Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Many bloggers only set up an About page as an afterthought. Someone said, “Hey! You need an About page” so they create one and add a few lines about their blog, their reason for blogging and what they like to do when they’re not blogging. But if you understand the mindset of the visitor who looks for your About page you’ll see it deserves much more attention.

Unless you’re sharing that specific link, very few of your visitors will land on your About page when they come to your blog. Most will either land on an individual post or your homepage. After reading your post, and maybe checking out a few more, your visitor might be so impressed that he decides to check out your About page. So it’s important to understand that visitors who go to your About page are already sold on your blog, otherwise they wouldn’t take the time to try to learn more about you – they’d just leave your blog....