IPD: 2(c) How do readers perceive blog credibility & how do you build credibility for your blog?

There are millions of blogs in this world and the sad truth is when someone visits a blog, they decide whether they should read or run in a few seconds. Thus credibility will play a vital role in whether your blog is successful or not. Reference.com stated qualities that make up what is known as credibility include the education or experience to back up one's claims of expertise. It is something that is earned and acquired over time. Credibility is more like a linear scale on which others give you a rating. How do readers perceive blog credibility? It will depend what elements from your blog is attractive enough to catch their attention stop by, whether is your interesting stories, your expertise, your blog design, or you have such information/facts that worth their time to read, and etc.

It is important to build qualities that will make people visit to your blog again. The quality can be based on numbers of elements. The writing skills and design of blog is vital. For example, some writers write it in a way that able to create sense of humor even is expressing in the form of text. Besides, title of the blog post must be catchy to grab one shot look attention. Also, writer who writes about fact and truth will create more credibility as readers expect a lot of honesty with product information, brands, issues, what they usually can’t see from the magazine or news. Futhermore, a blog with nice and unique design certainly caught people attention to stop by and further take a look of your content. In addition, you can provide links to other community at the side of your blog to allow readers have the options of reading other popular blogs other than yours. We can also provide a chat box for discussion. Chatbox does perceived blog credibility. Sometimes even a reader didn’t drop a comment to your blog, they still tend to take a look of what people have talked about in the discussion box.