting words at the front end of a headline to try to interest your readers enough to read the entire thing. Successful blogging is all about attracting a reader and interesting them enough to stick around and maybe eventually come back. Design your website so that big, flashy headlines run along the left side of the page. This is where a user’s eyes will naturally fall and they will be more likely to read your posts.

Author Bio:
This guest post is contributed by Lauren Bailey, who regularly writes for best online colleges. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: blauren99 @gmail.com. Follow Lauren @bailllauren.