How to make profit with a blog?

How to make your blog more usable...

Weblogs are different than webpages, we are all aware of that. But there are some basic usability improvements that can be made to blogs in order to make the visitor experience much more pleasant. Over at useit.com they have created a great article outlining some of the biggest issues with blogs today and what can be done to easily improve the usability of a blog. Please take a read!

We have included some of the suggestions here and how you can easily make your own blog much more usable to your end users using Blogware:

No Author Biographies makes the blog impersonal – by adding a “webpage” into your blog you can have a permanent link to your own “about me” page. This is different than an article, instead it is a component that lives on the side of your blog that users can access easily.

No Author Photo makes it impersonal – this same “about me” webpage can also easily include pictures

Classic Hits are Buried inside the blog – By creating a favorites list inside your blog, you can easily point your visitors to classic articles that you have written.

The Calendar is the Only Navigation – by taking advantage of Blogware’s nested categories you can easily allow users to navigate to areas of your blog that will be of interest to them. Add a "category tree" to your blog to ensure that users can find what they are looking for. Consider adding a "search" function as well!

Mixing Topics will dilute your users and their dedication – again, by using your categories, and potentially controlling access to certain categories you can make your blog seem specific to one topic.

Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service seems less serious- By working with your retailer, you can easily have your own personalized Domain name to work with your blog. This will present you as the serious blogger that you are!

More suggestions are at the article noted above. Easy changes to your blog will make it much more usable for your visitors! Good luck!