How to make your blog look professional

Blogging Tips

Your blog need a professional look no matter what is the content in your blog.I know your content is very important but without a good look of your blog or website, it just doesn't give that taste you want your readers to get.

Blogging is getting popular day by day.the top most blogging platforms are - Blogger and Word press. Both are good for newbies but Blogger is a bit simpler then Word press and I recommend Blogger for newbies I will share a few tips that you must apply to your blog that will give a better professional look to it.

Pages you should add to your blog:

Lets start with the pages you must add to your blog.Following are the pages;

• Privacy Policy:

       Privacy policy of your blog is very important.You should add a separate page (stand alone pages) for this.In privacy policy you.In privacy policy you discloses some or all of the ways party gather and manages a clients data.If you want to apply for Google adsense you should must have Privacy Policy.
      I have an article on How to create a privacy policy for your blog, read my article, its easy to create but very important.

• Contact us/me :

        Another page you would need is contact us page.If you are writing unique and useful articles on your blog but don't have any contact info, its just not fair.Your readers/viewers of your blog want to know about you so you should give them some info about how can they contact. You can give your email address, Google+ and Facebook id.

• Disclaimer:

        In disclaimer you let your viewers/readers know about your responsibility and their responsibility and give information about the content of your blog, like how you got this info or images, and you wouldn't be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with your blog/site.Check out disclaimer of this blog, so that you get some idea about it Click here.

Design/Template :

Design or template of your blog should be simple not much fancy.Simple means that it should be user friendly and they can get to any part of your blog easily.It should not slow down your blog/site loading time.

Favicon : 

Favicon is important to give your blog a professional look.It represent your blog.In the following screenshot you can see my blog favicon.

You must have noticed the impression that you get, from blogs with their own favicon and blogs not having their own favicon.It really gives a good look to your blog.

 Remove useless gadgets :

  Your blog don't need to be full of gadgets.It does slow down your blog loading time.First thing you should do is to remove all those useless gadgets.There are a few useful gadgets like +1 button, logo, labels, popular posts etc.

Use images :

Use images in your articles etc.Images will give a better look to your content.But do not use it too much after all your written content is more important than images.Be careful of copyright images, you can use public domain images or from free stock.

Connect to social media:

Facebook and Twitter are the most popular social media platforms.You should be active on such platforms and add a Facebook or twitter  gadget to your blog to let your viewers follow on those platforms too.

Have fun bloggers!
Feel free to ask questions