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How to Write Better Blog Posts

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At the beginning of the month I suggested that we spring clean or "pimp" our family history blogs. I tidied my blog up - design-wise - and am much happier with the look.  The font is bigger.  The background is light.  I think it looks much cleaner.  I hope it is much easier to read. I've been looking at my stats and created a score card  to analyse my top three blog posts of all time. I used Hemingway App and Wordle as tools for analysis.  My score card and analysis tool is here .  Please use it to analyse your family history posts if you think it's useful. My top scoring blog post in Google Terms and number of page-views was this one.    This post scored 2767 page views.   My headline was 11 words long. The optimal length is 6 words according to this author .  The post had only one picture and was 776 words long.  The optimal words length for a post according to Kevan Lee is 1600 words and according to this post ...