First few lines of your blog post are most important

First few lines have the greatest impact on your visitors. Why? - First few lines of your article can either attract a visitor or make them skip your article. How? - There are more than just one factor that goes into making the first few lines of your blog post the most important section of your post. Let’s go through the factors one by one.

1. First few lines of your post is what visitors would see when they find your blog post’s link in search engine’s results. If you have some catchy words included in the first few lines, chances of a user visitor clicking on your result link would be much higher than the link of some other website ranking higher than yours.

2. Some RSS readers show the starting few lines of your post in a preview mode when a user hovers their mouse on your blog post link. A user can either decide to open the feed url and read your post or mark it as a read item if the post excerpt is not enticing enough.

3. Blog syndication networks which further distributes your content to wide variety of websites often relies on the first few lines of your blog post to either include your post for distribution or skip it. Even editors of those websites that use the blog syndication services and go through literally hundreds of posts quickly judge your post’s inclusion by just looking at the first few lines of your article.

4. If your article’s content is enticing, people link to it and most often use the first few lines of your article while linking to your content from their blogs. The readers of those blogs will then look at the those first few lines to click on your link and visit your blog.

5. First few lines or the first para has a significant impact on the search engine optimization of your blog. Ideally, it’s advisable to include the keywords in the first few lines that you want to target in search engines. Those first few lines are visible in search engine results from your site and visitors find it enticing to click on your link and visit your blog. Every visitor is a potential subscriber to your blog. Isn’t it?

What are you waiting for? Make sure that you follow these guidelines from your very next post onwards towards your maximum advantage.

Tags: Blogging Tips, Keywords, RSS Reader, Blog Promotion, Search Engine, Optimization