A blogger’s first and fore most
demand is to get more traffic, more dedicated readers. Here I will discuss how
to encourage your traffic to stay in your blog. Good content is the King of the
blog no doubt but if your blog is not reader friendly reader may not come back to your blog. I’ve
put together 12 ways to compel your visitors to stay.
Whether you’re looking to increase
your readers loyalty, improve your website’s accessibility and friendliness, or
build a community these tips will help you achieve your goals.
1. Simplify
your websites navigation - You should focus on the most
important elements of your website and display those in your navigation and
eliminate the rest.
It can be very confusing and
annoying to make visitors click on everything.
Your navigation should give them
clear direction to what your site is about and how to navigate it.
2. Choose
an engaging color scheme – Your website should have two or
three primary colors that stand out.
You want to break your content
apart and allow your audience to see your website as different sections of
content
Don’t overdo it though. Too many
colors can turn visitors away as quickly as it can entice them stay.
3. Use
images to break up the content and add personality – Images
have a way of speaking to people the way that words never can.
Use images to convey emotion and
draw your audience in.
4. Make
your websites header (logo) and tagline stand out – It’s one of
the first things a visitor sees on your site and can make your site look either
professional or glued and pasted together.
Your headline and tagline should be
clean and clearly display what your website is about.
5.
Add more calls to action – A call to action is simple and often
only a sentence long.
Ask people to comment, twitter your
post or take some other action.
Whatever you decide to do get them
in the habit of taking action.
In fact don’t forget to comment at
the end of this post
6.
Create strong, emotional headlines – Other than your posts
picture your headline is immensely important.
If your posts title doesn’t get any
attention readers aren’t likely to click on your little read more icon.
In fact they will probably ignore
your post all together.
7 . Simplify
your readability – While your content may make perfect sense to
you it doesn’t mean your reader gets it.
Most readers want the information
they are looking for to be easy to read, highly memorable, and easily
accessible.
8. Offer
more at the end of your post – Your post was absolutely
amazing, now what?
Did you add a related posts
section, a call to action or a request to comment?
If you want people to stay engaged
give them more of what they want, or they’ll find it somewhere else.
9. Use
sub headlines to break up your content – Most readers like to
skim content. I know I do, and I bet you’ve done it too.
If your writing a long post or
speaking on multiple topics break your content up with bold, larger, or
different color sub headlines.
You’ll please the skimmers and the
loyal audience, and most likely get more return traffic.
10. Change
your content or change your audience - Your content may be
great, monumental even, but if your audience isn’t reading it then you may need
to change your audience or change your content.
If they’ve already heard your
content a million times over by everyone else, then you need to teach it to an
audience that hasn’t heard it as much and wants to learn it.
Or create fresh and new content for
your existing audience.
The reason teachers have students
is because students don’t know as much as their teachers.
If they did then we’d have no
schools.
You need to find fresh minds to
grow and build relationships with, which brings me to my next tip.
11.
Create a monthly post questionnaire – You know it all don’t
you? I know I do (just kidding
Writing a post every month or so
and asking your audience what’s most important to them will do wonders for your
blog or business.
It’s about as direct as you can
get.
Ask them to comment about what’s on
their minds, what they need the most help with, and what they think you can do
better.
It will help you uncover topics,
and idea’s you’ve never thought of “guaranteed!”
12.
Build relationships with peers – We all love the A list
bloggers, but building relationships with those that are at the same level as
us is a great way to gain additional insights, followers, and contributors.
It helps you expand your reach, get
your name into the blogosphere, and become known.
One of the best things about
sharing idea’s with those in your niche is the motivation that you get.
It helps you reshape your thinking
and build new principles to help you reach success.
If these tips have helped you than
please contribute in the comment section with your own tips.
I’m sure it will not only help me
improve, but help those that read your comments as well.
Your participation is just as important as this
post! Thanks again, and have a great week
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