Money From Blogging

The area after a blog post in a blog is very important. This is a area where a reader stops scrolling down, pause and think, “I have read the article, what do I do now ?” And this is precisely why this area is important. One may ‘help’ or ‘guide’ the reader what he should do after completion of reading the blog post.

According to me, here are the options one must provide to readers :-

1. If one is monetizing with his blog, put an advertise here. If the readers liked your article, he may consider further reading about the topic in the article and link any link which shows similar topic. Here Google AdSense comes in handy as it displays related topics in its advertisements.

2. If you are not exactly monetizing, then you may put option to promote and bookmark the article in different social bookmarking sites. This will help popularizing your article as well as build link and reputation.

3. Immediately after this, one should display related posts of the blog. This will help the reader find more topics related to the current article. It will keep the reader on your blog for more time and he would grow more respectful about your blog for its rich and useful contents.

4. I think a short introduction of the author should be given here. It helps the reader remember the author name.

5. User should be given an option to get email updates, email subscription options to get updates of your blog. This will increase your email subscribers, RSS readers.

6. Finally, user should be given option to comment on the article. Comments are wonderful way of networking and discussing with your readers. With comments, you can judge, how readers view about your articles. Readers may give some useful hints about the topic which may get you an idea for a another pillar post! Please write clearly about your comment policy as well as what benefits they may get by commenting on your blog. You should always encourage your readers to comment on your blog.

So, these are the 6 things one should implement in the area just below the end of the post to make blog more user friendly, optimised for monetizing, usability and visitor friendly. CopyBlogger has one of the best post-end area I have ever seen.