12 Most Important Features a Blog Should Have

Web logs are important online journals on internet characterized by distinct features and most company websites should have a blog extension. Blog engagement, success, visibility and reputation depend on the most important features you have decided that they should appear on your blog. These blog features give the most important reasons for their presence in terms of call for actions like commenting, spreading the word, search and sorting blog posts and content. This post highlights the most important features your blog should have in order to stand out among the million blogs we have today

1) Recent Post Feature

This is widget or plug-in that will help your blog to feature most recent posts to your readers. Since blog posts are arranged in a way that latest appears first. This will acts as a guide for the reader to find fresh and new content on your blog.

2) Popular Post Feature

This is one of the most important widget or plug-in your blog should have because it shows the visitors the most viewed blog posts. Posts become popular on a blog due to the number of views.  You the blogger should have this feature in place to help the visitors or readers know which blog post is making headlines.

3) A Blog Tag or Label

Tag or label is a keyword or keyword phrase in a block that do add links to all blog posts tagged with in a period of time. This blog feature helps to importantly describe and sort posts by use of keywords         or keyword phrases that will always form links when created. This helps the reader to know where blog posts fall with the use of keywords and what the posts under the linked keyword phrase are.

4) Blog Category

Word Press blogs are the ones mainly having feature. This feature allows the blogger to sort posts in topic hence making easier reader and web log owners search for old posts. Categories help in bringing an organized inventory of blog content.

5) Blog Archive

A must have and important feature for every blog that will sort all blog entries from the newest to the oldest by month and year. This feature should be able to show the reader what posts were published in a given month. Therefore it stores posts for reading purposes.

6) RSS Feeds

Real simple syndication (RSS) feed is one of the most important features every web (publishing) platform is having today. RSS feeds are web formats that help publishers to syndicate content over the web. Instead of a reader visiting your blog, he/she can opt-in for your blog feed that will keep him posted on new content. This feature is important when it comes to building loyal subscribers that will always interact with content. Examples of feed RSS feed reader include Google feedburner.

 7) Search Feature

This is a mist feature every blog and even website should have. It plays an important role of a gate find for specific content on the entire blog hence embracing user experience.

8) Social Media Platforms

New media is selling like a hot cake. The blog publisher should integrate social media platforms in the blog so that is easy for the reader share and spread the word across most social networks.

9) Subscription Form

This is a blog feature that should help the reader or visitor to opt in for your blog updates by submitting in his/her email to feed readers and email marketing softwares like MailChimp. This saves time in a way that instead of checking a blog for new post, all new posts and dropped in the reader’s inbox each time they are published.

10) Comment System

It is important that your blog should have this feature in the era of web 2.0 that is read/write the web. It helps most impressed blog readers to leave remarks, bring out you ideas through comments, criticize and create conversation between a reader and the publisher.

11) Comment Spam Filters

This blog feature plays an important role for blog owners and administrators when it comes to spam attacks and issues. Spam protection platforms and filters like Akismet for Word Press block most spam attacks in form of comments. It is recommended that you should weed out spam comments manually because spam filters have proved not to be that perfect as I thought.

12) Contact Form

This feature is mostly used for networking and connecting purposes by the reader on the blog. Readers may use the contact form to ask questions, share important remarks privately, for partnerships, guest blogging etc. This is a must have feature and should not miss on your blog because its one way readers can reach you directly concerning most issues on your web log.

The above are some of the most important features your blog should have regardless of the blogging platform or type. These features help in blog growth and plans. If your important blog feature lacks in this post, it will be wise of you to leave it in comments.
That’s it for now, feel free to Add-on, comment and criticize where possible. Thank You.