Money From Blogging

You need not be an UI expert to be a blogger!

But UI plays a very important role in giving the fist impression to your first time visitors. And remember, all visitors to your blog were a first time visitors, once. So, UI plays an important roles in converting first time visitors to a reader, and than a regular visitor.

Even if you may have a very good article or a content, if the UI (User Interface) is not appealing enough, the blog visitor may not scroll down your blog! Yes, Scroll Down is the word!

You need to think of your blog broadly into two section,
a. Non Scrolling Home page : The area of the home page your blog which is visible to a blog visitor without scrolling! This area is very important!
b. Scrolling Home Page area : This is whole home page below the Non Scrolling Area.

I recommend, one must put interesting Contents, Links, Images, Article Excerpts or anything which will entice the visitor to click on those links, articles and also scroll down!

Normally, people look at the right side for search, useful links, so put those at right side. If you are using Wordpress, try to use theme that has at least one column at the right side where you can use important and interesting widget.

Non scrolling Home Page should hold two recent posts with some excerpts. This will give better idea to the visitor about quality of contents of the blog. Anyone searching internet for any information is already an intelligent person, so he would immediately understand by glancing at those two posts, he would expect by scrolling down!

So, main importance should be given to Non Scrolling Home page while organizing your blog.