A friend of mine just sent me a link to a blog that he has been helping out on asking for some advice. I just told him if he wants his readers to click away from his blog or close the page down then keeping it the way it is will be fine but to keep people interested means it has to be easy to read. His main mistake………….

It wasn’t his content there is nothing wrong with that he is a good and talented writer and will get barrow loads of traffic from people linking to his traffic, the problem was with the number of plugin’s he had installed in his Wordpress theme.

I have to say that I have been seeing it all too often in a number of bloggers who think that they are helping their readers by linking every third word out to somewhere else. It doesn’t help it is a real turn off in my opinion. I know there are thousands of plugin’s available but be sensible you want people to pay attention to what you want to say not get lead off to the local pizza place because you named the town you live in!

Think about what you want people to do on your blog and make sure that they enjoy their experience and that way they will come back time and time again. If you get a good following of readers they will come back time and time again. So keep your content rich and your plugin’s to what is needed rather than what might be helpful, and if you are not sure you can try it then turn it off and uninstall it if it is no good!