Life Lessons of a Military Spouse blog chronicles a woman's adventures as a military spouse while living overseas in Europe. She utilizes her posts to deliver tips and insights for others stationed in Europe that want to travel and sight see. She uses a healthy mix of text, photos, and links to outside blogs and sites. Her style of writing is easy to read and follow while enticing you to continue to read more. I spent at least 45 minutes on her blog reading the different posts, following links, and returning back to her blog. At the end, I wanted to travel Europe and asked my husband if he could retire there!
In my opinion, a blog must have a developed form that is easy to follow and navigate. If a blog's content is not organized and posts are hard to find readers will loose interest and not revisit the blog. A blogger should state the function or purpose of the blog at the beginning, whether as a subtitle or in the 'About' section. This way readers know up front what kind of content they will receive and is a great place to embed SEO (search engine optimization) key words/phrases. Utilizing SEO will bring more unique readers to a blog. The substance of this particular blog, "Life Lessons of a Military Spouse" is great. There are a lot of posts and the blogger posts frequently. She writes 'To Do or Top 10' posts on the blog along with stories about her families adventures. Good substance balances the need to put in facts and research with writing fluidly so readers follow. Everything in this blog is based on her knowledge and experiences, but when necessary the blogger attributes outside sources that have added to the content. A blogger should use outside sources or guest writers on their blog to keep content diversified while bringing in new readers that may have never found their blog otherwise.
I enjoyed searching through various blogs for this assignment. I read blogs about politics, finances, marketing practices, and journal blogs. This one grabbed my attention because it was enjoyable to read and not flooded with hard facts, numbers, and quotes. Sometimes we all need to take a step back from hard facts and enjoy the lighter side to life - daydreaming about traveling the world.
To view this blog, visit: http://lifelessonsmilitarywife.com
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