What is a High Impact Blog Entry Made Of?

If you are a blogger and you want to establish yourself as a good one, and your target is the whole world as the audience, then your aim should be having posts that create big impact. Even if your goal is to only let the world know what you think, or what your ideas are, still – your aim is to create posts with big impact.

It is not in how many people read your posts, but it’s on how people react with the discussion you have just posted. Are your blog entries being tweeted or passed on in Facebook? Are they stumbling it, or bookmarking it on Delicious? Are they voting for it on Digg? These reactions are just some of the many ways that you can measure how much impact does your blog have.

But before we will analyze what is a high impact post made of, let’s look at the total opposite. These are the kinds that come by the hundreds, that many people find useless and not talk-about worthy:

* What activity I had today
* A link you should see
* What’s for lunch
* Why I have not blog for a long time
* Your wet dream with a beach babe last night

Viewers find these topics useless, without value, and they will just forget it in a matter of nanoseconds, unless you are a good friend.

As for high impact posts, there is no definite formula for one, but here are some tips you can simply follow:

Usefulness of the topic – make it somehow valuable to readers by making them excited about what you wrote.

Complete guides - be it complete as it should be. One must be able to follow what the guide instructs.

Great headlines – Headlines are headlines. It should make people curious and dying to know what’s written.

Controversial – You can talk about controversial things, and speak about your point-of-view in a very intelligent and engaging manner. Just remember to not write about controversial things just because of the attention or just to say something.

Short – Short posts are sometimes not high-impact – as a matter of fact most high-impact posts are lengthy – but if you can come up with one brilliant idea and can jot it down in one paragraph or less, the bigger the chance you will be remembered. Seth Godin is a good example.

Memorable - Don’t make it a real plain jane. Make it something really good that people will quote it or be reminded of what you wrote.

Consistency - one good post is enough, but if it keeps on coming and coming, then you will get more readers and gain more impact.

Good source of resources - as much as possible, link other useful blogs to your entry. This will save people time from doing research.

Fresh ideas – of course, each and everyone can come out of that box. Be unique that way.

Discussing different angles - You cannot just side on one angle of the story, though you cannot cover most of it too. But you can go into depth if you can write about the different sides of the story.

Fewer posts – Bigger number of posts can only overwhelm readers. So minimize the number of posts that you create in a week so that readers can follow through, even if they have not been online for a short period of time.