If you are planning to start a blog or even if you have a blog at present, check out some of its usability issues which are quite important for successful blogging. This is a check done on the prospective of your readers, just to ensure that they find your blog very convenient to use.There are many blog designs which do not have scope for author biographies. Readers often wish to know about the person who is writing the blog, about his credentials and whether the person can at all be reliable. Thus, about us page or the author bio is an important section of any web blog. Web blogs which restrict author bio also do not provide the scope for author photo. This is also an important part as the author photo offers a personal impression of the author. It acts as a way of connection between the virtual and physical world of a blogger.

Authors usually do not follow the guidelines for writing in the web so that their content is scannable. It is important to have descriptive headlines for your blog so that your blog is well scanned by search engines. Research shows that readers often just scan through the headline and read the article only when they find the headline catering to their interest.

Many bloggers know the usability of links but do not know how to use the link. When readers find a link, they are not sure where the link shall take them to. It is good to provide some predictive information in the anchor text, so that the readers know that they are going to find something useful when they link the link.

You can easily mix different topics in your blog, but remember that you should not lose the focus of your blog post. If this happens, you will slowly start losing those readers who have specific interest in those topics. Do not bury your blogs which have been popular in the past. You should never archive them. You should highlight some of these evergreen blogs in the navigation system and place links directly. This way your readers can go through the blogs as many times as they want.