There is a reason why you see more text on this blog than graphics. The reason is dazzling graphics will never make you money. Also text properly distributed across the site, helps in eye ball navigation as well as search engine indexing.

A combination or good graphics + appealing font + helpful navigation can make an average blog look stunning. This blog is a small step in that direction for achieving perfection.

I have met all kinds of blog designers over the years and personally read about 1000+ blogs on a daily basis. Through all this I have come to learn that all successful blogs use a “functional format”

What do I mean by a functional format?

• Inverted Pyramid Writing:

  One of the easiest, and most readable, forms of writing one can use is called the “inverted pyramid”. This style is characteristic of newspapers. The basic idea is that the reader should, from your first sentence, be able to ascertain what the entire article is generally about. If they want to know more, they can read the entire article. The specifics of the article should be of diminishing importance as the article progresses. This article, in fact, is written in that format.

  Sports writers are some of the best writers out there. One of their conventions can be very challenging, and rewarding, for the writer: telling the story backwards. Some sports writers will start an article about a particular game at the end and work their way to the beginning. It’s a very impressive feat when it’s done correctly and a very enjoyable way for readers to take in your writing.

  A strong “lead” is as important to blog writing as it is to any other literary form. Your first sentence is your most important sentence. Make sure it grabs the reader’s attention, informs them of what the article is about and entices them to read further. Good newspaper stories, great novels and short stories almost always start with a sentence that almost forces the reader to dig deeper into the body of the story.

  The very basic concepts of writing, of course, always apply. If you’re going for a journalistic or scientific feel, remember to always reference where you got your information and, if possible, to link it via hypertext. Your paragraphs should have a topic sentence and should focus on defining and expounding upon that thought. Punctuation should be sophisticated and correct. Too many writers “dumb down” their online entries by skipping such wonderful linguistic tools as semi-colons, colons and dashes. The English language allows its writers to engage in some of the most colorful language in the world. Learn how to use the tools with which your language is equipped and use them.

• Implicit Optin

  An implicit opt-in is something where by the visitor is compelled to drop the contact details, in other words have no choice but fill the damn form automatically, again not by any forced means(pop-ups, pop-unders, lightboxes or anything of that nature). A good offer is the foundation for an implicit optin.

  My offer to you on this blog is to show you how you can make $10k in 30 days. That’s pretty powerful if you are trying to lean how to make money online. This blogs core focus is to teach people how to make money online. An implicit optin has less to do where the optin code is placed, it could be on the top of the blog it could be on the right panel. But the point is getting attention is not the primary objective, its getting the user to take action.

  There is a reason why my optin box pops up on the footer. 44% non-intrusive conversion.. Amazing isn’t it?

• Gap Elimination With Triggers

  How do you handle the space in between blog posts has a lot to do with your blog’s success, something many bloggers don’t talk about. Some just run adsense ads or some other affiliate offers. Some place a few social bookmarking icons. So what really works?

  In my observation my best adsenese revenue was generated by placing the adsense code in between posts. I experimented this on my personal blog www.SriniSaripalli.com. On this blog I placed “Subscribe To My RSS” as a trigger with “Tell A Friend” box to create some viral effect. How well it works I don’t know, but testing is on.

Try these triggers and let me know if you don’t make money.

Happy Blogging!