How to make my blog more interesting?

Who is your audience? Is it mostly people you know, like friends and family, or are you hoping to attract a much larger following? The first thing to do might be to figure out who is reading your stuff, figure out what they think is interesting, and write about it.

If what you’re writing is (by your standards but especially theirs) “very boring,” more of it doesn’t necessarily make it better. It has to be something that they want to read – which is usually going to be something informative, or amusing, or something they can identify with. Something they can’t get elsewhere and something worth reading – like a reward for tuning in.

Good luck!

@laureth , my audience are just people from Youtube and stuff like that. I have a Youtube channel, where I do make up tutorials, talk do tags and stuff like that. Then after maybe posting those videos on Youtube I also put them on my blog, but there I tell more about the things I used and stuff like.

I like video blogs that teach me how to do certain things. Maybe you should add some video tutorials about things that you are good at.

@Luffle , lol I am good at doing my nails, I am good at mixing up clothes I think that I have a unique style
lol

My fiancé and I started a joint blog of how we met, etc. We’ve posted photos and links to two of the videos he made and posted on YouTube.

While this link isn’t a blog, you and @Luffle might find it interesting. I’ve used it on occasion to learn how to do something.

Don’t make yourself write everyday, even if it’s something you love doing now! :] Write whenever you want to write. Otherwise, you’ll get tired of making yourself write so much. =[ And only write when you have information/tutorials that you think would be interesting/entertaining. If you write about a boring day, the audience might not be very happy! =]

Good luck with your blogging!! :D

I run a few blogs, a personal one, one for my farm, and one for a hobby I love. I am the sole content creator for all three, and for each one I have a different method of posting.

For my farm blog, which is my most popular one, I write posts when I feel inspired to but I schedule them to auto-post once per day. This way I can keep busy with farm things but offer new content regularly to my readers. Updating once a day will give you more traffic, period. The majority of people still visit the blog versus subscribing via RSS, so updating once a day makes sure they know they will get new content when they visit the site. It’s important here to make sure your posts are categorized so they can be browsed easily. Since you can get a lot of new users coming to the site, optimizing their experience increases the chances they will stay and recommend the site to other friends – and new users often want to learn who you are and what content your blog has to offer them, so give this to them right off the bat.

For my personal blog, I write when I feel inspired to and publish that same moment. There are large gaps between my postings and then sometimes I’ll post three times a day. I figure if someone really wants to know about the things I do, they’ll come back to the site, or subscribe via RSS, or read it when they wonder “Hey I wonder what she’s been up to now”. This blog doesn’t have as much traffic but it is read by my closest friends so it’s a win win. It’s also the blog I visually redesign often. I feel it is a more close expression of my creativity and thus I like changing it up from time to time.

My hobby blog is different. It gets its majority of hits through Google searches for terms related to the hobby. So I treat it as an information archive, I don’t care about when my post is published, I just care that it IS posted there so people will hit it when they do searches. And also it keeps the hobby topic out of my main blog and farm blog which is good cause it’s a pretty niche hobby. This is beneficial because those who stumble on the blog are likely a part of the niche hobby market, so they get a blog with 100% content relevant to their interests versus hitting say my main blog and having to only read one category.

In general, just like writing a website, authoring a blog is all about knowing your audience and catering to them as best you can. But above all else, I think the key to a successful blog is providing good content and creating a fun atmosphere. So don’t post once a day if your posts are mundane. These posts are noise. I have a few examples of these posts in my personal blog, back when I felt the need to blog once a day despite nothing of importance happening. Nowadays I’ve come to realize that my blogging time just happens when it happens, that it’s fine if I have a month or two between personal blog posts. For my farm blog, so much stuff happens here that, as I mention, I have a backlog of posts (the list is displayed to visitors, this is great, it excites them about the future content), so it covers days when nothing interesting happens. And even when it’s a boring day, I sometimes take the opportunity to share that boredom itself, telling others how nice it is on a relaxing day, taking a picture of my calm relaxing animals, etc. I know that publishing once a day on that blog is important to keep the traffic flow up, and this is important for me because this will be my business next year, so traffic will correlate with financial success. Similarly, I know that publishing sporadically on my personal blog is OK cause it is not at all a moneymaker and doesn’t need traffic to succeed. So it’s a matter of knowing who your audience is or what type of audience you want to cultivate.

@Pied_Pfeffer , Thank so much for sending me the link! I was browsing around the page I think it’s awesome! That’s were I’ll be spending most of my time now:) I love doing nail art:):):)

@CherrySempai , Actually now coming to think of it, I think that it’s a good idea if I don’t write everyday.

@dynamicduo , wow! That was a really long answer but it was worthy reading:D
Well all my audiences, we have something in common, and that’s make up.
I do the blog to help people, I don’t think that I’ll ever make a blog to get paid from…

I have a couple of blogs but I only write in them when I have something interesting to say.

I find most blogs pretty boring. Try posting pictures of Daisy Fuentes.

Many of my blog contacts go to sites with titles like “What kind of Ice Cream are you?” on the http://www.gotoquiz.com/ site which has a quiz for every interest and can make for a fun game. Ask each of your contacts to participate, and to provide entertainment for the rest of you to share. It can become a lot of fun.

I’d like to visit your blog !

As to whether you should write every day or every so often, some people advise to write frequently at the beginning, like dynamicduo mentioned he did with one of his/her blogs, but I definitely agree with cherrysempai that the best thing you can do is be more realistic and post less frequently but with more useful content. In my opinion, you should plan to post once a week or twice a week if you think that your content will be better. It also depends on the length of your posts, you could cut a topic in two, as well, maybe even leave people in suspense. Some people recommend keeping posts between 300–500 words.
I read a few pages with advice about the same topic because I was interested in it too one of them was really useful about stressing links (such as diggit, delicious, technorati, etc.) I can´t find the link to this page but it also mentioned placing a sitemeter, listing it in topblogsites, bloggernity, blog catalog, and of course on the yahoo google msn ask and altavista search engines.
Here is some more info: http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Create-A-Successful-Blog. Another: http://www.web2whizzing.com/create-successful-blog/writing-tips/ Another: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/using-social-media-to-inspire-your-writing/ and http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/04/26/how_to_write_a_successful.htm