Fantastic article! I love the bit about using different font styling! I always notice that!

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A great article, Alex! I especially agree with your point about using an appropriate, vivid image at the beginning of each blog post. I use Flickr’s Creative Commons images in many of my posts. I also find that when I share my posts via my Facebook fan page, my readers are more prone to click on those links if the picture intrigues/attracts them.

Love your writing style. Keep up the great work!

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Depending on the post, it usually only takes a few minutes. The basic premise is that you have to answer the question, “Why should I spend 5 minutes to read this?” If your intro doesn’t answer that, then they’ll probably go elsewhere.

By the way, I need to give credit to Copyblogger for the formula . I meant to in the original comment, but there was a sudden distraction.
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Sure, I don’t know that I’d have gone to the trouble for a drop cap, either, but in my case, having a callout turn into a random paragraph stuffed in the middle of a post was a little awkward.

In any event, I think it’s worth keeping in mind that formatting tricks that look great on your web site might not end up looking so hot for subscribers.

Thanks for the great article.
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I thought it was pretty funny. I actually got it out of this little calendar I have on my desk. Every day, there’s another stupid quote on it. Today’s was:

Warning: Do not use heat gun as a hair dryer

So inspiring.

And the drop caps, yes, you can do that. But, it won’t work in IE6ish as most pseudo classes don’t work in that horrid browser anyways.

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What is it they say…? No more than 3 fonts on a design? 4? Some number like that, but I hate seeing an abundance of fonts in a design….and your content just isn’t the place to be messing around with things like that.

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That sounds smart Jarrod, how do you think opening like that has worked out for you?

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I love asking questions in headlines, but you can’t do it all of the time. So, what other methods do you use?

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I spend more time than I need to on images sometimes, but I think it pays off. I know a lot of people like the images I find.

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