How Writers Can Tackle the Readers' Shrinking Attention Span

To start off with, an effective headline would be exigent! Keep your headline a bit predictable, but not too revealing. Smartly frame the headline that will make the readers do nothing but dive into the content! The headline should be Useful, Urgent, Unique and Ultra-Specific.

Become a percipient of Search Engine Optimization. Single out keywords for a subject and try to embed them in your content to make it easily crawlable. The only strongest factor in Google rankings is the number and authority of the backlinking sites. So, stronger the website linking to you, stronger is your influence on Google, and better are the rankings.

Reading long text with heavy words will become wheels within wheels, right? Instead, words that we as readers can resonate to, will compel us to stay on a website wanting for more. So, speaking in the audience’s language will make writing more relatable and beneficial from the SEO perspective and general user engagement.

Telling Stories has now become a trend and the most powerful tool to grab attention! Google has taken the Snapchat introduced Stories to a higher level with Web Stories under the AMP project. These Stories have their hands full of potentials like buffer free pages that are visually enthralling and give an immersive tap-through experience to the readers!

Imagine your content ameliorated with enthralling visuals and transformed into a brand new Story with all the updated technicalities! Visual Stories is here to help you considering all the technical odds and ends to get Web Stories on your website with its “no-code solution”. So, jump on the Web Stories bandwagon and get into the world of short stories!

The readers’ attention span has reduced from 12 seconds to 8 seconds in the recent times. Considering this fact, the information your content has, should be as optimized as possible to help readers in their micro moments, making them stay on the website for more follow up.