Bloggers are often doubting whether to focus on a blog post search engine optimization elements or just to have a blogging style that suits their blog readers by completely ignoring search engine traffic.

Can we have a win-win situation? Can a blog post be both reader-friendly and have the capabilities of pulling in search engine traffic for your blog? Yes, you can as everything is possible in blogging.

In today’s content creation tips, I will be giving you tips on how you can overcome this doubt and blog for both your readers and the search engine traffic stats of your blog.

Schedule for different blogging styles

You can’t have both search engine optimization and blog post readability at their best within a blog post. However, you can have both of them, implemented extensively in different blog posts. Try to have blogging weeks or days for full implementation of either search engine optimization or blog post readability and this will improve your blog as a whole, on capturing search engine traffic and satisfying your readers.

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Blog sidebars reconstruction tips were provided two weeks ago so that your blog sidebars can help to bring out the elements of your blog which you would like to show from now on but at the same time, keeping the risks of spoiling your blog design and causing frustrations to your readers low.

In this article, I will be giving out more tips on how you can maximize the utilization of your blog sidebars without having blog readers letting them out in the cold again.

Don’t Neglect Blog Sidebars

A blog needs to have at least one sidebar and even traditional static sites will normally have one. It is an undoubted fact that sidebar enhances navigation and provides more space to fulfils visitors’ information and visualization needs.

One of the reasons why blog visitors no longer pay much attention to blog sidebars is that most blog sidebars are not properly managed and as time passes by, the neglected sidebar will slowly flows into the blind spot of blog readers.

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I end the week with a small tweak to this blogging tips blog. I removed my Feedburner chicklet which is showing 142 at the time I am publishing this post. In my blogging resolutions for 2008, I aim to get more than 300 RSS subscribers at the end of the year but the low subscriber count showing on the chicklet is doing more harm than helping me to achieve my goal.

Don’t Boast RSS Count Too Early

I recommend bloggers to show the RSS chicklet after achieving at least 300 RSS subscribers. Showing off a low subscriber count will only flush out the thoughts of some new readers thinking of whether a subscription is worth. John Chow, in his recent interview with Alvin Phang, was quoted saying:

It is a psychological factor. If a shopping mall is empty, no one would dare to enter it. However, when one people walks in, everyone will follow.

Maki from Dosh Dosh revealed his RSS feed count only after he has more than 10,000 RSS subscribers. The response to that announcement was overwhelming because everyone was so curious about the figure until such a big one popped out.

More blogosphere buzz and blogging tips will be presented to you after the jump.

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