Every time I start a new blog, the first thing I always work with is the theme. Although most bloggers will disagree with me but I personally believe that your blog’s layout (theme/template) should be the first thing you need to fix before you start making your posts. This does not mean however that your content is secondary to your layout, it’s just that when you start a new blog, fixing your theme should be your top priority.
Today’s post answers the question why there is a need to invest in your blog’s theme, why it should be your top priority when starting your blog and why you should have it fixed before you start publishing your articles.
Satisfied Blogger Equals Productive Blogger
When you start your blog and you are not happy or satisfied with your theme, your productivity is adversely affected. Bloggers who are productive are usually those who are motivated, which is generally attributed to their satisfaction and confidence with their blogs. Confidence and satisfaction, especially when you just started your blog is best achieved with a well-designed theme to your liking.
Chances are, you will spend tremendous amount of your time tweaking your blog, while at the same time, worrying about your next posts. Chances are, you don’t feel confident with your blog because it looks the same to a number of other blogs or you don’t think that your blog theme is appropriate to your blog topic. Whatever makes you unsatisfied with your blog definitely affects the quality of your post and your productivity in general.
The need to use an appropriate theme for your blog that satisfies your requirements is a must for every bloggers because satisfaction comes with confidence and motivation. Ultimately, confidence and motivation makes a bloggers productive.
Weblogs Are Judged Initially By Their Themes
The theme, layout or design of a blog is the first thing noticed by your visitors. It’s the first aspect of your blog that your visitors notice, hence, the first thing judged.
A theme speaks a lot about the blog and the blogger. Usually, first time visitors don’t stay if they come across blogs that are not organized. Whether your content is valuable, most of your visitors will judge it based on their first impression. Their first impression in most cases is based on the visual impact of your blog’s theme and layout.
Start Optimizing Your Blog For Search Engines With Your Blog Theme
There are still a lot of bloggers who don’t know that their blog themes can be optimized for search engines. Themes that are not optimized for search engines are usually created by web designers / template designers with no background whatsoever of SEO. As a result, their designs may be visually appealing but is not search engine friendly. Thus, reducing potential traffic from search engines.
If you would like to optimize your blog for search engines and get quality boundless free traffic, then perhaps you can start your SEO with your blog theme. Actually, the first step when optimizing a blog is to first optimize its theme and layout.
Well Designed Blog Brings More Opportunities
It’s been proven that a blog that started with a well-designed blog theme receives twice as much opportunities than those who haven’t invested anything on their themes. With a well-designed blog, you get:
- More offers from advertisers.
- Better opportunities to monetize your blog.
- Higher subscription rate from your visitors.
- Higher traffic from search engines (SEO’d Blog Theme).
- Lower bounce rate and higher visitor retention rate.
- And many more…
Considering the benefits of a well-designed blog theme to your satisfaction, did you invest in your blog theme? Are you satisfied with your theme? Or if you think that a blog’s theme is not really important, I would love to hear your ideas why. Do share your comments and reactions in the comment.
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