Ending up like a boss, with a strong conclusion helps more than what you think!
Readers come to your blog, impressed by your catchy headline.
They continue to read. Next to the title, they read your awesome introduction.
Then comes the mainstream content. You explain the epic things about the topic on which your blog post is. Of course, you include captivating images.
As you can notice that, I have almost all of the above things in my previous blog posts.
The last thing that comes is conclusion. It’s the last part, the great opportunity to seal the stamp with your blog name on the readers’ mind.
The importance of great strong conclusions is often underrated. However great conclusions have the real potential to convert your readers into whatever you like.
The conclusion is the only section that you get to cover up your mistakes in your blog post. If you have a great ending, readers neglect about your previous mistakes in the blog post.
Let’s get started…
Match your conclusion to their mental state
Before writing conclusion ask yourself a question; what would be the mental state of the reader who read my blog post till now. Is there any chances of them deciding anything? Is their way of thinking will be changed? What impact will my blog post have on my readers’ mind?
Write the answers to these questions in your conclusion. Matching up the conclusion to that of your readers’ state of mind, you create the bond between you and your readers. Your readers think that theirs and yours thinking is same.
The probability of them coming back to your blog, looking for some new blog posts in your blog will be higher.
In other terms conclusion is the best opportunity to shout out to your readers: “I have the same thinking style as yours”
In a nutshell…
In other words, it is nothing but the wrap up or takeaways.
Just give a summary of your entire blog post. If you cannot express what you ought to explain in 500 words, then do it at least in 50 words.
While giving a summary of your entire blog post in a paragraph, make sure that you don’t repeat things that are already there in the blog post. Be concise, be short.
Writing the essence of the entire blog post at the conclusion is both SEO friendly and user-friendly. As far as SEO is concerned, including the main keyword in the conclusion helps a lot.
End with a quote
Ending the conclusion with a quote works great. Quote speaks louder than text! Effective great quotes have an everlasting impact on readers’ minds.
After reading the quote, readers think about it. They think about using its message in their life. They find the inner meaning in it.
The best place to find quotes to include in your conclusion is BrainyQuote. You can search for the quotes based on category. Some of the categories are Inspirational, Motivational, Funny, Positive, Life, etc.
Choosing the best quote to end your blog post, is unto you.
Spark up a question
Including question is the best way to get more comments on every blog post to publish. The readers who came to your blog to read and post a comment may not be able to decide what to comment.
In conclusion section, you can help out the readers to comment on your blog by asking them a question like:
“That’s about me, what tools you use?”, Let me know in the comments.
The readers who finish completed reading your blog post, come across this question. It motivates them to leave comments on your blog post.
Subscribe and share
Ask them to share the blog post. Includes blog sharing button at the bottom of the blog post. It is especially important to include the buttons at the bottom of the post, because as soon as the readers finished reading your blog post they tend to share blog posts.
Ask them to subscribe. Do mention the benefits or offers they get from subscribing to your blog. Mention the benefits to obtain in a magnetic way.
Related resources
This is the great way to guide your readers where to go after reading the current blog post.
Including related resources blog posts, helps to reduce the bounce rate and increase on page user interaction in your blog. By linking out to more detailed resources or references, readers will be definitely thankful for you.
Why not give readers a provision, to learn more, if they liked your blog post?
Included related resources at the end of the post is a great strategy. Including related posts in the middle of the posts may be sometimes be disturbing for your readers. They may skip over to the linked resource without reading the current blog post completely.
Let them learn more about the topic from external resources. Link to the white papers and other in-depth articles to let them explore further.
Ask readers to take next actions
So what is your blog post about? What can readers do after reading this blog post?
Suppose if your blog post is about writing strong conclusions, then ask them to start digging up old blog posts and optimize conclusions accordingly.
Explain them what’s the point of the blog post, what they can learn, what they need to implement straightaway and what are the takeaways.
You should convince your readers that, by reading this blog post they have earned some knowledge. Make them feel that: “This blog is worth visiting again in the future”.
Future blog post
If you have already had an idea of what to blog in next blog post, then it’s a great idea to include the topic of the next blog post in the conclusion of the current blog post. It increases the curiosity of the readers.
They keep on visiting your blog waiting for the next blog post. Even they may subscribe, to get notified of the new blog posts.
By this you can increase returning visitors to your blog posts. However, remember that for all this to happen, you should have high quality blog posts.
Tids bits
- Some ideas for conclusion titles: Wrap up, final words, in the end, takeaways, in the nutshell, conclusion, over to you, What next, Summing up, Piling up, take home, pack up time, stick these stuff, etc…
- Always include call to action.
- Be cool, use cool words.
- Be personalistic.
- Address your readers, “YOU”. Point a finger at them.
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What next?
The stronger ending of the blog posts is a surefire way to get returning visitors to your blog post. They make an everlasting impression on the minds of your readers. If you have not included great, strong conclusions in your previous blog posts then do optimize them.
Identify the blog posts that are getting more traffic daily in Google Analytics. Those posts should be the first priority for you to optimize for better conclusion.
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