{"id":4090,"date":"2007-08-05T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/conduct-an-about-page-audit\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:48:24","slug":"conduct-an-about-page-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/conduct-an-about-page-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Conduct an About Page Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-course\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/problogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/building-a-better-blog-2.jpg?resize=265%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"167\" width=\"265\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"21\" vspace=\"10\" align=left alt=\"Building-A-Better-Blog-2\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Today your task in the <a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/31-days-to-build-a-better-blog-course\/\">31 Day Project<\/a> here at ProBlogger (this is Day 5) is to Conduct an About Page Audit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the key pages on a blog is the <strong>about page<\/strong>. This page is often used by new readers to a blog to gather information about you and your blog and based upon what they find on this page they could be making a decision as to whether they&#8217;ll subscribe to  your blog or not.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a result, your About Page is a <strong>key conversion page<\/strong> on your blog and it therefore needs to be reworked regularly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a result it&#8217;s essential that you provide up to date, useful and well written information on this page.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInclude compelling reasons for people to keep tracking with your blog and provide them with the means to do so within the content (RSS, newsletter etc).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTake some time today to do an audit of your About Page. What does it communicate? 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